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idiot box noun- the television US, 1955
- I get tired of the idiot box. — Antony James, America’s Homosexual Underground, p. 137, 1965
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 142, 1968
- If you were to take your eyeballs and ears out of that idiot box for a hot minute and pay attention to... — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 152, 1972
- “Chill out. Watch the idiot box till I’m done.” — Eric Jerome Dickey, Cheaters, p. 162, 1999
- “Don doesn’t care much for TV.” “Know what I call it, I call it the Idiot Box,” Tony smiled. — Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People, p. 55, 2002
- an automatic car transmission US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 81, 1993
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