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cardboard

[kahrd-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

  1. a thin, stiff pasteboard, used for signs, boxes, etc.



adjective

  1. resembling cardboard, especially in flimsiness.

    an apartment with cardboard walls.

  2. not fully lifelike; shallow; two-dimensional.

    a play with cardboard characters.

cardboard

/ ˈɑːˌɔː /

noun

    1. a thin stiff board made from paper pulp and used esp for making cartons

    2. ( as modifier )

      cardboard boxes

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. (prenominal) without substance

    a cardboard smile

    a cardboard general

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cardboard1

First recorded in 1840–50; card 1 + board
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“They were called cardboard condos,” said Richardson, a Skid Row leader now known as General Dogon.

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Musician Dennis Henriquez woke up in a doorway in East Hollywood last month, hidden behind cardboard and sheltered by a tarp.

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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.

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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".

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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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