red box
red box noun: a phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
Noun
red box (plural red boxes)
- A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
- A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.
- Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.2013 September 9, Ben Quinn, “No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach”, in The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- ministerial box
- A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.
- A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.
- See also: severe thunderstorm watch
Synonyms of red box
Forms of red box
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Questions about red box
- What does red box mean?
- Red box means a phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
- What part of speech is red box?
- Red box is a noun.
- What is the plural of red box?
- The plural of red box is red boxes.
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