A container into which passengers can vomit, formerly provided on aircraft and ships.
Roy staggered off to his dressing-room, where he did something that was usually done into a strawberry box
Example sentencesExamples
He wouldn't have known what a strawberry-box was, I thought. He kept looking up at me anxiously, obviously expecting me to be sick, too.
There ain't no strawberry box in easy reach when yer asleep, yer simply got to get out quick, an' heave it to the deep when yer sick.
The pilot, a married man himself, was properly sympathetic when confronted with the ruins, and thenceforward all Qantas planes were equipped with "strawberry boxes".
I can remember my mother telling me that she asked the steward for some "strawberry boxes" to be told, "Nobody gets ill on our ships, Madam."
I think seasickness did affect us. We were provided with what were known as strawberry boxes.