boom box

boom box
noun
a portable stereo
• Syn: ↑ghetto blaster
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
• Hypernyms: ↑stereo, ↑stereophony, ↑stereo system, ↑stereophonic system

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noun
Etymology: boom + box (II) (IV); from its use at high volume in public places
: a large portable radio and often tape player with two attached speakers — called also box ghetto blaster

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a large, powerful portable radio and often CD or cassette player.
[1980-85]

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boom box UK US noun [countable] [singular boom box plural boom boxes] mainly american informal
a ghetto blaster
Thesaurus: machines for playing sound or pictureshyponym general words for machinery and equipmenthypernym

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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 sound

teenagers 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

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ˈboom box f7 [boom box] noun (especially NAmE)

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  • boom box — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms boom box : singular boom box plural boom boxes mainly American informal a ghetto blaster …   English dictionary

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