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tinderbox

 noun
     
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tin‧der‧box
1 [countable usually singular] a place or situation that is dangerous and where there could suddenly be a lot of fighting or problems:
The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war.
2 [countable]D a box containing things needed to make a flame, used in the past
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