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- noun US, Canada, sometimes derogatory An uncomfortably small and boxy
house orcar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Family living in a' crackerbox 'slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.'
Archive 2009-09-01 Linda 2009
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'Family living in a' crackerbox 'slum tenement in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.'
Beaver Falls Tenement 1940 Linda 2009
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Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) plays Owen, a pre-teen living with his divorced mother in a crackerbox apartment complex.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Let Me In Marshall Fine 2010
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Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) plays Owen, a pre-teen living with his divorced mother in a crackerbox apartment complex.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Let Me In Marshall Fine 2010
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Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) plays Owen, a pre-teen living with his divorced mother in a crackerbox apartment complex.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Let Me In Marshall Fine 2010
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Kodi Smit-McPhee The Road plays Owen, a pre-teen living with his divorced mother in a crackerbox apartment complex.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Let Me In Marshall Fine 2010
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US new home sales at 16-year-low I've been expecting the new housing market to collapse after years of new developments of crackerbox houses on postage stamp tracts.
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My cousin lives in Los Angeles and at least a year ago her property a 1960's vintage small crackerbox house was worth almost a million dollars-- almost all of that was the lot itself, not the home.
I sort of love the results of this Larry King/Ahmadinejad "blingee" contest. Ann Althouse 2008
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Think of it as the slum landlord/insurance fraud school of governance -- bleed everyone dry for as long as you can then set fire to the place to collect the insurance money and throw up another shitty crackerbox apt building somewhere else, rinse, repeat.
Extradition Lindsay Stewart 2008
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She has two bedrooms, one bath, a scrubbed-clean, crackerbox kitchen, and a living room filled with secondhand furniture.
'Fearless Fourteen' 2008
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