Music player for a break dancer

Usage examples of boombox.

They were the clothes of a bum, and the possessions which had spilled out of the cart when it overturned suggested the same: an old pair of airtip dress shoes, a length of frayed rope, a Barbie doll, a blue jacket with BUCKEYE LANES printed on the back in gold thread, a bottle of wine, half-full, stoppered with what looked like the finger of a lady's evening glove, and a boombox radio which had to be at least ten years old.

Clay and his friends had called such systems ghetto blasters or boomboxes.

Yes, he could see the red power-lamps of the boomboxes circling the field.

Around the field, seeming to float in the dark, were the red eyes of the boomboxes, all but one playing without benefit of CDs.

A few of the heat-warped boomboxes had fallen over when Clay opened the door, and something that had very likely been balanced on top of the pile had fallen over with them, lodging half in and half out of the pile.

Their course was going to take them south and west of it, but when they left the mall parking lot, they were close enough to see the red eyes of the boomboxes through the trees.

Two boomboxes could be heard, one softly playing anonymous music, one somewhat louder tuned to a local newsfeed.

What are you gonna do, sneak down to the tribal store and shoplift boomboxes?

Before I picked up one of those dictation machines with the foot-pedals for $10 at a garage sale, I used to transcribe by repeatedly rewinding the tape on a boombox that was sitting on my desk.