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matchbox /ˈmatʃbɒks /noun1A small box in which matches are sold, with a striking surface on one side.The collection includes a horse so small it was originally sold in a matchbox and an 8ft rocking horse large enough to seat three children at once....- Two computers, about the size of a matchbox, are attached to the side of their parachute to calculate the speed of the descent.
- Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done.
1.1 [as modifier] Very small: her matchbox apartment...- They were sprawls of monotonous matchbox houses devoid of color.
- It sways in the breeze, and while good-looking, proves to be more of matchbox quality than I had thought.
- Unfortunately, most of the houses built in 1980s and early 1990s are the same, which were called matchbox houses.
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