Definitions for pillbox

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pillbox pill·box

Spelling: [pil-boks]

IPA: /ˈpɪlˌbɒks/

Pillbox is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in pillbox (billopx).

Definitions for pillbox

noun

1. a box, usually shallow and often round, for holding pills.
2. a small, low structure of reinforced concrete, enclosing machine guns, and employed as a minor fortress in warfare.
3. a small, round, brimless hat with straight sides and a flat top, worn especially by women.

Origin of pillbox

First recorded in 1720-30; pill¹ + box¹

Examples for pillbox

Terry is still haunted by the memory of flushing out a German pillbox.

Satisfied that no pillbox stood behind any of them, he pulled open the two drawers and tumbled their contents about.

Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat.

At this interesting crisis Dr. pillbox (evidently a most attentive practitioner) arrived to pay a second visit.

While wearing one of her own dresses, Victoria Beckham wore a pillbox Philip Treacy hat.

Princess Eugenie's sculptural piece by Philip Treacy, Victoria Beckham's pillbox, and more over-the-top headgear from the wedding!

Not since Jackie O. made pearls and pillbox hats de rigueur has a First Lady had the contagious style of Michelle Obama.

The policeman, now yelling and shaking his fist, started to exit his pillbox and walk toward me.