squeeze box

noun squeeze boxes · squeezebox

1. informal An accordion or concertina. Mama's got a squeeze box she wears on her chest. / From when Daddy comes home, he never gets no rest. / Because she's playing all night, and the music's all right.
2. 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 sq
3. 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
4. Synonym of hugbox (“a therapeutic device”).

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