soapbox
- Noun. (literally) A crate for packing soap, or, by extension, any inexpensive crude platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it, especially when used for speeches.
- Noun. (figuratively, idiomatic) A talk about one's pet topic (or the topic itself,) especially when only tangentially relevant to an ongoing discussion.
- Noun. a soapbox car.
- Verb. To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.
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