shoebox
nounEtymology From shoe + box.
1
The box in which shoes are sold.
- In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
2
Derogatory, Figuratively A small, cramped residence or similar space.
- She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249:
- Derived terms
- shoeboxful, shoeboxlike