tinderbox

Meaning of tinderbox

noun
  1. A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
    "Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there."
  2. (by extension) a place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
    "Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work."
  3. (by extension) a potentially dangerous situation.
    "This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe."

Information about tinderbox

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of tinderbox is: tinderboxes.
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Hyphenation of tinderbox

tin-der-box

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • tinderbox is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with tinderbox

gearbox, naphthacenecarbox, tarbox, butterbox, chatterbox, letterbox, pepperbox, thunderbox, tuckerbox, underbox

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