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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A reusable container, usually with a handle, designed for storing and carrying one's lunch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A container for transporting meals, especially lunch.
  • noun slang A person or object constantly at one's side (in the manner of a lunchbox).
  • noun British slang The male genitals when enclosed in clothing.

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    1. The male genitals, a box supposedly containing a sausage and two eggs.
    2. The visible bulge of the genitals in the crotch area of men wearing tight-fitting pants.
    3. The vagina.

    July 25, 2008

  • Personally, I think that a proposal to use the same slang term for male and female genitalia rather misses the point.

    Budgie smugglers.

    July 25, 2008

  • Synonyms: sidekick

    ???

    Never heard that one before.

    May 4, 2011