pillbox
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 7
/ˈpɪl bɒks/
(UK)
See all 2 pronunciations Show less
/ˈpɪl bɒks/ (UK) · /ˈpɪl bɑːks/ (US)
Definition of pillbox
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
-
A small box in which pills are kept.
“There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.”
See all 3 definitions Show less
noun
-
A small box in which pills are kept.
“There is a list of possessions auctioned after her death – her pillboxes and playing cards, two silver-mounted ivory lemon-squeezers.”
-
A flat, concrete gun emplacement.
“It was reported that the Germans had established trench works in front of the pillboxes. The enemy was said to have taken refuge from American fire in the pillboxes, later emerging to take up the trench positions.”
“Beneath the wide steppe sky women in white kerchiefs were digging trenches and building small pillboxes, looking up now and again in case 'those vermin' were on the wing.”
-
(archaic, slang)A doctor's carriage.
“The doctor generously told him where he lived in a loud and audible manner, gave him half-a-crown, and was about ascending his pill-box, after bidding him call upon him, in a day or two, when a servant in a splendid livery stepped forward from the hotel […]”
“[…] the commercial traveller cuts in and out of the line in the dog-cart that carries his samples; the doctor contrives to be seen there in his pill-box on wheels; the eminent tragedian airs himself in a buggy; […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pill + box.
Words you can make from pillbox
35 playable · top: BOLLIX (15 pts)
Best play bollix 15 points5-letter words
1 word4-letter words
8 words3-letter words
15 words2-letter words
10 wordsFind your best play with pillbox
See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes pillbox, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.