Meaning

4 senses
  1. An industrially prefabricated box made from cardboard, primarily used for packaging goods or materials and often recycled.

  2. A corrugated box.

  3. (Cockney, slang)Syphilis.

  4. (derogatory, slang, uncommon)Someone who is very dull and uninteresting.

    Near-synonyms: L7, square, stiff, robot, NPC

Examples

51 sentences
  1. Cardboard boxes rip easily.

    Картонні коробки легко рвуться. — deniko

  2. Tom looked in the cardboard box.

  3. Tom filled the room with cardboard boxes.

  4. Tom put everything in a cardboard box.

  5. I put it in a cardboard box.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
container:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
container:

Origin

The rhyming slang sense alludes to pox.

The rhyming slang sense alludes to pox.

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Forms

plural: cardboard boxes
Singularcardboard box
Pluralcardboard boxes

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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