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lunchbox, n.
Brit. |ˈlʌn(t)ʃbɒks|, U.S. |ˈlən(t)ʃˌbɑks|
[‹ lunch n.2 + box n.2]
1. A container designed to carry a packed lunch (or other meal).
Formerly, any of various types and sizes of receptacle, sometimes also carrying crockery, etc., but now usually a small lidded box for food.
1862Harper's Mag. Feb. 360/1 Elliott had a lunch-box on his back, and Dot her reticule strapped on hers, while Hal was obliged to be content with an atlas to do duty as a knapsack. 1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104 616/2 Lunch boxes... Well made of compressed fibre board. 1930A. M. Lindbergh Let. 4 Mar. in Hour of Gold (1973) 129 Lunch boxes, thermos bottles, coats, pillows will stay on the floor as there isn't any draft through the cockpits. 1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 233 Her house is ideally a base which her tired-warrior hunter can withdraw to..while he..is prepared by laundry and toilet and lunch-box for another sortie. 1997Utne Reader Feb. 79/1 Overworked parents who..need to wash out grotty lunch boxes..at the end of the day.
2. U.S. slang (esp. College slang). A fool, simpleton; an inept person. Cf. out to lunch at lunch n.2 2b.
[1965Time 1 Jan. 56 A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp..gink..skag..lunchbucket.] 1969Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 7 Lunchbox, a simpleton. 1987Washington Post (Nexis) 12 July w9 Lunch box. Someone who is dumb. 1992P. Rudnick I hate Hamlet i. i. 40 What are you to be—artist, or lunchbox?
3. Chiefly Brit. slang. A man's genitals, esp. when conspicuous in tight clothing.
Cf. also basket n., package n.
1972Rolling Stone 11 May (caption) (front-cover), Naked lunchbox: the business of David Cassidy. 1989B. Elton Stark 83 For those who experienced the horrors, each one left a little piece of themselves out in Vietnam. In Zimmerman's case it was his lunchbox. 1995Daily Star 25 Apr. 27/5 When you're out on stage, wearing next to nothing, it's important that your lunchbox looks more like a banquet than a snack. 1998Daily Mirror (Electronic ed.) 24 June When judges seem to be out of step with society they can be figures of fun. When they..don't know what Linford Christie's lunchbox is, they can raise a laugh. |