[
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
- Last year, she wore a teensy-weensy silver pillbox. Times, Sunday Times
- As a member of the Western Front Association, he is currently trying to save a concrete pillbox on Rochdale Road East, not far from Heywood Cemetery.
- Concrete pillboxes were constructed above the high tide mark, soldiers occupied some of the cottages along the shore front and guards prevented anyone going on the beach at night.
- But behind the pearls and pillbox hats was a different Jackie - cattier, cruder, no less admiring of her husband but much more realistic and blunt about the political world they inhabited. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- She wore one of mother's pillbox hats with netting over her eyes that I'm sure she thought made her look sophisticated but in reality, made her look like Betty Boop.
- Holding her hand was some brunette dressed in a mannish chalk-stripe suit and a matching pillbox hat with a veil as fine as smoke. Asimov's Science Fiction
- We had to use grenades to get at the Germans in the cement pillboxes, throwing them through the holes to knock their guns out.
- There is a set of features along its entire length - World War II defence emplacements, otherwise known as pillboxes.
- Never mix two different drugs in the same pillbox.
- On three of my assignments (one involving 48 hours in a very cramped "pillbox" watchtower), the commanding officers were 19-year-old girls. JPost Headlines