shoebox
See also: shoe box
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shoebox (plural shoeboxes)
- The box in which shoes are sold.
- In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
- (derogatory) A small, cramped residence or similar space.
- 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249:
- She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.
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box in which shoes are sold
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