Meaning

4 senses

  1. (informal)An accordion or concertina.

    Quetsche, Quetschkasten, Quetschkommode

  2. A box with an adjustable opening used by cavers to practise crawling through tight spaces.

  3. A container that fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.

  4. Synonym of hugbox (“a therapeutic device”).

More definitions
  • a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
accordion, concertina:

Origin

From squeeze + box.

From squeeze + box.

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Forms

plural: squeeze boxes

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player:accordion

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsqueezeboxer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
squeegeesqueezeB2squelchsquid

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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