Word info

red box

Noun

Meaning

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

(US, military) A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.

(informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.
See also: severe thunderstorm watch

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut. Todd Solondz

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