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glove boxes

glove boxes is the plural of glove box.

Meaning of glove box

Noun

glove box (plural glove boxes)

  1. A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
    • There's a map in the glovebox.
  2. A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.

Questions about glove boxes

What is glove boxes the plural of?
Glove boxes is the plural of glove box.

Words near glove boxes in the dictionary

  1. glouted
  2. glouting
  3. glouts
  4. glove
  5. glove box
  6. glove boxes
  7. glove compartment
  8. glove compartments
  9. glove doll
  10. glove dolls
  11. glove money

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