n. An inexpensive, disposable box-like creation fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material. It is designed to hold things for a short period of time and be discarded or recycled after use.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A kind of thin pasteboard.
n. A box made from such pasteboard.
n. Same as cartoon.
n. In rifle practice: A white disk fixed on the bull's-eye of a target. It is of much smaller size than the bull's-eye, and is chiefly used in deciding ties and at a pool. A shot striking the carton: as, to make two bull's-eyes and a carton.
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n. a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
n. the quantity contained in a carton
Word Usage
"It’s a mix of everyone from the poor to the politicians, from those whose homes are covered in carton to those living behind the gates."