blue boxn.

Brit.

/ˌbluː ˈbɒks/, U.S.

/ˌblu ˈbɑks/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., box n.²

Etymology: < blue adj. + box n.² Formed independently in senses 1 and 2, in each case with reference to the blue colour of the thing denoted.

1. Telecommunications. An electronic device which generates the tones necessary to open long-distance telephone lines, enabling a user to make illicit free calls. Now historical.

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1965 Weirton (W. Va.) Daily Times 26 Jan. 1/7 There are three popular varieties of the fraudulent devices. They are the ‘black, blue and cheese boxes’, so named because of their appearance... The blue box is used by the caller.

1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Sept. 6/1 The illegal phone-dialing devices called ‘blue boxes’ are about to be put out of business.

1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 June i The suspects had placed the calls with electronic devices known as blue boxes.

2002 D. Verton Hacker Diaries i. 5 The tone-generating blue boxes..had been made famous by the first generation of phone phreakers.

2. Originally Canadian. A blue plastic box for the collection of recyclable household items as part of a municipal recycling scheme. Frequently attributive.

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1983 Toronto Star 17 Sept. A16/2 They tried out the blue box system for a year with 250 homes in Kitchener and this month they are expanding it to 35,000 homes.

1990 Daily Tel. 16 May 9/8 The project's organisers plan to issue each of Cardiff's 110,000 households with a blue box in which paper, glass bottles, tin cans and textiles can be separated before collection.

1997 Canad. Interiors Spring 17/3 The kitchen countertop..is made of 60 per cent recycled glass from the Ontario Blue Box Program.

2010 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 4 May 35 If you live in Birmingham you can recycle paper using your blue box.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blue box
释义	blue boxn. Brit. /ˌbluː ˈbɒks/, U.S. /ˌblu ˈbɑks/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., box n.² Etymology: < blue adj. + box n.² Formed independently in senses 1 and 2, in each case with reference to the blue colour of the thing denoted. 1. Telecommunications. An electronic device which generates the tones necessary to open long-distance telephone lines, enabling a user to make illicit free calls. Now historical. ΚΠ 1965 Weirton (W. Va.) Daily Times 26 Jan. 1/7 There are three popular varieties of the fraudulent devices. They are the ‘black, blue and cheese boxes’, so named because of their appearance... The blue box is used by the caller. 1977 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 3 Sept. 6/1 The illegal phone-dialing devices called ‘blue boxes’ are about to be put out of business. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 9 June i The suspects had placed the calls with electronic devices known as blue boxes. 2002 D. Verton Hacker Diaries i. 5 The tone-generating blue boxes..had been made famous by the first generation of phone phreakers. 2. Originally Canadian. A blue plastic box for the collection of recyclable household items as part of a municipal recycling scheme. Frequently attributive. ΚΠ 1983 Toronto Star 17 Sept. A16/2 They tried out the blue box system for a year with 250 homes in Kitchener and this month they are expanding it to 35,000 homes. 1990 Daily Tel. 16 May 9/8 The project's organisers plan to issue each of Cardiff's 110,000 households with a blue box in which paper, glass bottles, tin cans and textiles can be separated before collection. 1997 Canad. Interiors Spring 17/3 The kitchen countertop..is made of 60 per cent recycled glass from the Ontario Blue Box Program. 2010 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 4 May 35 If you live in Birmingham you can recycle paper using your blue box. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1965
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