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n. - A container for a child's toys and personal things (especially at a boarding school).

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  • People drew close to one another and in the half-empty city they squeezed together as tight as toys in a playbox.
  • And you keep telling her she can't talk to you like you're just a kid and she's your teacher 'cause playbox is fair play space, and no bullying allowed, read the sign.
  • When every piece in your playbox of verbal bricks can be dealt with separately, because it is not joined on in all sorts of ways to the other pieces, then only can you...
  • He was thirteen; already he had been taunted for dallying overlong about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; the shades of the...
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