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crackerbox
noun- a plain, box-like house US, 1945
- The people sweltering through the early dog days of late spring ... not warm enough to stay outside all the time, but too warm to stay inside the crackerbox walls[.] — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 9, 1972
- The house was a frame crackerbox with a pair of dormer windows sticking out of the roof and no style at all until Richard fixed up the front with imitation ledgerock, a grillwork porch and striped aluminum awnings over the proch and windows. — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 37, 1978
- Why on earth didn’t I sell this run-down little cracker box and return to my hometown[?] — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon, p. 19, 1992
- a jail from which escape is simple; a safe which is simple to break into US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 51, 1950
- a brakevan (caboose) US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 38, 1977
- a military truck used as an ambulance US, 1950
- — J.E. Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume One, p. 504, 1994
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