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cardboard
English
Etymology
card +? board
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k??db??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k??db??d/
Noun
cardboard (countable and uncountable, plural cardboards)
- A wood-based material resembling heavy paper, used in the manufacture of boxes, cartons and signs.
Usage notes
Despite widespread general use in English, the term cardboard is deprecated in commerce and industry as not adequately defining a specific product.
Derived terms
- cardboard box
- cardboard city
- cardboard cut-out, cardboard cutout
Translations
See also
- paperboard
References
Adjective
cardboard
- Made of or resembling cardboard; (figuratively) flat or flavorless.
- 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk, page 114:
- The worst of the thing, however, is that the enormity, such as it is, happens to be of a very cardboard and tinsel character.
- 1973, Journal of Black Poetry, Issue 17, page 27:
- The thing really looked quite cardboard.
- Twentieth-Century Scottish Drama, page 501:
- MUMMER 3 pulls out an inflated cushion with a very cardboard crown on it.
- 1868, Arthur William A'Beckett, "Painted Ships and Painted Oceans", The Tomahawk, page 114:
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