green box

== English == === Noun === green box (plural green boxes) (now historical) An upper box in a theatre. [from 18th c.] 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 18: I told her the strength of my purse, and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful spring of thirteen, stuck up in a green box with a blazing whore. A class of subsidies allowed by the World Trade Organization understood to cause minimal disruption to trade. [from 20th c.] A device used in phreaking to produce various tones (coin collect, coin return, and ringback) that allow illicit control of a payphone. ==== Coordinate terms ==== (colored boxes, especially electronic ones):