| 单词 | ghetto blaster |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghetto blaster ghetto blaster n. slang (originally U.S.) a large portable radio and cassette player (later sometimes also incorporating a CD player) with powerful speakers; cf. boom box n. at Compounds.The term seems to have arisen as a comment on the practice of carrying and playing such devices outdoors in socially and economically disadvantaged inner-city areas having predominantly African-American populations (cf. sense A. 3b).Earliest as a modifier. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] talking machine1844 recorder1867 phonograph1877 dictating machine1878 melograph1879 melodiographa1884 graphophone1886 photographophone1901 auxetophone1904 Dictaphone1906 telediphone1931 transcriber1931 wire recorder1934 sound truck1936 high fidelity1938 Soundscriber1946 player1948 rig1950 transcriptor1957 unit1966 sequencer1975 boom box1981 ghetto blaster1983 beat-box1985 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > electronic > other electronic equipment amplifier1914 speaker1926 cardioid1939 amp1945 boom box1981 ghetto blaster1983 trigger1986 1980 Des Moines (Iowa) Sunday Reg. 26 Oct. 4 c/6 He..devotes a paragraph to each thing in the '70s that he thinks was significant: disco, Johnny Rotten,..Richard Nixon, ghetto-blaster radios and the New Left. 1980 Pittsburgh Press 7 Dec. g1/2 Mugger's Special became the industry name, reflecting the box's appeal to thieves. Ghetto Blaster and Boom Box have also been suggested. 1984 J. McInerney Bright Lights, Big City 150 Out in the bus lane, a kid in a Blessed Mother High School sweatshirt turns down the volume on his ghetto-blaster. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ix. 232 Some of the breakdancers had no decks, just a ghetto blaster set up on the side of the grass or by a bench. 2021 Advertiser (Adelaide, Austral.) (Nexis) 5 Aug. 21 The pandemic has (hopefully) put an end to the fitness group in the local park that brought along a ghetto blaster so we could all enjoy some Daft Punk before dawn. < as lemmas |
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