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nounshoutbox (plural shoutboxes)
plural shoutboxes
- InternetdatedA tagboard.
Embed a shoutbox in your blog/website for your visitors to interact among themselves.
2010, Erika Blanchard, Appity Slap: A Small Business Guide to Web Apps, Tech Tools and Cloud Computing1 more example
They avail themselves of multiple communicative platforms across the Internet: blogs, social networks, comments, discussion forums, private messages, shoutboxes, MP3 files, and videos.
2007, Nancy K. Baym, The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish independent music fandom
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shoutbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoutbox
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“shoutbox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoutbox. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoutbox,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoutbox.
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