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ghostboxes

ghostboxes is the plural of ghostbox.

Meaning of ghostbox

Noun

ghostbox (plural ghostboxes)

  1. (informal) An abandoned mall or big-box store.
    • Someday in the not-too-distant future, it will become another of the country's numerous "ghostboxes" that are too expensive to tear down but not lucrative enough to actually use.2014 December 22, Erin Meisenzahl-Peace, “Who Still Hangs Out at the Mall?”, in VICE, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2023

Questions about ghostboxes

What is ghostboxes the plural of?
Ghostboxes is the plural of ghostbox.

Words near ghostboxes in the dictionary

  1. ghostban
  2. ghostbanned
  3. ghostbanning
  4. ghostbans
  5. ghostbox
  6. ghostboxes
  7. ghostbuster
  8. ghostbusters
  9. ghostbusting
  10. ghostcraft
  11. ghostdom

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