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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soapbox
noun
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▪ 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 with my dad, when we scored a goal.
▪ Nor do the parties offer their constituents soapboxes on which to air their views.
▪ That led to the idea of a dedicated electronic soapbox on the issue.
▪ The Prime Minister was on his soapbox.
▪ Unlike John Major and his soapbox, it is not part of the image.
▪ With his wife Norma beside him, he climbed on to a soapbox to put across his campaign message.
Wiktionary
soapbox

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 pet topic (or the topic itself), especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion. 4 A soapbox car. vb. To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.

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WordNet
soapbox

  1. n. a crate for packing soap

  2. a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump]

Wikipedia
Soapbox

A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods from a manufacturer to a retail store.

The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person engaging in often flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public speaking, as in the phrases "He's on his soapbox", or "Get off your soapbox." Hyde Park, London is known for its Sunday soapbox orators, who have assembled at Speakers' Corner since 1872 to discuss religion, politics, and other topics. A modern form of the soapbox is a blog: a website on which a user publishes their thoughts to whomever they are read by.

Soapbox (disambiguation)

A soapbox is a raised platform from which a speech is delivered.

Soapbox may also refer to:

  • Soapbox (car), a type of motorless vehicle
  • MSN Soapbox, an Internet video service
  • Soapbox ( the Crookes album), released in 2014

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.