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zombie boxes

zombie boxes is the plural of zombie box.

Meaning of zombie box

Noun

zombie box (plural zombie boxes)

  1. (derogatory, slang, uncommon) A television.
    • taking a form more frequently thought of as anathematical to poetry (Iain Chrichton Smith, for example, lambasted the TV as a deadening zombie box in "At the TV") and seeing in it parallels and possibilities.2002, Galloway Kyle, Harold Monro, Stephen Phillips (editors), Poetry Review, Volume 92, page 60

Questions about zombie boxes

What is zombie boxes the plural of?
Zombie boxes is the plural of zombie box.

Words near zombie boxes in the dictionary

  1. zombie bank
  2. zombie banker
  3. zombie bankers
  4. zombie banks
  5. zombie box
  6. zombie boxes
  7. zombie business
  8. zombie businesses
  9. zombie car
  10. zombie cars
  11. zombie cell

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