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Word: soapbox (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • a soapbox car
  • idiom A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself,) especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion.
  • 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.

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Verb:

  • To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.

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