dinner pail

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   a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner

   Synonymsdinner bucket

   Broaderbucket

Questions about dinner pail

What does dinner pail mean?

dinner pail means "a pail in which a workman carries his lunch or dinner".

What is another word for dinner pail?

Close synonyms include dinner bucket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dinner pail a common word?

dinner pail is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.