box-like

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English

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Etymology

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From box +‎ -like.

Adjective

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box-like (comparative more box-like, superlative most box-like)

  1. Alternative form of boxlike.
    • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Down Town Back-alleys”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 31:
      Once inside it widens, but only to make room for a big box-like building with the worn and greasy look of the slum tenement that is stamped alike on the houses and their tenants down here, []
    • 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 302:
      The majority of locomotive bodies have vertical sides, partly to simplify construction and partly to make the utmost use of the permissible loading gauge. This tends to produce a box-like appearance, which is uninteresting in itself but can be improved [...].