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.”
The Huffington Post: Christine Negroni: My Carbon Neutral Sunday Drive
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pillbox’.
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defense
shield, aegis, armor, cuirass, plastron, inured, reinforced, cataphract, proof, targus, buckler, shield bearer and 123 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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hats and headgear
Everything hats,things with hoods,hoods,scarves,crowns,useful
adjectival forms,hat expressions,
alternate spellingsbabushka, balaclava, bamoral, baseball cap, beanie, bearskin, beaver hat, beret, billycock, biretta, boater, bobble hat and 422 more...
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Hats Off!
trilby, porkpie, panama, fedora, pillbox, stovepipe, turban, boater, ball cap, pastorella, beret, bowler and 219 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Malachi_Constant's Words
triumverate, pandemic, parsnip, delineate, zamboni, parka, laser, swoop, malevolent, benevolent, fracas, tipsy and 372 more...
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Military Matters
words of mass (or minor) destruction
caltrop, stylet, chassepot, baldric, rewet, blunderbuss, musket, flintlock, howitzer, ordnance, casque, dragoon and 148 more...
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best. words. EVER.
gee... what do you think?
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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PellaNightfire's list
gorge
Blight
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
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The Dailies
Words that should be used once a day, even if a situation that can invoke the use of the word needs to be created.
king hit, sos wine, post hoc ergo pro..., bampot, manhandle, pillbox, sleep like a crew..., cattywampus, bon mot, beau geste
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pillbox.
knitandpurl 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 Jan 28, 2013
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