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green boxes

green boxes is the plural of green box.

Meaning of green box

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...
  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.

Questions about green boxes

What is green boxes the plural of?
Green boxes is the plural of green box.

Words near green boxes in the dictionary

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

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