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Noun
[edit]- A phreaking device that generates tones to simulate the insertion of coins into a payphone, thus enabling the user to make illegitimate free calls.
- (UK politics) A secure briefcase-like box used by ministers in the British government to carry their documents.
- Coordinate term: dispatch box
- 2013 September 9, Ben Quinn, “No 10 denies David Cameron red box security breach”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- (US, military) A safe located at a nuclear installation containing launch codes.
- (informal, US, meteorology) A "tornado watch" notification, indicating that conditions might lead to a tornado though none has yet been sighted.
- See also: severe thunderstorm watch
Coordinate terms
[edit](colored boxes, especially electronic ones):