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boom box

noun

Informal.
  1. a large, powerful portable radio and often cassette or CD player.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of boom box1

First recorded in 1980–85
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A Dead Kennedys song plays on a radio boom box, as a bell rings a brief warning each time a cylinder turns.

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I stuck in another CD, this time from Gran’s personal stack by the boom box.

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The artists gathered in the lunch area and began gyrating to tunes from a boom box.

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Watching him come out on a bare stage with a boom box and say, "I've got a tape I want to play," or ask, "Does anybody have any questions?" is charming.

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Passersby walked on as a boom box tied to the car’s roof repeatedly blared the words “The Ixil people do remember” and played the judge’s genocide verdict.

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