Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context US informal English) television 2 (context British informal English) A type of woman's upper body garment consisting of a taut band of cloth around the breasts and back.
WordNet
n. a receiver that displays television images; "the British call a tv set a telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box, telly, goggle box]
Wikipedia
Boob tube can mean:
- Boob tube, US slang for a television set
- Boob tube, British term for a tube top
- The Boob Tube, a 1975 soap opera/TV commercial parody marketed to capitalize on the success of The Groove Tube and similar comedy films of the era
Usage examples of "boob tube".
Brought down from the silver screen, liberated from the boob tube, leaping off the pages of pulpy romance novels, made tactile and personal .
But it hadn't been that easy, after all, and Tommy was angry, furious, because they shouldn't make it look so easy in the movies and on the boob tube when, in fact, the gun jumped in your hands as if it was alive.
Once he hit the boob tube, kids took Rap Brother just about as seriously as the commercials.
Well, of course, by the time the boob tube was hot and the VCR connected, the Cheerfuls had the undivided attention of everyone in the room.
Another question: where did the Condor get the electric power to run his boob tube, to say nothing of his thousand-watt amateur radio station?