cubbyhole

noun

1. A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy and safety by children
2. A small compartment; a pigeonhole
3. A glove compartment

verb

1. To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.

   “Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.”

   “A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education.”

   “The Americans wanted to have enclosed offices, or at the very least, shoulder-high partitions cubbyholing individual desks.”

   “And, if we do so, it would be useful to bear in mind Sloterdijk’s insights regarding the amphibian quality of discourse within the Weimar Republic and the compelling ways in which it eludes easy generalization and comfortable cubbyholing.”

   “Delimited files and spreadsheets compartmentalize data by separating each piece of info with a comma or a tab, or by cubbyholing them into columns and rows in a spreadsheet file.”