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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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cardboard1
Example Sentences
Behind him, cardboard boxes of unsold biscuit packets and snacks show a "stock clearance sale" sign posted on them.
Hamzisah Aslam, an occupational therapist at Birmingham Council, recalls visiting one patient with health and alcohol problems, whose home was littered with cardboard boxes and rubbish.
After taking time to recover, Torres finally arrived in Tijuana in December, where she slept atop a cardboard box on the street while making repeated and increasingly dangerous attempts to enter the U.S.
It’s the only place where Stitch, Tom Cruise and Toothless the dragon all face off in a cardboard cutout standoff.
If you don't have access to eclipse glasses, you can create a simple pinhole camera with just two sheets of cardboard or even use a colander to project the Sun's image safely onto the ground.
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