: a small space and especially a small living space
The loft, almost an hour from her house by tube, is a shoebox with 18-foot ceilings, white and blue, with odds and ends of mismatched furniture … Michael Kimmelman
—often used before another noun
a shoebox apartmentSince commercial real estate was cheaper, art galleries and Off Off Off Broadway theaters could spring up in shoebox storefronts. James Wolcott