pillbox

[ pil-boks ]
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noun
  1. a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.

  2. a small, low structure of reinforced concrete, enclosing machine guns, and employed as a minor fortress in warfare.

  1. a small, round, brimless hat with straight sides and a flat top, worn especially by women.

Origin of pillbox

1
First recorded in 1720–30; pill1 + box1

Words Nearby pillbox

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How to use pillbox in a sentence

  • 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.

    The Red Seal | Natalie Sumner Lincoln
  • Most of the men had tiny pillbox caps of woven straw on the backs of their heads.

    The Golden Skull | John Blaine
  • He wore only a breechcloth and the little pillbox hat in which he kept his matches and tobacco.

    The Golden Skull | John Blaine
  • At this interesting crisis Dr. pillbox (evidently a most attentive practitioner) arrived to pay a second visit.

    Loyal to the School | Angela Brazil

British Dictionary definitions for pillbox

pillbox

/ (ˈpɪlˌbɒks) /


noun
  1. a box for pills

  2. a small enclosed fortified emplacement, usually made of reinforced concrete

  1. a small round hat, now worn esp by women

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