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crackerbox

n. (context US Canada sometimes derogatory English) An uncomfortably small and boxy house or car.

Usage examples of "crackerbox".

Lennar Homes similarly was let off the hook for its crackerbox construction.

I could follow it inland using my compass, trace its path under some swampy woods and crackerbox developments, out to the parkway, a couple of miles inland.

He had seen the White House on TV a million times, always with a TV reporter standing in front of it, and thought it had a simple crackerbox shape with a verandah bulging out from the long side of it, but from this vantage point he could see that this thing he had always thought of as the White House was just the central unit in a sprawling, far-flung affair.

It was like a simple crackerbox house that the owner kept adding rooms to, until it rambled crazily all over the lot.

Wilson said it had been soldthe last of the original property to goand it was a reasonable assumption that the builders were going to put up more little crackerboxes like the other houses on the street.

It was in one of the new subdivisions west of towna modern split-level, or whatever they were calling the little crackerboxes these days, on a street tightly lined with identical houses.

Through the promenade windows, they saw the crackerbox shape of the hangar, the skeletal mooring mast surrounded by tiny figures in white caps.