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boom box
noun
a large, portable radio and tape player US, 1981- — Ellen C. Bellone (Editor), Dictionary of Slang, p. 3, 1989
- They measured their warrior cakewalk to a boombox beat as deadly and mechanical as automatic fire. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 18, 1990
- I could hear sirens and boom boxes and Valley kids howling at the moon as if they owned the night. — Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon, p. 138, 1992
- And there were a lot of young people on the streets, leaning into cars, chatting, listening to boom boxes. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 59, 1993
- The normal noises of the Cabrinin-Taylor projects continued to accompany their weekly sexual get together: doors slamming, boom boxes blaring raps, screams, yells, car horns blasting[.] — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, p. 9, 1993
- She’s brought her boom box on the bus[.] — Karline Smith, Letters to Andy Cole, p. 138, 1998
- My boom box, which I strapped into the passenger seat with the safety belt, could hardly project over the constant sound of traffic. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 191, 1999
- No children playing on the sidewalk. No metal blaring out of a second-story boombox. A bastion of repectability and decorum. — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 113, 2001
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