goggle box
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goggle-box — /gog euhl boks /, n. Brit. Slang. a television set. [1955 60] * * * goggˈle box noun (informal) A television set • • • Main Entry: ↑goggle * * * ˈgoggle box 7 [goggle box goggle boxes] … Useful english dictionary
goggle box — noun an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen the British call a tv set a telly • Syn: ↑television receiver, ↑television, ↑television set, ↑tv, ↑tv set, ↑idiot box, ↑boob tu … Useful english dictionary
goggle-box — /gog euhl boks /, n. Brit. Slang. a television set. [1955 60] * * * … Universalium
goggle box — n. (British and Australia) television set … English contemporary dictionary
goggle-box — noun Brit. informal a television set … English new terms dictionary
goggle box — noun (countable usually singular) BrE informal a television … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
goggle-box — Television set … A concise dictionary of English slang
(the) goggle-box — British & Australian, old fashioned the television. There are plenty of good shows on the goggle box at the moment … New idioms dictionary
(the) goggle-box — the goggle box UK US noun british informal a television Thesaurus: general words for television and radiohypernym well known television and radio programmes and charactershyponym … Useful english dictionary
goggle — v., adj., & n. v. 1 intr. a (often foll. by at) look with wide open eyes. b (of the eyes) be rolled about; protrude. 2 tr. turn (the eyes) sideways or from side to side. adj. (usu. attrib.) (of the eyes) protuberant or rolling. n. 1 (in pl.) a… … Useful english dictionary
