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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clock-radio
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ There was a double bed with a clock-radio on a table beside it.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clock-radio

1946, from clock (n.1) + radio (n.).

Usage examples of "clock-radio".

Between the armillary sphere and the synthesis telescope, what we have here is a gigantic microminiaturized clock-radio.

There was a clock-radio, an alto saxophone, a fully-fitted toiletries kit, a model of the Eiffel Tower with a thermometer in it - and on and on.

There was a clock-radio, an alto saxophone, a fully-fitted toiletries kit, a model of the Eiffel Tower with a thermometer in it —.

But in place of his old clock-radio on the stand beside the bed there was a new digital clock-radio that included a CD player.

Reason told him that if anything serious had happened he would have been awakened--he had slept through the clock-radio alarm before, but he'd never failed to be aroused by a phone.

At 12:15 by his watch, by the clock over the rear-room worktable, and by nine digital clock-radios he'd rejected as too penny-ante for the effort, he had opened the rear door, picked up two television sets-a Philco and an RCA-and stepped outside to the sudden dead-white glare of four headlights.

At 12:15 by his watch, by the clock over the rear-room worktable, and by nine digital clock-radios he'd rejected as too penny-ante for the effort, he had opened the rear door, picked up two television sets –.