rag-box

English

Noun

rag-box (plural rag-boxes)

1. (obsolete, slang, dysphemistic) A person's mouth.
   • 1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73:

     Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Rudyard Kipling to this entry?)