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ˈcracker-box U.S.
[cracker 9.]
A biscuit-box. Also attrib. and fig. (cf. cracker-barrel).
1857Harper's Mag. July 149/1 Their instruments consisted of a couple of drums..and a Boston tin cracker-box. 1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xxxv. 237 Entering, he would nod briefly and seat himself on a cracker-box. 1911H. S. Harrison Queed xviii. 230 Republican cracker-box orators were trying somehow to make capital of the thing. 1932E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost xxii. 231 With his..alternations between inspiring religious eloquence and the crackerbox vernacular of the backwoods, he seemed outspoken. 1945B. MacDonald Egg & I (1946) i. 15 Mother tore the partitions out of the crackerbox house. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xiv. 159 He heard barnyard imitations by Jim Turner on the fiddle and Billy Nichols on the crackerbox. |