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blue box
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blue box also blue-box (blbks)
n. Slang
An electronic device having a tone pulsator that prevents telephone equipment from registering long-distance charges.

blue box
n
Canadian a blue plastic container for domestic refuse that is to be collected and recycled


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Two weeks later I put them out again, only this time there are two blue boxes and one green one, but they only empty one blue box and one green one, so when I got home I still had a blue one full.
We've also done a trial with 20 per cent of the city on blue boxes which has been very well received.
Hundreds of householders in Tamworth, Staffordshire, have been handed new slimline bins because they have failed to put out recycled rubbish in special blue boxes on two occasions.
 
 
 
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