squeeze box
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
squeeze box (plural squeeze boxes)
- (caving) A box with an adjustable opening used by cavers to practise crawl#Verb|crawling through tight spaces.
- 1998 July, Andrew Todhunter, “Dark Passage: Descending into the Depths of California’s Longest Known Cave”, in The Atlantic Monthly[https://web.archive.org/web/20150921030038/http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jul/caving.htm], volume 282, number 1, archived from the original ↗ on 21 September 2015, pages 90–94; reprinted in Dangerous Games: Ice Climbing, Storm Kayaking, and other Adventures from the Extreme Edge of Sports, 1st Anchor Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, November 2001, ISBN 978-0-385-48644-6, pages 61–62:
- At caving conventions aboveground, cavers often squirrel themselves through adjustable wooden "squeeze boxes" in good-natured competitions. In the safety of this controlled setting, cavers may push their capacities far beyond what they might hazard underground; […] A very slender woman's tightest squeeze may be defined by the width of her skull turned sideways. Some women thus emerge from squeeze boxes, triumphant, with mirrored abrasions over their cheekbones.
- 1998 July, Andrew Todhunter, “Dark Passage: Descending into the Depths of California’s Longest Known Cave”, in The Atlantic Monthly[https://web.archive.org/web/20150921030038/http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98jul/caving.htm], volume 282, number 1, archived from the original ↗ on 21 September 2015, pages 90–94; reprinted in Dangerous Games: Ice Climbing, Storm Kayaking, and other Adventures from the Extreme Edge of Sports, 1st Anchor Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Random House, November 2001, ISBN 978-0-385-48644-6, pages 61–62:
- (veterinary medicine) A container that fit#Verb|fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.
- Alternative form of squeezebox.
- Synonym of hug machine#English|hug machine or hugbox.
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