goggle-box

[gog-uh l-boks]

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noun British Slang.

a television set.

Origin of goggle-box

First recorded in 1955–60

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Gogglebox, which is an hour-long, is pivoted on the newsiest British television of the week, and edited right up to broadcast.
Watching Us, Watching Them: On ‘The People’s Couch’
Tim Teeman
March 20, 2014

British Dictionary definitions for gogglebox

gogglebox

noun

British slang a television set

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