spaghetti box

English

Etymology

From the resemblance to the boxes in which spaghetti is sold.

Noun

spaghetti box (plural spaghetti boxes)

  1. (historical) A kind of tall cardboard box in which cassette tapes were originally packaged for retail display to discourage theft.
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