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noun (soapboxes)
- (context, literal) A crate for packing soap, or, by extension, any inexpensive crude platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it, especially when used for speeches.
- The madman obtained a which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophesy of the end of the world.
- (context, figurative, idiom) A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself,) especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion.
Translations: - French: tribune, estrade
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Etymology: soap + box
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