(verb transitive; present-progressive, "shine-boxing;" past tense, "shine-boxed"): To repeatedly taunt and insinuate another person on a sensitive topic to the point that the insulted party becomes violently angry.
Billy Batts shine-boxes Tommy in the film "Goodfellas" by continuing to refer to Tommy's past, in spite of Tommy's repeated requests for Batts to stop. This reaches a climax when a pretense to be respectful is shattered as Batts yells loud enough for everyone in the bar to hear, "Now go home and get your fucking shine box!"
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From the movie Goodfellas. Billie Bats tells Joe Pesci's character to "Go get your shine box" because he used to shine the gangsters shoes.
1: A way of putting someone in their place
2: Telling someone to go fuck themselves
3: Another way of saying "Fuck You" without saying "Fuck You"
4: Letting some one who thinks they are "big time" know you remember when they weren't shit.
1: A way of putting someone in their place
2: Telling someone to go fuck themselves
3: Another way of saying "Fuck You" without saying "Fuck You"
4: Letting some one who thinks they are "big time" know you remember when they weren't shit.
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Get the get your shine box mug.A drink mainly drank on the West coast of Ireland. It must contain exactly 2 shots of Vodka, 1 shot of Tequila and an indeterminate amount of an orange flavored drink.
Failure by the bar person to make it correctly requires you to throw it back at them while hurling abuse until you are ejected from the establishment.
Failure by the bar person to make it correctly requires you to throw it back at them while hurling abuse until you are ejected from the establishment.
Mad Mike: "Can I have two Tequila Shine Boxes."
Bar Man: "Whats that?"
Mad Mike: "If ya don't know that ya can go home and get you f*#king shine box."
Bar Man: "Whats that?"
Mad Mike: "If ya don't know that ya can go home and get you f*#king shine box."
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Get the I’ll shine your box mug.Here's shiny metal boxes for you urban dictionary; go fuck yourself, you piece of goddam motherfucking shit fuck you, fuck you, go to hell, fuck you, fuck your whole goddam motherfucking life
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Get the Shiny Metal Boxes mug.1. The act of insulting someone via a reference to an embarrassing event in their past. The term was popularized by a scene in "Goodfellas" in which Billy Batts admonishes Tommy DeVito for his subservient childhood job by exclaiming "go home and get your f**kin shinebox."
2. Attacking someone for previous shameful actions, giving the impression said acts are indelible.
2. Attacking someone for previous shameful actions, giving the impression said acts are indelible.
Mike opted to avoid attending his high school reunion, knowing they'd remember his loss of bladder control in gym class and be shineboxing him all night.
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