out of the box

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out of the box

/æɔt əv ðə bɒks/ Australia
/æʊt əv ðə bɒks/ Australia
/ʌʊt əv ðə bɑːks/ Canada
/aʊt əv ðə bɒks/ UK
/ɘʉt əv ðə bɒks/ Scotland
/aʊt əv ðə bɑːks/ US

Rhymes with -ɒks

phrase out-of-the-box

Of a product, immediately, without intervention from the customer. This software has to work out of the box, without any fancy installation.
Similar: off the shelf
figuratively Outside the box; unconventionally: outside the limits of conventional thinking. He started out with the rather obvious alternative of talking to Junior; Hesh’s scheme was more imaginative; and Tony’s idea of torching the restaurant really is out of the box.
Similar: laterally, outside the box, outside of the box, OOTB
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See out of, the, box.

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prep_phrase (idiom) immediately, without intervention from the customer

Français	au déballage
Deutsch	(direkt) einsatzfähig, gebrauchsfertig, von der Stange
Русский	из коро́бки iz koróbki

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@misc{out_of_the_box_2026,
  title = {out of the box},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/out%20of%20the%20box},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}