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red boxes

red boxes is the plural of red box.

Meaning of red box

Noun

red box (plural red boxes)

  1. A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
  2. (UK) 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
  3. (US) A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.
  4. (US, informal) A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.
    • See also: severe thunderstorm watch

Questions about red boxes

What is red boxes the plural of?
Red boxes is the plural of red box.

Words near red boxes in the dictionary

  1. red book
  2. red books
  3. red bourgeoisie
  4. red bourgeoisies
  5. red box
  6. red boxes
  7. red brass
  8. red brick universities
  9. red brick university
  10. Red Brigades
  11. red brush

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