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
Men lived out of footlockers which they bought themselves, wore civilian shoes, frequently ate food prepared by ill-trained cooks, supervised by ill-trained mess sergeants.
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
