单词 | soapbox |
释义 | > see alsoalso refers to : soap-boxn. > as lemmassoap-box soap-box v. U.S. intransitive to speak from or as from a soap-box. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > make a speech [verb (intransitive)] > for particular occasion, purpose, or cause epitaph1606 vary1680 stump1839 to take the stump1868 spruik1894 to go on the stump1903 Limehouse1913 tub-thump1920 soap-box1926 1926 E. O'Neill Great God Brown i. iii. 41 When you got to love to live it's hard to love living. I better join the A.F. of L. and soap-box for the eight-hour night! 1931 L. Adamic Dynamite 161 When still in her teens, she soap-boxed on street corners in New York. < see also as lemmas |
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