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pillbox

/pil-boks/US // ˈpɪlˌbɒks //UK // (ˈpɪlˌbɒks) //

药箱,药盒,枕头盒,丸子箱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
    • : a small, low structure of reinforced concrete, enclosing machine guns, and employed as a minor fortress in warfare.
    • : a small, round, brimless hat with straight sides and a flat top, worn especially by women.

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Examples

  • Nurses in white pillbox hats gently push their patients around in wheelchairs.

  • The policeman, now yelling and shaking his fist, started to exit his pillbox and walk toward me.

  • Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat.

  • Princess Eugenie's sculptural piece by Philip Treacy, Victoria Beckham's pillbox, and more over-the-top headgear from the wedding!

  • While wearing one of her own dresses, Victoria Beckham wore a pillbox Philip Treacy hat.

  • Each Fort and each Lib was a bristling pillbox with nose guns, waist guns, belly guns, and ball turret guns.

  • Satisfied that no pillbox stood behind any of them, he pulled open the two drawers and tumbled their contents about.

  • Most of the men had tiny pillbox caps of woven straw on the backs of their heads.

  • He wore only a breechcloth and the little pillbox hat in which he kept his matches and tobacco.

  • At this interesting crisis Dr. Pillbox (evidently a most attentive practitioner) arrived to pay a second visit.