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ghetto blaster; ghetto box
noun
a large, portable radio and tape player; a portable music system US, 1981
Described as “offensive because it is culture specific and stereotypical” by the Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989.- That sucker’s the fifth thief I seen this morning with brand new ghetto blasters glued to his fuckin ears. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Delta Star, p. 22, 1983
- — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, Spring 1983
- Out in the bus lane, a kid in a Blessed Mother High School sweatshirt turns down the volume on his ghetto-blaster. — Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, p. s, 1984
- They have no ghetto blasters, no rap or funk tracks to dance to, which makes them an a cappella dance troupe. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 55, 1986
- [W]atching some street kids with shaved heads huddling around a ghetto blaster as if it were a fire. — Francesca Lia Block, Witch Baby, p. 143, 1991
- There were fewer gunfights, usually, but more music from the hundreds of ghetto blasters, each of them seemingly tuned to a different station. — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 14, 1993
- Now he went to talk to a man who prepared cafe Cuabno and smoked Cohiba panatelas listening to Radio Mambi on his ghetto box[.] — Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, p. 108, 1996
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