Soap box 9


1.

any box used as a platform by a person making an informal speech to a street audience.

 
  1. LOOKING.TO.THE.UNSEEN. - CLEVELAND.OH 50-0816 E-19 019
   

And I said, "Well, maybe the Lord wants me to preach right here on the street corner." And I went in and give a man a dime for an old soap box that I could stand on. I went out; I didn't know what to do but just go to Milltown. That was all I knew.

 
2.

Characteristic of speakers who speak informally to a street audience or of their speeches.

 
  1. SEAL.OF.GOD. - JEFF.IN V-26 N-4 54-0514 209 083
   

And Peter, that little holy-roller, soap box preacher, slipped him out a soap box, and jumps up on it; said, "You men of Judaea, and you that dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and hearken to my voice.

 
3.

a box or carton for soap; a crate that holds soap.

 
  1. REDEMPTION.IN.COMPLETENESS. - LVL.KY V-25 N-8 54-0330
   

One day, dad went back and sat on a culvert, said, "I want to see you swim." The little pond was about that deep. I was standing on a soap box. I stripped off my belongings, and got on my nose like this, and sprang up-and-down on the soap box and hit, the mud flew both ways, and I begin to splash the mud.

 

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