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dabba

dabba

9.8
A metal container used to carry a hot homemade lunch
  • noun
  • Indian
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  • The restaurant served their takeout meals in a traditional metal dabba.

Examples

  • We are back again with another eated or eated episode and today the theme is blue Dabba Dee, dabba dab.

  • After school, she would always have her snacks in a colorful dabba.

  • We are back again with another eat it or eat it episode and today the theme is Blue Dabba D Dabba die.

  • He packed his homemade curry in a dabba for lunch at work.

Synonyms

tin
vsdabba
113 1.0

A metal container for keeping food or small things

is the Indian metal lunch carrier specific to meals not general storage
lunchbox
vsdabba
15 1.0

A container for carrying food to eat at work or school

is the metal Indian version used specifically to carry meals
lunch pail
vsdabba
  • US
3 2.5

A box with a handle for carrying lunch to work or school

is the metal Indian version rather than a handled carrier
dinner pail
vsdabba
  • US
5.9

A small metal container workers use to carry lunch to work

is the Indian metal meal carrier not specifically a worker's pail
dinner bucket
vsdabba
  • Archaic
6.8

A container that workers use to carry their lunch or dinner to work

is the Indian metal meal carrier rather than a job site bucket

How Big

food hamper
  • UK
2.8
cooler
  • US
14 2.0
dabba
  • Indian
9.8
tin can
7 1.0

Surface Forms

dabba singular
dabbas plural

Etymology

Dabba comes from the Hindi and Urdu word dabba, which simply means 'box' or 'container'. In India it often means a metal lunchbox used to carry meals, so the origin helps you remember that a dabba is a lunch box.