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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

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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of pillbox1

First recorded in 1720–30; pill 1 + box 1
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A woman in a pillbox hat held a tray of bubbling drinks.

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Mr Thomas said a series of "extremely stormy seas" over the past two to three weeks "have washed out the pillbox".

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Those battles have featured the use of trenches, pillboxes, homemade armored cars and drones modified to drop small bombs.

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“It wasn’t about ‘tank on tank’ fighting, it was ‘tank on pillbox’ and ‘tank on machine gun,’†General Donahoe said.

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He remembered that Laine wanted him to take his anti-anxiety medications when he could feel himself getting upset, so he unpacked all his belongings to search for his pillbox, found nothing, and repacked everything again.

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