Boombox

//ˈbum.bɑks// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.

    "Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice."

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ghetto blasterjambox

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"Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice."

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