rag-box

rag-box (plural rag-boxes)

1. (obsolete, slang, dysphemistic) A person's mouth.
   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 46:

     You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay

   • 1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73:

     Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.