carton

Meanings

Noun

• An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
• A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
• A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
• A kind of thin pasteboard.
• A small disc within the bullseye of a target.
• A shot that strikes this disc.

Verb

• To put in a carton.

Origin

• Borrowed from French carton, from Italian cartone. cartoon.