shoebox

noun

shoe·box ˈshü-ˌbäks

variants or less commonly shoe box

: a box that shoes are sold in

a shoebox full of old photographs

: a small space and especially a small living space

The loft, almost an hour from her house by tube, is a shoebox with 18-foot ceilings, white and blue, with odds and ends of mismatched furniture …—

Michael Kimmelman

—often used before another noun

a shoebox apartment

Since commercial real estate was cheaper, art galleries and Off Off Off Broadway theaters could spring up in shoebox storefronts.—

James Wolcott

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Instead, FedEx got the call and this beautiful roundball—sans air—was shoved into a shoebox. —

Brett Owens, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 But Andrés Vanegas and his brother, Rubén, amateur paleontologists from La Victoria, a small town north of the desert, collected fossils from the area and kept them in shoeboxes and plastic containers. —

Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 17 July 2024 Shoebox race Tape lids securely to shoeboxes and cut slits in the top about 1 inch wide and 4 inches long. —

Catherine Holecko, Parents, 30 July 2024 Then the next player on the team hops into the shoeboxes for their turn. —

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