Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spar with an imaginary opponent, as for exercise or training purposes.
Wiktionary
- n. A diorama
- v. boxing, martial arts To practice moves without an actual opponent, often in front of a mirror.
WordNet 3.0
- v. go through boxing motions without an opponent
Etymologies
- shadow + box (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm assuming it's permanently mounted in the "shadowbox," so no one can get stabbed by it...but what an odd thing to memorialize from this film.”
“I stopped in front of the last item on the wall; a sizable shadowbox.”
“I was surprised that the place was half-full, permitting one bouncer the space and lack of supervision to shadowbox.”
The Huffington Post: Jelena Darling: Bush Tetras, Live and Well
“I already have a 120 pound lab/st. bernard, but she's a sissy; already have fenced in yard in shadowbox style; already armed with a baseball bat at the backdoor in the mud room; and intend to go to Dundee Mich to Cabelas to get a moultrie camera based upon your suggestion.”
“Rich-Joseph Facun for The Wall Street Journal Joseph Serina, displaying his shadowbox from a 21-year Navy career, traded his military pension checks to investors for immediate cash The burgeoning business of investing in someone else's pension has never been easier—or more controversial and risky.”
The Wall Street Journal: Investing in a Stranger's Retirement
“I decided to take the large shrine blank that I had made and create a shadowbox to turn these things into art.”
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Shadowbox of Unpartable Treasures
“Hammons, former State Commandant of the Marine Corps League, stands next to a framed copy of his honorable discharge from the U.S. Marine Corps in 1966 and a shadowbox holding a photo of his brother, killed in”
“Who can shadowbox effectively against such duplicity and dishonesty?”
“But what materializes out of the darkness there are shadowbox photos of Nikki.”
“But I get into the ring and shadowbox with a few Cuban kids.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shadowbox’.
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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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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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The Shadow Knows!
Shadow words.
shadow, shadowbox, shadowboxing, shadower, shadowgraph, shadowiness, shadowish, shadowland, shadowless, shadowlike, shadowy, shadow art and 39 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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