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Noun: shoebox  'shoo,bóks
  1. An oblong rectangular (usually cardboard) box designed to hold a pair of shoes
    "She kept old photographs in a shoebox under her bed"
     
  2. A structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment)
    "His first apartment was a tiny shoebox with barely enough room for a bed"

Derived forms: shoeboxes

Type of: box, construction, structure

Encyclopedia: Shoebox