boom box

boom box
A portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.

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  • Boom Box — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Boom Box compilación de No Doubt Publicación 26 de noviembre de 2003 Grabación 1992 2003 …   Wikipedia Español

  • boom box — boom′ box or boom′box n. cvs a large, powerful portable radio and often CD or cassette player • Etymology: 1980–85 …   From formal English to slang

  • boom box — boom boxes N COUNT A boom box is a large portable machine for playing music, especially one that is played loudly in public by young people. [mainly AM, INFORMAL] (in BRIT, use ghetto blaster) …   English dictionary

  • boom box — oom box n. a large portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver. It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes. Syn: ghetto… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • boom box — [n] portable music machine audio system, CD player, ghetto blaster*, ghetto box*, radio, stereo, tape player; concept 463 …   New thesaurus

  • boom box — n AmE informal a ↑ghetto blaster …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • boom box — boom ,box noun count INFORMAL a CD PLAYER or CASSETTE PLAYER that can be carried around …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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

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

  • boom box — n. a portable stereo radio. (See also box, thunderbox.) □ Turn down that damn boom box, or I’ll kick it in. □ Hey, man! You even gonna take your boom box to church, or what? …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • boom box — portable radio, ghetto blaster    We can have music at the beach if you bring your boom box …   English idioms

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