Shoebox
noun
A rectangular box that is used to store shoes.
She kept her love letters in an old shoebox in her drawer.
Often appears as...
- old shoebox
- cardboard shoebox
noun
A small or plain room or building.
They lived in a cramped shoebox apartment in the city center.
Often appears as...
- shoebox apartment
- shoebox flat
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A rectangular box that is used to store shoes.
She kept her love letters in an old shoebox in her drawer.
Often appears as...
- old shoebox
- cardboard shoebox
noun
A small or plain room or building.
They lived in a cramped shoebox apartment in the city center.
Often appears as...
- shoebox apartment
- shoebox flat
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Use
Used to describe the actual object for storing footwear.
He bought a new shoebox to organize his sneaker collection.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can represent a space for preserving memories or keepsakes.
Her grandmother's shoebox was filled with vintage photos and postcards.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Collocations
Though mainly for shoes, collocations expand to items like 'charity shoebox' or 'storage shoebox'.
He donated to the charity shoebox appeal every Christmas.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Use
Used to describe the actual object for storing footwear.
He bought a new shoebox to organize his sneaker collection.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can represent a space for preserving memories or keepsakes.
Her grandmother's shoebox was filled with vintage photos and postcards.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Collocations
Though mainly for shoes, collocations expand to items like 'charity shoebox' or 'storage shoebox'.
He donated to the charity shoebox appeal every Christmas.
Pro Tip 1/3Literal Use
Used to describe the actual object for storing footwear.
He bought a new shoebox to organize his sneaker collection.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
Can represent a space for preserving memories or keepsakes.
Her grandmother's shoebox was filled with vintage photos and postcards.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-literal Collocations
Though mainly for shoes, collocations expand to items like 'charity shoebox' or 'storage shoebox'.
He donated to the charity shoebox appeal every Christmas.
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Video examples
Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs and bring it to that kind of shoebox of, you know, photos with your family on the kitchen table kind of thing.
Video examples
London Gang Heist PIPE...
makes an amazing discovery they saw pallets on the floor of the warehouse which contained boxes about the size of his shoebox and found out that there were gold bars in these boxes it's an incredible stroke of good luck the gold has been packed for shipment to a
Video examples
Anand Agarawala: BumpTop...
I think it applies to more than just icons and your desktop -- but browsing photographs. I think you can really enrich the way we browse our photographs and bring it to that kind of shoebox of, you know, photos with your family on the kitchen table kind of thing.
Video examples
London Gang Heist PIPE...
makes an amazing discovery they saw pallets on the floor of the warehouse which contained boxes about the size of his shoebox and found out that there were gold bars in these boxes it's an incredible stroke of good luck the gold has been packed for shipment to a
Example 1 of 2
Quote examples
Evan Rachel Wood
American Actress
I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.
Quote examples
Ben McKenzie
I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.
Quote examples
Anna Kendrick
American Actress
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
Quote examples
Holly Lisle
American Writer
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
Quote examples
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
Quote examples
Brian Selznick
American Artist
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Quote examples
Jack Johnson
American Athlete
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
Quote examples
Evan Rachel Wood
American Actress
I have a very large shoebox overflowing with lyrics I've been writing and collecting since my teen years and into my late 20s, with lyrics from all walks of my life. Darkness, being in love, being heartbroken, finding yourself... and lyrics that I've been sitting on for, like, seven years, that I haven't done anything with.
Quote examples
Ben McKenzie
I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.
Quote examples
Anna Kendrick
American Actress
When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.
Quote examples
Holly Lisle
American Writer
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
Quote examples
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
Quote examples
Brian Selznick
American Artist
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.
Quote examples
Jack Johnson
American Athlete
Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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