[
UK
/pˈɪlbɒks/
]
NOUN
- a small case for holding pills
- a small round woman's hat
- a small enclosed gun emplacement (usually of fortified concrete)
How To Use pillbox In A Sentence
- His face adorns pillowcases, posters, power toys and pillboxes.
- On her head sits a black pillbox hat with a shoulder-length black veil speckled with black velvet dots.
- In the months between-country springs and summers-they played with real Spam tins-tanks, tank-destroyers, pillboxes, dreadnoughts deploying meat-pink, yellow and blue about the dusty floors of lumber-rooms or butteries, under the cots or couches of their exile. Gravity's Rainbow
- Medication calendars or pillboxes labeled with the days of the week can help patients and caregivers know when medications have or have not been taken.
- There are figurines amassed by Christie's father, 20th-century pottery of Anthony's and watches and pillboxes of Christie's.
- On the cover, dressed in sheepskin jacket, pillbox hat and yellow T-shirt, he looks much younger than his 20 years.
- When I landed I was carrying a 25-pound explosive which I was given to blow up a pillbox on the beach.
- The objective was a ridge with strong points and pillboxes.
- He was dealing with the first part of the events that won him the VC, getting on top of the pillbox and chucking grenades into it.
- However, having foozled into a ruined pillbox, I reduced the offer by half, and later on, confident -- not to say insulting -- reports from Laxey induced me to withdraw the concession altogether. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04