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cardboard
[kahrd-bawrd, -bohrd]
noun
a thin, stiff pasteboard, used for signs, boxes, etc.
adjective
resembling cardboard, especially in flimsiness.
an apartment with cardboard walls.
not fully lifelike; shallow; two-dimensional.
a play with cardboard characters.
cardboard
/ ˈɑːˌɔː /
noun
a thin stiff board made from paper pulp and used esp for making cartons
( as modifier )
cardboard boxes
adjective
(prenominal) without substance
a cardboard smile
a cardboard general
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of cardboard1
Example Sentences
“They were called cardboard condos,” said Richardson, a Skid Row leader now known as General Dogon.
Musician Dennis Henriquez woke up in a doorway in East Hollywood last month, hidden behind cardboard and sheltered by a tarp.
The cardboard packaging has a couple of tears in it, but is described as being in "mint" condition having been kept out of the light and upright over the years.
Among the growing piles of neatly stored cardboard, papers and blister packs, she said if the strike went on any longer, she would "learn to live with it".
More of the animals — some kittens as young as a week old — were found squeezed into cardboard boxes in the back.
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