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strawberry boxnoun Australian / NZ informal, historicalA container into which passengers can vomit, formerly provided on aircraft and ships: Roy staggered off to his dressing-room, where he did something that was usually done into a strawberry box...- I can remember my mother telling me that she asked the steward for some "strawberry boxes" to be told, "Nobody gets ill on our ships, Madam."
- He wouldn't have known what a strawberry-box was, I thought. He kept looking up at me anxiously, obviously expecting me to be sick, too.
- The pilot, a married man himself, was properly sympathetic when confronted with the ruins, and thenceforward all Qantas planes were equipped with "strawberry boxes".
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