matchbox
/ˈmatʃbɒks
/noun
1A small box in which matches are sold, with a striking surface on one side.The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once....
- Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
- Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done.
1.1 [as modifier] Very small: her matchbox apartment...
- They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color.
- It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
- Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
- fitting
- fittingly
- fittingness
- fitting room
- fitting shop
- Fittipaldi, Emerson
- fit to be tied
- fit to bust
- fit-up
- Fitzgerald, Barry
- FitzGerald contraction
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction
- Fitzrovia
- Fitzroy
- Fiume
- five
- five a day
- five-alarm
- five-and-dime
- five-and-dime store
- five-and-ten
- five-a-side