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cold meat box

cold meat box noun: a coffin.

Noun

cold meat box (plural cold meat boxes)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A coffin.
    • "Perhaps you have a charm for never growing any older?"
      "No; but I could not lead such a life. I have already a bad cough."
      "Ah, I see you already in the cold-meat box."1899, Eugène Sue, The Works of Eugène Sue: Illustrated with Etchings, page 45

Forms of cold meat box

pluralcold meat boxes

Questions about cold meat box

What does cold meat box mean?
Cold meat box means a coffin.
What part of speech is cold meat box?
Cold meat box is a noun.
What is the plural of cold meat box?
The plural of cold meat box is cold meat boxes.

Words near cold meat box in the dictionary

  1. cold launch
  2. cold launches
  3. cold light
  4. cold lights
  5. cold meat
  6. cold meat box
  7. cold meat boxes
  8. cold meat cart
  9. cold meat carts
  10. cold meat train
  11. cold meat trains

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