shoebox
shoh boks
- n a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment)
- n an oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes
- It's a concept embraced by urbanites who have abandoned their shoebox-size apartments for the wide-open spaces of lofts reclaimed from 100-year-old factory buildings.
- It was like getting a shoebox full of gold.
- You can tell that he's got the brains because (1) he walks into a library and (2) he talks on some type of radiophone the size of a shoebox.