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Outlet for a rant
Answer for the clue "Outlet for a rant ", 7 letters:
soapbox
Alternative clues for the word soapbox
- Place to get up and speak your mind
- A platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- Street-corner speaker's platform
- Platform ... or something that appears four times in this puzzle?
- Platform for airing one's views?
- A crate for packing soap
- What a public speaker metaphorically stands on
- Orator's perch
Word definitions for soapbox in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context literally English) A crate for packing soap. 2 (context figuratively English) Any physical or media platform which gives prominence to the person on it and the views they espouse. 3 (context figuratively idiomatic English) A talk about one's ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton. ▪ He was the soapbox orator who could quote Virgil or Shakespeare to give dignity to a bitter grudge. ▪ My first memories of a Leeds match were standing on a soapbox ...
Usage examples of soapbox.
Generals planned strategic air strikes beneath the no-nonsense glow of alternating current, and it was all out of control, like a kid's soapbox racer going downhill with no brakes: I was following my orders.
They stuck together despite their differences, drawn together by the same mysterious attractive force that causes streetcorner crackpots to set up their soapboxes right next to each other.
The prim guild charities with their stalls and leaflets had long hitched their skirts and gone back to Northcentral, the soapbox prophets had returned to their chapels, and even the speakers on the Rights of Mankind had vanished in flurries of leaflets, fights and accusations.
Here was Xavier Maclachlan himself on a soapbox, all jug ears and ten gallon hat, steadily denouncing the manned space program for the sake of the cameras.
Even Blissenhawk and the other orators who rose and fell from their soapboxes in the Easterlies on Noshiftdays would have kept their counsel here.
There'd be chairs, soapboxes for all, or at least carpets to squat on.
They are petty anarchists and God-botherers, the kind of trash you find howling on soapboxes in public parks, or handing out soiled leaflets in front of train stations.