unbox verb2 •To remove from a box.The booksellers' tasks were to unbox, shelve, and handle cash. — 2005 •To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed.When a boxing or unboxing operation occurs in code, whether it was implicit or explicit, the IL generated includes the box or unbox command. — 2004 formsunboxed · unboxing · unboxes