box lunch
noun
a lunch or light meal packed in a cardboard box or similar container: Each student was given a box lunch to eat on the bus.
Origin of box lunch
1First recorded in 1945–50
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How to use box lunch in a sentence
Moreover, she and Nan ate every crumb of the shoe-box lunch before they went to bed!
Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall | Annie Roe Carr
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