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

For the first time, two girls shipped out not in the radio shack but as deck hands or, so to speak, as ordinary seawomen.

From Time Magazine Archive

George White Rogers first got into the headlines in 1934 when he clung to his key in the radio shack of the burning liner Morro Castle, risked the death that overtook 124 others.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent.

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