boom box

American  

noun

Informal.

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

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Etymology

Origin of boom box

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

He’s going to come to set with a boom box and blast, like, Phil Collins.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s wearing ladybug pajama bottoms and a White Sox T-shirt, a strange match for the elegant song blasting from her purple boom box.

From Literature

Swift said that podcast clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".

From BBC

She said the clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".

From BBC

A Dead Kennedys song plays on a radio boom box, as a bell rings a brief warning each time a cylinder turns.

From Los Angeles Times