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cakebox

cakebox noun: a box for keeping cake.

Noun

cakebox (plural cakeboxes)

  1. A box for keeping cake.
    • A cardboard cakebox on the cold counter would be the swap bag and when next seen it would have a cake in it.1961, John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
  2. A cylindrical container for recordable compact discs.
    • The blank discs also cost about $100 each—compared to less than 3 cents each in bulk cakebox form.2013, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing PCs, page 539

Forms of cakebox

pluralcakeboxes

Origin of cakebox

From cake + box.

Questions about cakebox

What does cakebox mean?
Cakebox means a box for keeping cake.
What part of speech is cakebox?
Cakebox is a noun.
What is the plural of cakebox?
The plural of cakebox is cakeboxes.

Words near cakebox in the dictionary

  1. cake-walk
  2. cake-walks
  3. cakeage
  4. cakebaker
  5. cakebakers
  6. cakebox
  7. cakeboxes
  8. Cakebread
  9. cakecrumb
  10. cakecrumbs
  11. caked

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