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There’s a huge boom box towering over the arena in La Concorde!
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
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
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First Known Use
1981, in the meaning defined above
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“Boom box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boom%20box. Accessed 22 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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