Definitions

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  • noun A load stored in a crate; a crateful.

Etymologies

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crate +‎ load

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Examples

  • They sent thousands and thousands of baby booties–by the crateload–tohis office and he begged me many times to make them stop.

    Comic-Con: 'Knight Rider' gets rebooted (again); 'Las Vegas' seeks a resolution | EW.com 2008

  • Why they omitted "gouge their eyes out with forks," "clamp electrodes to testicles," or "ship them to Gitmo by the crateload," I don't know.

    - Boing Boing 2005

  • She bought pictures, manuscripts, and jewels, and the loot came, in crateload after crateload, winding its way northward toward her palace in Stockholm.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • She bought pictures, manuscripts, and jewels, and the loot came, in crateload after crateload, winding its way northward toward her palace in Stockholm.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • She bought pictures, manuscripts, and jewels, and the loot came, in crateload after crateload, winding its way northward toward her palace in Stockholm.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • She bought pictures, manuscripts, and jewels, and the loot came, in crateload after crateload, winding its way northward toward her palace in Stockholm.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • Snakes on a Plane, next year's B-movie extravaganza starring Samuel L. Jackson as a Fed protecting a witness on a flight to Los Angeles aboard which a crateload of deadly reptiles has been set loose.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Snakes on a Plane, next year's B-movie extravaganza starring Samuel L. Jackson as a Fed protecting a witness on a flight to Los Angeles aboard which a crateload of deadly reptiles has been set loose.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Snakes on a Plane, next year's B-movie extravaganza starring Samuel L. Jackson as a Fed protecting a witness on a flight to Los Angeles aboard which a crateload of deadly reptiles has been set loose.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Snakes on a Plane, next year's B-movie extravaganza starring Samuel L. Jackson as a Fed protecting a witness on a flight to Los Angeles aboard which a crateload of deadly reptiles has been set loose.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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