radio shack

American  

noun

Informal.

1. a room or structure, as on a ship, for housing radio equipment.

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Etymology

Origin of radio shack

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Stinking fur seals lurk in the radio shack and among the overturned benches of the canteen.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2014

Second Operator George Ignatius Alagna made two fiery trips from the radio shack to the bridge to get instructions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actors, technicians and equipment were toted hither & yon to get such actual backgrounds as the California Institute of Technology and the radio shack used by the Bureau to relay bogus information abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqu�, rip-roodled off to the radio shack and peremptorily ordered the operator, "in the name of the White House," to send it.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were a billiard hall, radio shack, greenhouse, pigeon roost, and a place where prize-winning guinea pigs were raised.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey