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shoe box

shoe box is the alternative form of shoebox.

Meaning of shoebox

Noun

shoebox (plural shoeboxes)

  1. The box in which shoes are sold.
    • In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
  2. (derogatory, figuratively) A small, cramped residence or similar space.
    • She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249

Forms of shoe box

pluralshoe boxes

Questions about shoe box

What is shoe box the alternative form of?
Shoe box is the alternative form of shoebox.

Words near shoe box in the dictionary

  1. shoe blocks
  2. shoe bolt
  3. shoe bolts
  4. shoe bomber
  5. shoe bombers
  6. shoe box
  7. shoe boxes
  8. shoe brush
  9. shoe brushes
  10. shoe cream
  11. shoe flower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoe box (page history and authors); shoebox (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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