squawk box

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squawk box

An always-on multi-speaker telecommunication system in which speakers located in multiple locations allow the people there to communicate directly by simply pressing a button. The squawk boxes in the warehouse allows the foreman to issue instructions to everyone at the same time. We use squawk boxes in our brokerage firm to pass important information about upcoming stock trades on the fly.
See also: box, squawk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

squawk box

n. a public-address system; a loudspeaker, especially if installed in a box or other housing. A raspy voice came over the squawk box announcing the arrival of what we had been waiting for.
See also: box, squawk
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sysop
  • shuttle
  • shuttle diplomacy
  • send (a) mixed message(s)
  • send (a) mixed signal(s)
  • communicate
  • communicate (something) to (someone)
  • communicate to
  • do you read me
  • (do) you read me?
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Anyone caught smoking immediately outside the hospital's entrance gets a blast from a squawk box with a recorded message reminding people not to light up.
"WE HERE AT SQUAWK BOX HAVE BEEN CAMPAIGNING for politicians to 'give back their pork' to help pay for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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The network appointed a new president last week to oversee a remake of its signature morning shows, "Squawk Box" and "Morning Call," as well as primetime, which has foundered with reruns of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and failed shows hosted by ad man Donny Deutsch and former tennis star John McEnroe.
Squawk Box: Crowd-dispersal weapon field-tested by the British Army in Ireland in 1973.
Meanwhile, Larry Moscow, a former CNBC producer who helped create "Squawk Box" and "Power Lunch," produces PBS'S new "Wall Street Week With Fortune." The program is co-hosted by Fortune's editorial director, Geoff Colvin, 49, and Karen Gibbs, also 49, a journalist who worked at CNBC as well as Fox News.
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