ghetto blaster

noun

Slang.

1. a large, powerful portable radio, especially as carried and played by a pedestrian or used outdoors in an urban area.

ghetto blaster

noun

1. informal,  a large portable cassette recorder or CD player with built-in speakers

Example Sentences

Later he demonstrates how he'd record primitive songs on his old ghetto blaster, before wheeling out a proper drum kit and thrashing out Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.

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On my nephew’s ghetto blaster, I put on some Bach.

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Karen Finley, the American performance artist, was really good about us using her sample: “Drop that ghetto blaster!”

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I have a very strong image of me sitting in my childhood bedroom, with the lights all dimmed, listening to this on my ghetto blaster.

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It could be a scene out of Buenos Aires as the tango lyrics boom out of a ghetto blaster powered by a generator attached to a car.

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