strong-box

English

Noun

strong-box (plural strong-boxes)

1. Alternative form of strongbox
   • c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 3:

     Domin
     
     [Hoarsely]: Where's old Rossum's manuscript?
     
     Busman
     
     In your strong-box, of course.