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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
Each day, the strikers set up an area near the campus dining hall, with a cardboard sign marking each day of the strike.
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.
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