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

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

From The Guardian

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

From The Guardian

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.

From The Guardian

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

From Literature