blue box

noun

an electronic device used by phone phreaks to send out signals that unlock long-distance telephone circuits.

blue box

a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled

First recorded in 1975–80

[Us Weekly] Qatar Stocks Up on Tiffany: The Middle East has blue box fever.

The Blue Box, placed in every Zionist institution in Israel and abroad was the emblem of popular devotion to the Zionist cause.

In my 22 years in Washington, this is the first one I can remember involving a little blue box.

Clues display in full in the blue box located below the puzzle.

The queen deposited this money where she always kept her trinkets, in a small blue box.

On the table stood a big blue box with a card bearing her name attached to it.

Then we perched, some on my fence and some on the blue box that held the garden hose.

Eily noted the geraniums in the little blue box that he had tended himself.

"And if I can't find the blue box I'll get along without it," he told himself.

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