English Dictionary

squeeze box

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskwiːzbɒks/

名詞

別表記 異形

(caving) A box with an adjustable opening used by cavers to practise crawling through tight spaces.

日本語の意味

洞窟探検家が、狭い空間を這う練習のために使用する、開口部が調節可能な箱

Before the spelunking course, the instructor had us practice by crawling through the squeeze box to get used to tight passages.

洞窟探検の講習の前に、指導者は狭い場所に慣れるために、開口部が調節できる練習用の箱を這って通る練習をさせました。

意味（1）

(caving) A box with an adjustable opening used by cavers to practise crawling through tight spaces.

At caving conventions aboveground, cavers often squirrel themselves through adjustable wooden squeeze boxes in good-natured competitions. In the safety of this controlled setting, cavers may push their capacities far beyond what they might hazard underground; […] A very slender woman's tightest squeeze may be defined by the width of her skull turned sideways. Some women thus emerge from squeeze boxes, triumphant, with mirrored abrasions over their cheekbones.

意味（2）

(veterinary medicine) A container that fits tightly around an animal to immobilize it for medical treatment, transportation, etc.

Jebby rushed to the area behind the mare's paddock. What he saw there filled him with fresh concern. Isabella was in the squeeze box. This, he knew, was a strait jacket for animals! […] He had seen the old squeeze box sitting in the field behind the hoofed animals' paddock. Zoo keepers had used it in the days before the invention of the Tranquilizer Gun for immobilizing animals when they wanted to inoculate them or treat them for illness or injury. If the squeeze box were used unwisely, a Zoo keeper had told Jebby, an animal inside it could be squeezed almost to death. And it always caused panic as the wooden sides pressed against the trapped creature's body.

意味（3）

Alternative form of squeezebox (“musical instrument”).

意味（4）

Synonym of hug machine or hugbox.

squeeze boxes （ plural ）