soapbox
/ˈsəʊpbɒks/
soapbox noun: a crate for packing soap.
Noun
soapbox (plural soapboxes)
- A crate for packing soap.
- A small platform, being or resembling a literal soapbox, on which a person stands in order to give an impromptu speech or espouse their views.
- The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophecy of the end of the world.
- The one image which the word “Socialist” brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XXV, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC
- A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express their opinions.
- The politician used Twitter as his soapbox.
- Please stop using council meetings as your own personal soapbox.
- A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
- He's been on his soapbox all day about the new football coach.
- The topic itself.
- His soapbox is the lack of public toilets in the city.
- A soapbox car.
Verb
soapbox (third-person singular simple present soapboxes, present participle soapboxing, simple past and past participle soapboxed)
- To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.
- He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.2011, Phil Wolfson, Noe: A Father-Son Song of Love, Life, Illness, and Death, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN
- […] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.2015, Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 80
soapbox meaning in Gujarati
soapbox in Gujarati
- soapbox
- સાબુદાની sābudānī
Forms of soapbox
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | soapboxes |
| alternative form | soap box |
| alternative form | soap-box |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | soapboxes |
| present participle | soapboxing |
| past participle | soapboxed |
| past | soapboxed |
Origin of soapbox
From soap + box. The figurative use of the word derives from the fact that soap products in the US used to be commonly transported to stores in large wooden boxes. It used to be common for individuals to give impromptu rally speeches to their neighbors by finding something to stand on like a soapbox.
Words formed from soapbox
Phrases with soapbox
Questions about soapbox
- What does soapbox mean?
- Soapbox means a crate for packing soap.
- What is soapbox in Gujarati?
- Soapbox in Gujarati is સાબુદાની (sābudānī). See Soapbox meaning in Gujarati.
- What part of speech is soapbox?
- Soapbox can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce soapbox?
- Soapbox is pronounced /ˈsəʊpbɒks/.
- What is the plural of soapbox?
- The plural of soapbox is soapboxes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: soapbox (page history and authors); સાબુદાની (Gujarati) (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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