Definition of "matchbox" []

• A box in which to keep matches. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The opinion of this report on what is currently taking place in Zimbabwe might be called matchbox rattling."
• "Both women enter the hut, and coarse hands unused to dealing with small articles tremblingly lift the lid of a matchbox, which is a rarity in the Caucasus."
• "Inside the matchbox was a cricket that proceeded to chirp at me."