"cheese box" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "(phreaking device): The device could originally be fitted into a wooden box intended for cheese. Compare blue box.",
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      "form": "cheese boxes",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "extra": "container for cheese",
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        "Alternative form of cheesebox (“container for cheese”)"
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          "ref": "1967, William Surface, Inside Internal Revenue",
          "text": "Then the bookie leaves the site of the phone and stations himself blocks away in another room with a phone attached to a similar cheese box.",
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          "ref": "1978, Bell telephone magazine, volumes 57-58",
          "text": "The cheese box bridges two separate telephone lines. It is often used by bookmakers and bettors to place free calls for accepting or placing bets.",
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          "ref": "2009, Emmanuel Goldstein, The Best of 2600, Collector's Edition: A Hacker Odyssey, page 40",
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  "word": "cheese box"
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  "etymology_text": "(phreaking device): The device could originally be fitted into a wooden box intended for cheese. Compare blue box.",
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