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  • verb Present participle of letterbox.
  • noun An outdoor hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes hidden in public places.

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Examples

  • I love the way Amanda has snuck in the Ticon letterboxing style, but totally made it her own.

    lyzbeth: Scary Kisses Pre-orders now open lyzbeth 2010

  • I setup the export option to maintain the 16: 9 by letterboxing the original video in to a 4: 3 video.

    Online videos drewan 2008

  • They find interests in many different things, such as helping the elderly, letterboxing when they have free time, rearranging the furniture at home, and decorating seasonally for their mother, entertaining, sewing and cooking, all which take enormous amounts of time.

    Archive 2008-10-01 2008

  • I forget where I was at the filmmaking point yesterday ... oh, the letterboxing.

    七夕おめでとう! Happy Tanabata! tragic_elegance 2008

  • They find interests in many different things, such as helping the elderly, letterboxing when they have free time, rearranging the furniture at home, and decorating seasonally for their mother, entertaining, sewing and cooking, all which take enormous amounts of time.

    Contentment 2008

  • I can't imaging letterboxing bringing 76x97 down to 28x58.

    IMAX Claims 98% Of Moviegoers Don’t Notice The Difference… Yeah, Right! | /Film 2009

  • It would have to perform with near-perfection: even if it turns out that it catches every single infringement except for video that is re-cut to 16: 9 with letterboxing at 31fps, then all the pirates will just encode it that way and evade the filter, meaning that the system would generate an unacceptable level of false negatives.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Otherwise you will have to rotate every movie by hand after you import it into iMovie - and then, of course, you'll have the black letterboxing along the sides.

    Shoot and Edit a Movie on The iPhone | /Film 2009

  • Zooming each page to play hide-and-seek by scrolling for text has proven unbearable, like pan-and-scan treatment of a film that demands letterboxing no slight to Ken Burns intended.

    Chicago Fashion 2009

  • Don†™ t add letterboxing to make videos to a 4: 3 aspect ratio.

    LifeHack’s 6 Tips to Improve Your Blog 2007

  • The general idea is that "letterboxing" will mask the window's real dimensions by keeping the window width and height at multiples of 200px and 100px during the window resize operation --generating the same window dimensions for all users-- and then adding a "gray space" at the top, bottom, left, or right of the current page.

    Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing | ZDNet Catalin Cimpanu 2019

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  • n. An outdoor hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes hidden in public places.

    When was this a thing?! Imagine finding a small box with a little, baby bilby inside.

    October 18, 2018

  • You should be so lucky.

    October 22, 2018

  • I've heard of kangaroo boxing... is this a marsupial thing?

    October 22, 2018

  • Sounds like geocaching

    October 22, 2018

  • MMA - Mixed Marsupial Arts - is apparently a thing.

    October 23, 2018