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rag-box

rag-box noun: a person's mouth.

Noun

rag-box (plural rag-boxes)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A person's mouth.
    • You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay1892, Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 46
    • Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73

Forms of rag-box

pluralrag-boxes

Questions about rag-box

What does rag-box mean?
Rag-box means a person's mouth.
What part of speech is rag-box?
Rag-box is a noun.
What is the plural of rag-box?
The plural of rag-box is rag-boxes.

Words near rag-box in the dictionary

  1. rag-and-bone men
  2. rag-and-bone shop
  3. rag-and-bone shops
  4. rag-bagger
  5. rag-baggers
  6. rag-box
  7. rag-chewing
  8. rag-doll
  9. rag-dolled
  10. rag-dolling
  11. rag-dolls

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