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green box

green box noun: an upper box in a theatre.

Noun

green box (plural green boxes)

  1. (historical) An upper box in a theatre.
    • And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn...
    • I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18
  2. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade.
  3. A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.

Forms of green box

pluralgreen boxes

Questions about green box

What does green box mean?
Green box means an upper box in a theatre.
What part of speech is green box?
Green box is a noun.
What is the plural of green box?
The plural of green box is green boxes.

Words near green box in the dictionary

  1. green books
  2. green border
  3. green borders
  4. green bottle flies
  5. green bottle fly
  6. green box
  7. green boxes
  8. green brass
  9. green bridge
  10. green bridges
  11. green brier

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