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cold meat boxes

cold meat boxes is the plural of cold meat box.

Meaning of cold meat box

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

Questions about cold meat boxes

What is cold meat boxes the plural of?
Cold meat boxes is the plural of cold meat box.

Words near cold meat boxes in the dictionary

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

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