| 单词 | box social |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox social box social n. North American (now chiefly historical) a fund-raising social event at which boxed meals are sold or auctioned, customarily to be shared by the purchaser with the person who prepared the meal. ΚΠ 1882 Atchison (Kansas) Globe 7 Dec. If you want to enjoy yourself this evening, go to the box social at the Congregational church, buy a lunch box, and eat lunch with the lady whose card you find inside. 1943 O. Hammerstein Oklahoma! i. i. 6 Who you takin' to the Box Social tonight? 1996 Canad. Geographic Sept. 62/1 Perhaps it was the confining nature of their situation that lent such an intensity to the settlers' social life... There were box socials and shadow plays. 2016 Troy (Madison County) Times-Tribune 27 Oct. 10/4 Many moons ago, he bought my box at a box social one year; and I never forgot that. < as lemmas |
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