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

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

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

Last week the Wyatt Earp was still 400 miles away when the Discovery II created the final climax by finding the two explorers, well-fed and chipper, installed in Admiral Byrd's abandoned radio shack.

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