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unboxing

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Unboxing is the experience of opening a product for the first time. Film an unboxing.

Companies design the packaging for it, down to how slowly a lid lifts. Unboxing videos are watched by millions, which is a fact worth sitting with.

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Definitions of unboxing

  1. 1noununboxingThe experience of opening a product for the first time.B2

    “The unboxing was better than the product.”

unboxing is an experience.

Where it comes from

From unbox + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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unboxing in the wild

  • The first unboxing video, featuring a Nokia E61 cellphone, appeared in 2006, and searches for the term "unboxing" began to surface later that year, according to Google Trends.

    Unboxing

  • Initially, unboxing videos focused primarily on gadgets and fashion items.

    Unboxing

  • Autoboxing is the term for automatically applying boxing and/or unboxing transformations as needed.

    Boxing (computer programming)

  • Lewis George Hilsenteger, known professionally as Unbox Therapy, is a Canadian unboxing and technology YouTuber.

    Unbox Therapy

  • Clint Basinger, better known as LGR (originally an initialism of Lazy Game Reviews), is an American YouTuber who focuses on video game reviews, retrocomputing, and unboxing videos.

    Lazy Game Reviews

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.