green box

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Noun

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green box (plural green boxes)

  1. (now historical) An upper box in a theatre. [from 18th c.]
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXCIV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: [], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: [] S[amuel] Richardson;  [], →OCLC:
      And we shall sit in the gallery green-box.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18:
      I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore.
  2. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade. [from 20th c.]
  3. A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone.

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(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):