ghetto blaster

American  

noun

Slang.

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

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ghetto blaster British  

noun

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

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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.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2021

Lionel Messi carried his son Thiago; Dani Alves carried a ghetto blaster on full blast and Sergio Busquets and Xavi Hernández carried the European Cup, one handle each.

From The Guardian • Jun. 7, 2015

He also works in bronze, casting everything from an old ghetto blaster to pockmarked archery targets, all weathered by the passing of the years.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2011

I bought His 'n' Hers on cassette in 1994, and began taking it, with my ghetto blaster, to my Saturday job in the village shop.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2011

I promised myself to visit him in jail and take him a ghetto blaster and oldies CDs.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez