BOX LUNCH Definition & Meaning

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box lunch

noun

a lunch or light meal packed in a cardboard box or similar container:
Each student was given a box lunch to eat on the bus.

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Origin of box lunch¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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Most of the kids follow Ms. Cherry into the pizza line, except Chin and I have box lunch.

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Among other many other things, a “gourmet box lunch and Saturday breakfast” is included in the big doings, and there will be a “VIP Suite” available to those who might need one, according to the invitation.

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“He charged 25 cents, and they got a box lunch in the deal,” says John Murdy, known today as the architect of Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood.

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Remember those times in fourth grade When I shared the box lunch my mom made?

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Her father, despite being partially impaired by a stroke, would buy her a box lunch with cod.

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