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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Slang An electronic device having a tone pulsator that prevents telephone equipment from registering long-distance charges.

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  1. n. a blue coloured container used for the collection of household waste (such as tin cans and newspapers) for recycling by a municipal authority
  2. n. an electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system

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  • “Gian Hen Gian was in the kitchen pouring salt from a round, blue box into a pitcher of Koolaid.”

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  • “Mint Magic, for example, is packaged in a blue box with white stars, showing a painting of a wizard summoning a gold, jewel-encrusted grail from a thicket of mint leaves.”

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  • “I saw them in the embrasure of her bag as she walked by, the little blue box of tampons, nestled between her cigarettes and a pack of grape-flavored Bubble Yum.”

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