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 Translation for 'Lunch-Box' from English to Finnish
NOUN   a lunch box | lunch boxes
eväslaatikko {noun}lunch box
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Translation for 'Lunch-Box' from English to Finnish

lunch box
eväslaatikko {noun}
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Usage Examples English
  • Many restaurants offer tempura as part of a set meal or a "bento" (lunch box), and it is also a popular ingredient in take-out or convenience store "bento" boxes.
  • Die-cast toys were released by Corgi, Topps trading cards, and a painted metal lunch box.
  • The noun form of the term included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1950 refers to use of a "paper bag" instead of a lunch box. William Safire traces this to an article in "Time" magazine.
  • He is also famous for his Big Red Fun Bus and Big Jumbo Fun Plane, A La Carte Kitchen, Polly Pocket, Lucy Locket (A larger version of Polly Pocket) and the Mighty Max range, as well as the invention of the plastic lunch box.
  • MacMullan designed this new character herself and tried to make her seem like a professional bully by having her carry her lunch box with her all the time like a briefcase.

  • The word has been alleged in folk etymology to stem from "dabba", m., box, lunch box, tiffin.
  • This was called a "lunch box" style unlike the typical laptop today.
  • A lunch box (alt. spelling lunchbox) refers to a hand-held container used to transport food, usually to work or to school.
  • "Lunchbox" was inspired by a 1972 law introduced by the Florida Legislature, which made it illegal to carry a metal lunch-box on school grounds.
  • All the food in this Japanese style lunch box is only able to be reduced to fit in a little box due to it being Japanese food; it naturally lends itself to being tightly packed.

  • Roseanne and Jackie's diner "The Lunch Box" has since gone out of business; it is later revealed on an episode of "The Conners" it became an Asian restaurant sometime after 1996.
  • Two promotional figures were also released; an Easter themed Bucky (moulded in chocolate themed colours) and a Corsair Canard Deadeye Duck who was packaged in a promotional steel lunch-box featuring Bucky O'Hare concept art.
  • There were also several coloring books; a flashlight; a punch-out book; a costume for children; a lunch box; a pocket watch; a Space Academy playset with plastic figures; a set of rubber molds for making plaster-of-Paris figures, furniture and vehicles, made by Marx toys; a Little Golden Book; and a Little Golden Record of the Space Academy song ("From the rocket fields of the academy / to the far flung stars of outer space / we are space cadets training to be / ready for dangers we may face").
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