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footlocker

[ foot-lok-er ]

noun

  1. a small trunk designed to be kept at the foot of a bed, especially to contain a soldier's personal effects.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of footlocker1

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45; foot + locker
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“I was basically told that everything I believed was rubbish, and that I should be ripping up bits of cardboard and locking myself in footlockers overnight and bending every rule.”

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He wrote his own jokes and carried 15 footlockers of props.

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The trailer was carrying materials from a jewelry show in San Mateo to another exhibition in Pasadena when 20 large footlockers of valuable jewelry were stolen.

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His badly burned remains were found in a metal footlocker near a blueberry field in western Michigan’s Ottawa County, but the remains were not identified as those of Caraballo until 2015.

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The unarmed campus cop on guard duty when Whitman drove on campus could have checked his claim that the footlocker in his back seat contained equipment for the science building.

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