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bitch box
noun
a public address loudspeaker system US, 1945- — American Speech, p. 54, February 1947: “Pacific war language”
- The Karp punched the general alarm and got on the bitch box to all the towers on the perimeter. — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 198, 1967
- — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, 1978
- I was awakened by a loud banging on the locked door coupled with the noise coming from the loudspeaker–the bitch box, we called it, from dispatch. — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 126, 1978
- — Gregory Clark, Words of the Vietnam War, p. 58, 1990
- Welch called down to the ship’s bridge, using the “bitch box,” the intercom system that connected important parts of the ship with each other. — Gerry Carroll, North S*A*R, p. 56, 1991
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