boom box

noun

: a usually large portable stereophonic radio and tape or CD player

Examples of boom box in a Sentence

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Flores captures them sitting on stoops smoking cigarettes, playing basketball, roughhousing, playing in water gushing from hydrants, sunbathing at Orchard Beach, congregating in front of bodegas, listening to their boom boxes, playing instruments, dancing in the streets, dancing in social clubs. Geraldo Cadava, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024 The boom box was donated to the program after the Saints won a Central Coast Section championship in 2022. Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024 The items taken included football helmets, a boom box, team apparel and footballs, among other merchandise, according to Papin. Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2024 The world’s second-largest airline is basically standing outside annoyed travel agents’ windows with a boom box asking for another chance after bungling it up. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for boom box 

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of boom box was in 1981

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“Boom box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boom%20box. Accessed 7 Nov. 2024.

Kids Definition

boom box

noun
: a large portable radio and often tape deck or CD player with two attached speakers
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