- boom box
- nouna portable stereo• Syn: ↑ghetto blaster• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism• Hypernyms: ↑stereo, ↑stereophony, ↑stereo system, ↑stereophonic system
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noun: a large portable radio and often tape player with two attached speakers — called also box ghetto blaster* * *
a large, powerful portable radio and often CD or cassette player.[1980-85]* * *
a ghetto blasterThesaurus: machines for playing sound or pictureshyponym general words for machinery and equipmenthypernym* * *
boom box,a large portable radio, often combined with a cassette player; ghetto blaster: »First there was the boom box—big, bad and blaring (Time).
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n. informal a portable sound system, typically including radio and cassette or CD player, capable of powerful soundteenagers dance to boom boxes on warm April nights
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noun, pl ⋯ boxes [count]: a large portable radio and often tape deck or CD player with two attached speakers* * *
Useful english dictionary. 2012.