footlocker
noun
a small trunk designed to be kept at the foot of a bed, especially to contain a soldier's personal effects.
footlockers
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pluralof footlocker.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“I was basically told that everything I believed was rubbish, and that I should be ripping up bits of cardboard and locking myself in footlockers overnight and bending every rule.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
They sat on banquettes around the walls and used footlockers beneath them.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 6, 2020
Here and there, the tidy rows were broken by the presence of much smaller coffins, some no larger than footlockers.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2014
On election day, 94% of the more than 9,000,000 eligible voters trooped to South Korea's 6,342 polling places to mark their ballots with inked bamboo sticks and drop them into large boxes resembling footlockers.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of my first recollections of you was at a Company inspection in which all the footlockers were open for inspection.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
