red box

noun

Definitions

  1. A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a…

    A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.

  2. A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their…

    A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.

    • Downing Street has rejected suggestions that David Cameron might have caused a security breach by briefly leaving his official ministerial red box unaccompanied on the table of a train carriage.
  3. A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though…

      A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.

      • See also: severe thunderstorm watch

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