soapbox

[ sohp-boks ]

/ ˈsoʊpˌbɒks /

Also soap box. an improvised platform, as one on a street, from which a speaker delivers an informal speech, an appeal, or political harangue.

of, relating to, or characteristic of a speaker or speech from a soapbox.

Origin of soapbox

First recorded in 1650–60; soap + box¹

Russ and Laddie, riding in their soap-box dog-cart, came along the public road.

Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's |Laura Lee Hope
He came when Russ called him, and he wagged his tail when the boys showed him the soap-box cart and the harness.

Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's |Laura Lee Hope
Manners was back on the soap-box, still as a sphinx, and smoking his pipe.

Aladdin O'Brien |Gouverneur Morris
It was very little happiness that the boy on the soap-box was getting out of anything, that gray December afternoon.

Asa Holmes |Annie Fellows Johnston

On her feet she would barely have reached the rim of the great dish-pan, but on the soap-box she did very well.

The Very Small Person |Annie Hamilton Donnell

soapbox

/ (ˈsəʊpˌbɒks) /

a box or crate for packing soap

a crate used as a platform for speech-making

a child's homemade racing cart consisting of a wooden box set on a wooden frame with wheels and a steerable front axle