boom box
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of boom box
First recorded in 1980–85
Example Sentences
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She’s wearing ladybug pajama bottoms and a White Sox T-shirt, a strange match for the elegant song blasting from her purple boom box.
From Literature
Swift said that podcast clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".
From BBC
She said the clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".
From BBC
A Dead Kennedys song plays on a radio boom box, as a bell rings a brief warning each time a cylinder turns.
From Los Angeles Times
I stuck in another CD, this time from Gran’s personal stack by the boom box.
From Literature
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