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box
1. verb To exchange punches with an opponent. I love to box and have been working on my right hook this week. Of course your mom hates that you box—you make a living by getting punched in the face! Have you ever boxed before? I hear it's a great cardio workout.
2. noun, slang A coffin. It was a bad car accident, but no one ended up in a box, thank goodness. Don't worry, boss. That rat will be in a box before he ever gets close to the police station. You're going to end up in a box if you keep driving so recklessly!
3. noun A very large portable radio or boombox. It can also be called a "ghetto box." There are so many kids in the neighborhood with boxes that I can barely hear myself think! The stereotypical image of hip hop in the '80s is a guy walking down the street with a huge box on his shoulder. When I was growing up, you could always count on somebody coming to the block party with a box and some great tunes.
4. noun A record player. My parents love playing their old records on the box. When I was your age, none of these portable devices were available to us—we could only play records on the box! Sounds like Grandpa put one of those old-timey love songs on the box upstairs.
5. noun An accordion. Can also be called a "squeeze box." Most polka music incorporates a box. Most kids his age want to play the drums or electric guitar, but he has always had a fascination with the squeezebox, of all things. My granddad could liven up any room just by picking up his box and playing some jaunty tune.
6. noun, rude slang The female genitals. He just seems so lecherous—I bet he's after your box. We're just friends, so I'm sure he doesn't want my box or anything.
7. noun, rude slang The male genitals, typically when covered by clothing. Yeah, I noticed his box—how could you miss it? A: "Check out that model walking down the runway." B: "Well, hello! He has quite a box, doesn't he?"
boxed
slang Dead. We did everything we could, but the patient boxed on the table during surgery. Her husband died young. I heard he boxed during some routine procedure. A: "She keeps putting off this appointment because she's scared of doctors." B: "Well, if she does nothing about this cancerous tumor, she'll definitely be boxed. At least seeing a doctor gives her a shot!"
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2024 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
boxed (up)
1. Sl. intoxicated. I am way boxed, and I feel sick. She got boxed up on gin.
2. Sl. in jail. I committed the crime, and I was boxed for a long time for it. Pat was boxed up for two days till we got bond money.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
box
verbSee ghetto blaster
box
verbSee squeeze-box
box
1. n. the genitals of the male, especially as contained within a garment, such as underwear. (Usually objectionable.) God, did you see the box on him?
2. n. the genitals of a female; the vagina considered as a container for the penis. (Usually objectionable.) He wants to get in her box.
3. n. a coffin. Put him in a box and put the box in a hole. Then the matter is closed.
4. n. a phonograph player. Yours is old! My box still has tubes!
5. n. a portable stereo radio. Does that damn box have to be so loud?
6. n. a piano. She sure can pound the devil out of that box!
7. in. to die. The old man looks like he’s going to box at any minute.
8. Go to (ghetto) box.
9. Go to (squeeze-)box.
boxed
verbSee boxed up
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boxed
mod. dead; died. (The box is possibly a coffin.) He’s boxed. There’s nothing that can be done.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- (as) dumb as a box of rocks
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- a bag/box of tricks
- a black box
- a box of birds
- a box of tricks
- a box on the ear
- a Pandora's box
- back in (one's) box
- back in your box
- be (the) first out (of) the box
- be a box of birds
- be boxed into a corner
- be first out of the box
- be knocked out of the box
- be not the brightest crayon in the box
- beat box
- black box
- boom box
- boombox
- box
- box (one's) ears
- box (oneself) into a corner
- box (someone) into a corner
- Box and Cox
- box clever
- box in
- box it out
- box of tricks
- box off
- box office
- box on the table
- box out
- box score
- box seat
- box somebody's ears
- box someone in
- box the compass
- box up
- boxed
- boxed in
- boxed on the table
- boxed up
- box-office bomb
- brain box
- buy the box
- chatterbox
- chocolate box
- come out of the box
- doc(s)-in-a-box
- doc-in-a-box
- docs-in-a-box
- does (exactly) what it says on the box
- eternity box
- eternity-box
- fuse box
- ghetto blaster
- ghetto box
- go home in a box
- groan box
- hotbox
- idea box
- idiot box
- in (a bit of) a jam
- in a (tight) corner
- in a bind
- in a box
- in a hole
- in a tight spot
- in the box seat
- in the wrong box
- inside the box
- joy box
- knock (someone) out of the box
- knock out of the box
- knowledge-box
- life is like a box of chocolates
- not the brightest crayon in the box
- not the sharpest tool in the box
- off (one's) box
- on (one's) soapbox
- on a soapbox
- open (a) Pandora's box
- open a Pandora's box
- open Pandora's box
- out of (one's) box
- out of the box
- out of your box
- outside (of) the box
- outside the box
- paint yourself into a corner
- Pandora's box
- penalty box
- play nice in the sandbox
- saucebox
- shadowbox
- squawk box
- squeezebox
- squeeze-box
- stuff the ballot box
- the goggle-box
- the idiot box
- think box
- think inside the box
- think out of the box
- think outside (of) the box
- think outside the box
- think-box
- thinking inside the box
- thought box
- thunderbox
- tick all the (right) boxes
- tinklebox
- watch the box