Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small box for pills.
- noun A woman's small hat with upright sides and a flat crown.
- noun A low-roofed concrete emplacement for a machine gun or antitank gun.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
box in whichpills are kept. - noun A flat, concrete
gun emplacement .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small round woman's hat
- noun a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)
- noun a small case for holding pills
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Examples
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She complains in pillbox about not being able to sit down and her hands getting clammy.
Archive 2007-08-26 2007
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She complains in pillbox about not being able to sit down and her hands getting clammy.
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This little princess was taken to a rather special old pillbox which is being kitted out as a Hilton for Bats.
Archive 2007-08-26 2007
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This little princess was taken to a rather special old pillbox which is being kitted out as a Hilton for Bats.
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Even though hospitals legally need to dispense medications from their own pharmacy through their own personnel, the pillbox is a great help to make sure the sick person doesn’t miss any pills while waiting to be processed into a room.
Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004
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Even though hospitals legally need to dispense medications from their own pharmacy through their own personnel, the pillbox is a great help to make sure the sick person doesn’t miss any pills while waiting to be processed into a room.
Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004
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Even though hospitals legally need to dispense medications from their own pharmacy through their own personnel, the pillbox is a great help to make sure the sick person doesn’t miss any pills while waiting to be processed into a room.
Share The Care Cappy Capossela 2004
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On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls.
JPost Headlines 2010
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On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls.
Latest Articles 2010
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In a two-year experiment at Fort Collins, he collected the emissions using static vented chambers, similar to small "pillbox" structures placed over the soil.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In that case, the window had a "letterbox" (margins at top and bottom only) or "pillbox" (margins at left and right only) appearance. window.devicePixelRatio was always spoofed to 1.0 even when device pixels != CSS pixels.
Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing | ZDNet Catalin Cimpanu 2019
stpeter commented on the word pillbox
As in a leopard-skin pillbox hat, perchance?
January 10, 2007
coldspire commented on the word pillbox
The brother-in-law of a chum believes that a cold, fever or other temporary ailment can be relieved overnight simply by imbibing exactly six beers just before going to bed.
While the fellow's hypothesis awaits clinical trials, I've begun using pillbox as slang for a six-pack of beer.
March 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word pillbox
"'Certainly this season we see a trend towards refined dressing so the pillbox and cocktail-style hats are very relevant,' Judy Coomber, Myer's director of apparel, says. 'The pillbox hat was a huge trend in the 1960s and this season there are many interpretations from sweet, refined, petite shapes to more exaggerated, grander styles.'"
- Tim Elliot, Spring and racing carnival hats are in the air, theage.com.au, 21 August 2009.
August 21, 2009
knitandpurl commented on the word pillbox
I didn't know the military meaning of this, as in:
"The Marines charge the wastebaskets as if they were Nip pillboxes, and Lieutenant Ethridge seems mollified."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, p 189 of the Avon Books paperback edition
January 28, 2013