pillbox

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  1. noun A small box for pills.
  2. noun A woman's small hat with upright sides and a flat crown.
  3. noun A low-roofed concrete emplacement for a machine gun or antitank gun.

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  • I'm afraid you'd have a long wait if I had to make more The pillbox was a trifle large for the pocket of Leal's cheap shirt. —  June, 1943
  • I could see now where I was, a concrete pillbox or bunker, with walls many feet thick. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
  • He had on a double-breasted suit of the type then known as the pillbox; it was chalk-striped, pink on blue; the trousers hugged his ankles They met and shook hands and sat down. —  Seize the Day
  • While Obama's style merits praise, she is not in the ranks of such icons as actress Katharine Hepburn, with her tailored menswear, or Jacqueline Kennedy with her pillbox hats and wide-frame sunglasses, says Helen Job, a trend forecaster with WGSN, a fashion research and analysis firm. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • Bond rummaged desperately in his pocket for the pillbox Q had given him that morning. —  Film | guardian.co.uk
 

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