Find the word definition

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
boom box
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a social service, how about installing our own classical music boom box?
▪ I did not want to die impaled on a boom box during midair turbulence.
▪ I take a boom box in the loo with me.
▪ There she was allowed to buy a boom box and sell it back for only $ 10 less.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boom box

boom box \boom box\ n. a large 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: ghetto blaster. [WordNet 1.5] ||

Wiktionary
boom box

n. A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.

WordNet
boom box

n. a portable stereo [syn: ghetto blaster]

Wikipedia
Boom Box (No Doubt album)

Boom Box is a limited-edition box set album by the American rock band No Doubt, released on November 25, 2003 through Interscope Records. It compiled The Singles 1992–2003, The Videos 1992–2003, Everything in Time, and Live in the Tragic Kingdom. The Singles 1992–2003 was also released on a separate CD on the same date. Everything in Time was released as a separate CD later on October 12, 2004. The Videos 1992–2003 was released as a separate DVD on May 4, 2004. At the time of Boom Box's release, Live in the Tragic Kingdom had already been released on VHS and it was re-released on DVD on June 13, 2006.

The Singles 1992–2003 and The Videos 1992–2003 are compiled from the singles released from four of the band's five studio albums, No Doubt, Tragic Kingdom, Return of Saturn and Rock Steady, with tracks from the last three heavily represented. Everything in Time is an album of B-sides, rare songs and remixes, taken mainly from the recording sessions of Return of Saturn. Live in the Tragic Kingdom is a recording of a concert filmed during the band's tour for Tragic Kingdom.

The release of Boom Box received very little coverage from music critics because it was not a studio album. The few reviews it received were positive. The album charted at number 206 on the Top Internet Albums. However, in its separate release, The Singles 1992–2003 was reviewed widely and positively, and it charted highly across North America and Europe, peaking at number 2 in the U.S. and number 5 in the UK. Everything in Time, in its separate release, charted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 182.

Usage examples of "boom box".

Standing in the clear pasture outside the barn, a stocky man in a hat with a boom box radio/tape player.

The source of the music was a portable boom box perched on the bed of the truck.

We borrowed John's boom box and listened to the news, and of course once we understood what was happening we all wanted to go home, make sure our wives and husbands and kids were okay.

There was also a barely functioning mini-TV and VCR, a small number of video-and audio-tapes and a black boom box.

Someone had fired up a boom box and some buffed-up guys were cracking beers.

There is a boom box held down with bungee cords, and a shoebox with a couple of dozen CDs in it, mostly albums by American woman singer-songwriters of the offbeat, misunderstood, highly intelligent but intensely emotional school, getting rich selling music to consumers who understand what it's like not to be understood.

She passed a half-dozen beggars, shaking her head at their pleas for coins, but she dropped a couple of quarters into a box in front of a young South American couple giving a tango demonstration to the rattling music of a boom box.

Two Rollerbladers pounded by, followed by a bunch of kids in crooked caps, carrying a big boom box.

I put the boom box near an outlet and kept walking, thinking it was best to make him follow me.

Hargus hadn't even brought his boom box to work, and Hargus brought his boom box everywhere.