cardboard

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1. cardboard - Noun

2. cardboard - Adjective

3. cardboard - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A stiff compact pasteboard of various qualities, for making cards, etc., often having a polished surface.

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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. Erma Bombeck

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box. Ellen Goodman

I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor. Pierre Schaeffer

You're like a priest who awakens one day and realizes that his god has been replaced by a cardboard cut-out, and he's no longer able to ignore his own disbelief. And, like the priest, you've sacrificed all hope of a normal life on the altar of something you no longer believe in. Charles Stross

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine. Toots Thielemans

[to Rupert Grint] Look at the great city of LA stretched out in front of you, son: there's dangerous people living in that cardboard backdrop.[specific citation needed]. Craig Ferguson

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