spitbox

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

spit +‎ box

Noun[edit]

spitbox (plural spitboxes)

  1. A vessel to receive spittle; a spittoon.
  2. A barn where racehorses are tested for drugs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spitbox”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)