rag-box

English

Noun

rag-box (plural rag-boxes)

  1. (obsolete, slang, dysphemistic) A person's mouth.
    • 1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73:
      Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)
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