Christmas box

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noun

a tip or present given at Christmas, esp to postmen, tradesmen, etc

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Words nearby Christmas box

Christlike, Christly, Christmas, Christmas beetle, Christmasberry, Christmas box, Christmas cactus, Christmas card, Christmas club, Christmas disease, Christmas Eve

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How to use Christmas box in a sentence

In the wee hours of Christmas morning, a flight deal was shared in an exclusive Facebook group for urban travelers.
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Plenty of Jewish kids today grow up with a Christmas tree next to their menorah.
Harry Potter and the Torah of Terror|Candida Moss, Joel Baden|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is the first Christmas I can remember when the news was all about cops and race.
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
So this is Christmas, as the song goes, and what have we done?
No Gods, No Cops, No Masters|James Poulos|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST

And that was well before this Christmas, when he appeared to joke about Obama being a Muslim.
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Beside her was a box of bonbons, which she held out at intervals to Madame Ratignolle.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Now and then the boy who had bought Squinty, and who was taking him home, would look around at his pet in the slatted box.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
The little pig in the box felt himself being lifted out of the wagon.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Mrs. Newbolt was cutting splints for her new sun-bonnet out of a pasteboard box.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
With a hammer the boy knocked off some of the slats of the small box in which Squinty had made his journey.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum