pillbox
- n a small round woman's hat
- n a small case for holding pills
- n a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)
- Pat Nixon's cloth coat and Jackie Kennedy's pillbox hats provoked plenty of conversation in their day.
- A figure then crept from the pillbox on all fours, ran down the hill, screaming and sobbing.
- Some of the arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered.