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box
noun- the vagina; a woman UK, 1605
- I grabbed her by the shoulders, kissed her, and right quick from some instinctive sense shoved my hand right up her dress and came up with her box shining golden in the golden sun. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Neal Cassady, p. 298, 10 January 1951
- And do you know that the same thing happened to that dumb little box? — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 184, 1957
- She has no cherry, but she thinks it’s no sin / for she still has the box that the cherry came in. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 229, 1964
- He said, “All I have to do is scarf her a few times and I get anything I want.” Nuttee asked Diehl to explain the word “scarf.” “To eat her box, in other words.” — Richard Honeycutt, Candy Mossler, p. 80, 1966
- Max was still down on the floor with his nose up V’s smelly box. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 146, 1969
- The broad was there in a short skirt with no drawers; when the guard wasn’t looking–zip–she flashed her box, now you see it, now you don’t–like the guy in the raincoat on the subway. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 123, 1975
- Are the billboards around town promoting Kook cigarettes’ flip-top box in poor taste, pornographic–or neither? The ones that show a young woman in bathing attire floating in an inner tube under the caption: “Coolest box around.” — San Francisco Examiner, p. 37, 15 September 1976
- Wanting to test the mettle of Dave’s 42nd Street schlong, she bit off more than her little box could chew. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 117, 1986
- the posterior, the buttocks US, 1965
Originally black, then gay usage. - — Paul Baker, Polari, p. 166, 2002
- a jail or prison US
Usually heard as “the box”. - — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 130, 1995
- a secure prison cubicle for a one-to-one visit UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 30, 1996
- a cell used for solitary confinement US
- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 21, 1976
- a safe US, 1902
- Can you bust a box, if you have to? — Robert Edmond Alter, Carny Kill, p. 102, 1966
- I was supposed to be the best box-man in the country and as I look back, I must have busted four hundred boxes and lifted more than a million. — Red Rudensky, The Gonif, p. 6, 1970
- What they weigh depends on the box you’re going after. — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 91, 1972
- I’m thinking about my own place, Nicky. Would you be able to put a box in? — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 9, 1979
- in a court of law, the witness box AUSTRALIA
- Jump in the box [give Queen’s evidence]. — Jim McNeil, “The Chocolate Frog” and “The Old Familiar Juice”, 1973
- approximately 20 one-kilogram plates of pressed hashish CANADA
- The plates are bundled into “boxes” of approximately twenty kilos, wrapped in burlap and buried until they can be shipped. — Suroosh Alvi et al., The Vice Guide, p. 113, 2002
- a small amount of marijuana, approximately enough to fill a matchbox US, 1967
- a guitar US, 1911
May also refer to a banjo. - — Robert S. Gold, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 35, 1964
- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
- a piano US, 1908
- — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 8, 1950
- This gave me a stronger urge to blow piano, or blow a box, as they used to say. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 229, 1965
- a record player UK, 1924
- [A] record player is a “box”[.] — Harrison E. Salisbury, The Shook-up Generation, p. 161, 1958
- If you have a box I’ll bring them in. — Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac Selected Letters 1957–1969, p. 170, 28 August 1958: Letter to Allen Ginsberg
- [W]hy did Lester [Bangs] mention tha El Cajon means “The Box”? Was it because “box” is old hipster slang for record player[?] — Greil Marcus, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, 1986
- a large, portable radio and tape player US
A shortened GHETTO BOX- He was no legal scholar but even he knew the kids call a ghetto blaster a box. — Andrew Vachss, Flood, p. 342, 1985
- television US, 1950
Usually after “the”. - He came on the box early, drummed home the law and order theme, honored his cops and firemen. — Sidney Bernard, This Way to the Apocalypse, p. 72, 1968
- Nice to see a West Country babe on the box instead of those mingin’ birds with fake knockers. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & Spaghetti Sauce, p. 260, 2000
- a polygraph machine US, 1997
- On the night that Yolanda passes the box, there is a homecoming of sorts when McLarney returns to Kavanaugh’s[.] — David Simon, Homicide, p. 157, 1991
- She was taken to the next room and connected to “the Box.” — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 325, 1997
- an old and inferior car US
- — Hal Higdon, Finding the Groove, p. 296, 1973
- No matter how much money we made, he always drove a shit box; in December, he’d be in a convertible with no top. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 187, 1973
- a new car showroom US
- — Doctor’s Review, August 1989
- a coffin UK, 1864
- I pity him in the box, coz it’s not a patch on a Slumberland[.] — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
- There’s only one way I’m getting out of here, and that’s in a box. — Joel Rose, Kill Kill Faster Faster, p. 14, 1997
- in bar dice games, a leather or vinyl cup used to shake dice before spilling them out US
- — Gil Jacobs, The World’s Best Dice Games, p. 194, 1976
- in horse racing, a combination bet that covers many different possible outcomes US, 2001
- in horse racing, a horse stall AUSTRALIA
- — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 9, 1989
- a pool table, especially a large one US
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 6, 1990
- in the sport of fencing, an electric recording apparatus UK
- — E.D. Morton, Martini A–Z of Fencing, 1988
- a reinforced item of underwear designed to protect a sportsman’s genitals UK, 1961
- a person who is profoundly out of touch with current trends US
A three-dimensional SQUARE- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 681, 1976
- in the Royal Air Force, an aircraft cockpit simulator UK, 1984
- in the Vietnam war, an aerial target zone approximately 5/8 of a mile wide by 2 miles long US
- Every three hours around the clock, six B-52s from the Strategic Air Command bases in Guam and Thailand obliterated a “box” with 162 ons of boms. — Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie, p. 706, 1988
- a submarine’s main battery UK, 1979
Reported by John Marlin, 1979. - an interrogation room US
- Back room. Interrogation room. “The Box,” they called it. — John Ridley, Love is a Racket, p. 203, 1998
▶ in the box- engaged in vaginal sex US
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 9, 1972
- dealing drugs US
- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 86, 1997
▶ off your box; out of your box- drunk or drug-intoxicated UK
- I did everything I wanted to. Went to Thailand, get out of my box, meditated, get into yoga. — Ask, 7 March 1981
- We were just off our boxes, just daft lads. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1993
- a biker who kept screaming like a wolf because he was out of his box on magic mushrooms — Mark Steel, Reasons to be cheerful, 2001
- mentally disturbed; behaving erratically UK
Perhaps an allusion to the Greek myth of Pandora’s box and the evils it contained. - I now know this guy is tripping off his box. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 10, 2000
▶ out of the box
in motor racing, exactly as produced by the manufacturer, without any modifications US- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 119, 1993
▶ put in the box
to kill someone US- There are three reasons a familiano can be put in the box [killed]: cowardice, treason, or desertion. — Bill Valentine, Gangs and Their Tattoos, p. 36, 2000
▶ take a box
to defecate IRELAND- To slash (to piss), to take a box (to crap), to spoon (to court), to sow (to love), to sigh, to sin-o. — Aidan Higgins, Donkey’s Years, p. 146, 1995
▶ take out of the box
to kill someone US- — Bill Valentine, Gang Intelligence Manual, p. 78, 1995: “Black street gang terminology”
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