ghetto blaster

ghetto blaster
ghetto blaster ghetto blaster n. [from their popularity with negro inner-city (ghetto) youth] A portable casette or compact disk player, usually having an integrated radio receiver. It typically has two (stereophonic) speakers, and can be adjusted to play at a high sound intensity, from which the name comes.

Syn: boom box. [WordNet 1.5]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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