boom box

American  

noun

Informal.

• boom boxes
  plural

1. a large, powerful portable radio and often cassette or CD player.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• boom boxes
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of boom box

First recorded in 1980–85

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

boom box

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

Passersby walked on as a boom box tied to the car’s roof repeatedly blared the words “The Ixil people do remember” and played the judge’s genocide verdict.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

I was tying my Nikes extra tight on the basketball court, when Duncan planted has boom box at the end of the bench.

From Salon ● May 14, 2023

The defendant and two of his friends boarded the same train and one of them played music from a boom box speaker.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2023

I pressed Stop on the boom box, because the interview was over.

From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer

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