English Explanatory Dictionary

spaghetti box

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of tall cardboard box in which cassette tapes were originally packaged for retail display to discourage theft.

Word forms

spaghetti box spaghetti boxes

Etymology

From the resemblance to the boxes in which spaghetti is sold.

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