boom box

boom box
n. a portable stereo radio. (See also box, thunderbox.)
Turn down that damn boom box, or I’ll kick it in.
Hey, man! You even gonna take your boom box to church, or what?

Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions. 2015.

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