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dog box

noun

  1. informal.
    a compartment in a railway carriage with no corridor
  2. informal.
    disgrace; disfavour (in the phrase in the dog box )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Charles did not, this time, make his journey in the dog-box.

Flew at the porter fellow when he was put into the dog-box, and flew at the guard when he was taken out.

Oswald told her in one calm word which he was, and then Pincher rolled madly out of a dog-box almost into his arms.

He swung a swag on to the platform, shouldered it, pulled out a billy and water-bag, and then went to a dog-box in the brake van.

That ass must needs go dragging him out of the dog-box or something, that's all.

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