purple box

English

Noun

purple box (plural purple boxes)

A device used in phreaking that adds a hold facility to a telephone line.

Coordinate terms

(colored boxes, especially electronic ones):

beige box
black box
blue box
brown box
gray box
green box
orange box
purple box
red box
silver box
white box
yellow box

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