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big boxes

big boxes is the plural of big box.

Meaning of big box

Noun

big box (plural big boxes)

  1. A large self-service store, usually on a single level, with few interior walls, owned and run by a corporation.
    • Expect major mall owners to step up their courting of discounters and big boxes.2006, Stacy Mitchell, Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 120
  2. (attributive) Software supplied in a large box made from card, typical of the 1990s.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, box.

Questions about big boxes

What is big boxes the plural of?
Big boxes is the plural of big box.

Words near big boxes in the dictionary

  1. Big Board
  2. big boned
  3. big boob
  4. Big Bounce
  5. big box
  6. big boxes
  7. big boy
  8. big boy britches
  9. big boy pants
  10. big boys
  11. big brain

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