Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small box for pills.
- n. A woman's small hat with upright sides and a flat crown.
- n. A low-roofed concrete emplacement for a machine gun or antitank gun.
Wiktionary
- n. A small box in which pills are kept.
- n. A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small round woman's hat
- n. a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)
- n. a small case for holding pills
Examples
“She complains in pillbox about not being able to sit down and her hands getting clammy.”
“This little princess was taken to a rather special old pillbox which is being kitted out as a Hilton for Bats.”
“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.”
“On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls.”
“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.”
“My patent leather overnight case like a black pillbox”
“The study found many parents lacked a calendar, pillbox, chalkboard or other reminder tool.”
“She's wearing a long emerald green dress and a reddish brown pillbox hat.”
“Kennedy continued with the suggestion despite Terenzio's protests, proposing that they "have her in a pillbox hat, sitting on a stack of books.”
The Huffington Post: JFK Jr. Wanted Madonna To Pose As Jackie Kennedy Onassis, She Declined: Report
“This is a car that's legally a motorbike, opens up like a pillbox and comes with the warning that in moderate winds or at speeds above 30 mph it can get "blown about.”
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Lists
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bilby "'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. Aug 21, 2009
coldspire 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. Mar 13, 2008
stpeter As in a leopard-skin pillbox hat, perchance? Jan 10, 2007