See spaghetti box in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"A kind of tall cardboard box in which cassette tapes were originally packaged for retail display to discourage theft."
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"(historical) A kind of tall cardboard box in which cassette tapes were originally packaged for retail display to discourage theft."
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