snorkel box
n.— «We find that roughly a third of our complaints are about other things…maybe the location of a cubside [sic] “snorkel” box.» —“Why Postal Rates Will Go Up Again” U.S. News & World Report Mar. 17, 1975. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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