breadbox

• bread box, bread-box

From bread + box.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛd.bɒks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: bäks, IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɛd.bɑks/
• Rhymes: -ɒks

breadbox (plural breadboxes)

1. A container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh.

   Synonym: bread bin (UK)

2. (computing, slang) A Commodore 64 computer.
   • 2010, Barry Voeten, Colourcash, page 14:

     We had a computer at school, a Commodore 64. The thing had hardly any memory, not even one thousandth of an mp3-player kids use nowadays. To load a game you had to insert a cassette which transmitted a code by means of an endless series of beeps to a brown case we called "the bread box".

   • 2020, Holger Weßling, Impossible Mission I & II - The Official Guide:

     That's why he gave him a Commodore 64 in 1983. […] Nick […] had converted his cupboards so that the shelf in which the bread box was located could be pulled out a little. So the head was nicely in line with the TV.