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Motorola

//moʊtɚˈɹoʊlə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hand-held radio manufactured by the Motorola company.

    "[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]"

Etymology

From motor + -ola, because at the time the company adopted that name it produced radios for installation in motorcars.

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