• Lunch-box

    Full definition of lunch-box

    Noun

    lunch-box

    (plural lunch-boxs)
    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 1987, Guide to Places of the World: A Geographical Dictionary of Countries, Cities, Natural and Man-Made Wonders, Alok Chaudhry is one of the 2300 members of the Union of Tiffinbox Suppliers who form a network of relay teams that collect 100 000 lunch-boxes in mid-morning from Bombay’s suburbs and delivers them to offices in the city centre by lunchtime. ... Rajnish, second in the chain, collects his lunch-boxes from them at the first meeting point at 10.20.
      • 2011, John Knight, Herding Monkeys to Paradise: How Macaque Troops are Managed for Tourism in Japan Chapter with Monkeys Knowing the Monkeys, Ishii also shared chikuwa (fish sausage) and boiled egg from his bent? lunch-box with the monkeys (he told me that the monkeys even eat tsukemono pickles and umeboshi plums).
      • 2013, w:Fiona Kidman, The Infinite Air: A Novel Chapter 23, Her lunch-box had been packed with roast chicken drumsticks and sliced mango.
      • 2016, Trisha Merry, The Cast-Off Kids Chapter A Steal a Day, But today, I found one of the other children crying at lunchtime, because her lunch-box had been raided and nearly everything was missing.
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