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BX cable

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noun

Electricity.

  1. a cable consisting of wires contained in a flexible metal tubing, used chiefly in wiring buildings and in supplying electric power to equipment.

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The Warrior's spindly steel rod legs, girded with buggy wheels, and its limp crest of dangling BX cable give it'away.

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