Definition of "lunch pail" [lunch pail]

• A lunchbox (container). (noun)

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• "I had often been amused by Mr. Hodges's departure for work in the evening; his security-guard uniform neatly pressed, gray hair jutting out from under his cap, black lunch pail gripped firmly under his arm."
• "Finally Pete climbed off him, opened Eli's book bag and scattered everything, set his lunch pail on the ground and stomped it into scrap metal."
• "Forward Cedric Maxwell, a Finals MVP three years earlier, put on his hard hat, placed a lunch pail in his hands, and told his teammates to climb aboard his back; he alone would carry the team home to its fifteenth championship."