red box

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 documents. UK
    — 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. US
  4. A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted. US,informal
    — See also: severe thunderstorm watch

词形变化

red boxes plural
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