airbox
noun
airbox is a noun meaning “The chamber in a car or motorcycle engine that draws in air and distributes it to the carburettors” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-I-R-B-O-X, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of airbox is airboxes.
What does airbox mean?
noun
- 1
informalThe chamber in a car or motorcycle engine that draws in air and distributes it to the carburettors.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of airbox
- airboxes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is airbox?
Airbox appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does airbox come from?
From air + box.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).