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cheese boxes

cheese boxes is the plural of cheese box.

Meaning of cheese box

Noun

cheese box (plural cheese boxes)

  1. A device formerly used by phreakers to convert a home telephone line into a payphone.
    • Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.1967, William Surface, Inside Internal Revenue

Questions about cheese boxes

What is cheese boxes the plural of?
Cheese boxes is the plural of cheese box.

Words near cheese boxes in the dictionary

  1. cheese antennae
  2. cheese antennas
  3. cheese ball
  4. cheese balls
  5. cheese box
  6. cheese boxes
  7. cheese bus
  8. cheese buses
  9. cheese busses
  10. cheese button
  11. cheese buttons

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