Tinderbox meaning
A metal box for holding tinder.
noun
A potentially explosive place or situation.
Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
noun
A metal box for holding tinder, flint, and steel for starting a fire.
noun
Any highly flammable object, structure, etc.
noun
A place or situation likely to be the source of a flare-up of trouble, war, etc.
noun
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