bandbox
Americannoun
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a lightweight box of pasteboard, thin wood, etc., for holding a hat, clerical collars, or other articles of apparel.
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an area or structure that is smaller in dimensions or size than the standard.
It's easy to hit home runs out of this bandbox.
noun
Other Word Forms
- bandboxical adjective
- bandboxy adjective
Etymology
Origin of bandbox
Example Sentences
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Heck, call it Mash Madness, as the Phillies turned Citizens Bank Park into a cozy home bandbox for the second straight game -- and with another fired-up, towel-waving crowd along for every long ball.
From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2022
Saint Peter’s fans made the 93-mile ride south to help pack the arena and give the Peacocks more of an edge than they usually have at their bandbox known as Run Baby Run Arena.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2022
In the best essay ever written — baseball or otherwise — John Updike once tagged Fenway Park “a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2019
Instead, the committee shoehorned senators, witnesses, the press and 20 members of the public into a bandbox room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
From Fox News • Sep. 27, 2018
A small male human in a bandbox hat and many buttons operated the elevator.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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