footlocker

[ foot-lok-er ]

noun

1. a small trunk designed to be kept at the foot of a bed, especially to contain a soldier's personal effects.

Word History and Origins

Origin of footlocker¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; foot + locker

Example Sentences

“I was basically told that everything I believed was rubbish, and that I should be ripping up bits of cardboard and locking myself in footlockers overnight and bending every rule.”

From New York Times

He wrote his own jokes and carried 15 footlockers of props.

From New York Times

The trailer was carrying materials from a jewelry show in San Mateo to another exhibition in Pasadena when 20 large footlockers of valuable jewelry were stolen.

From Washington Times

His badly burned remains were found in a metal footlocker near a blueberry field in western Michigan’s Ottawa County, but the remains were not identified as those of Caraballo until 2015.

From Seattle Times

The unarmed campus cop on guard duty when Whitman drove on campus could have checked his claim that the footlocker in his back seat contained equipment for the science building.

From Washington Post