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cardboard
[ kahrd-bawrd, -bohrd ]
noun
- a thin, stiff pasteboard, used for signs, boxes, etc.
adjective
- resembling cardboard, especially in flimsiness:
an apartment with cardboard walls.
- not fully lifelike; shallow; two-dimensional:
a play with cardboard characters.
cardboard
/ ˈɑːˌɔː /
noun
- a thin stiff board made from paper pulp and used esp for making cartons
- ( as modifier )
cardboard boxes
adjective
- prenominal without substance
a cardboard smile
a cardboard general
Word History and Origins
Origin of cardboard1
Example Sentences
It is full of litter and we are deep in seemingly empty cardboard boxes.
Police said the man looked to be holding a smoldering cardboard box and “was acting erratic.”
The assault rifles and pistols arrived in Haiti stashed in two cardboard boxes, nestled among packages of food and clothes, on a cargo ship stacked with rust-red shipping containers.
An "unsecured" penguin in a cardboard box was the cause of a helicopter crash in South Africa, a report into the incident has found.
However, he did employ artificial intelligence to create the video for Spike Island, which animates the infamous "cardboard cut-out" figures who appear on the cover of Pulp's biggest album, Different Class.
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