lunch pail

See also: lunchpail

English

Alternative forms

• lunchpail

Etymology

lunch +‎ pail

Noun

lunch pail (plural lunch pails)

1. (US) A lunchbox (food container) shaped more or less like a bucket with a handle.

   Synonym: lunch bucket

2. (US, figurative) Someone doing work that needs to be done in an unpretentious, down-to-earth manner; (originally) a blue-collar worker.
   • 2024 February 12, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show:

     The work of making this world resemble one that you would prefer to live in is a lunch pail fucking job, day in and day out, where thousands of committed, anonymous, smart and dedicated people bang on closed doors and pick up those that are fallen and grind away on issues till they get a positive result.

Translations

lunchbox — see lunchbox

References

Grant Barrett, editors (2004), “lunchpail”, in The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 172.

Anagrams

• unphallic