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pillbox

[ pil-boks ]

noun

  1. a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills. pill.
  2. a small, low structure of reinforced concrete, enclosing machine guns, and employed as a minor fortress in warfare.
  3. a small, round, brimless hat with straight sides and a flat top, worn especially by women.


pillbox

/ ˈpɪlˌbɒks /

noun

  1. a box for pills
  2. a small enclosed fortified emplacement, usually made of reinforced concrete
  3. a small round hat, now worn esp by women


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pillbox1

First recorded in 1720–30; pill 1 + box 1

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Example Sentences

Nurses in white pillbox hats gently push their patients around in wheelchairs.

The policeman, now yelling and shaking his fist, started to exit his pillbox and walk toward me.

Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat.

Princess Eugenie's sculptural piece by Philip Treacy, Victoria Beckham's pillbox, and more over-the-top headgear from the wedding!

While wearing one of her own dresses, Victoria Beckham wore a pillbox Philip Treacy hat.

Each Fort and each Lib was a bristling pillbox with nose guns, waist guns, belly guns, and ball turret guns.

Satisfied that no pillbox stood behind any of them, he pulled open the two drawers and tumbled their contents about.

Most of the men had tiny pillbox caps of woven straw on the backs of their heads.

He wore only a breechcloth and the little pillbox hat in which he kept his matches and tobacco.

At this interesting crisis Dr. Pillbox (evidently a most attentive practitioner) arrived to pay a second visit.

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