Meanings
nounrag-box (plural rag-boxes)
plural rag-boxes
- obsoleteslangA person's mouth.
You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay
1892, Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 461 more example
Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.
1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73
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