boom box
Americannoun
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boom boxes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of boom box
First recorded in 1980–85
Example Sentences
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The childhood friends saw the movie weekend after weekend upon its original release, and later spent afternoons attempting the stunts in a 7-Eleven parking lot while blasting its soundtrack on a boom box.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
Swift said that podcast clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025
A Dead Kennedys song plays on a radio boom box, as a bell rings a brief warning each time a cylinder turns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
Everybody ran over toward the boom box, demanding a rewind.
From Salon ● May 14, 2023
Someone put a coin in the boom box.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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