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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ghetto blaster
noun
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▪ We all lined up as Dave Misson placed a ghetto blaster on the grass.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ghetto blaster

ghetto blaster \ghetto blaster\ n. [from their popularity with negro inner-city (ghetto) youth] A 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: boom box.

Wiktionary
ghetto blaster

alt. A portable stereo system capable of playing music (from several sources) at a relatively high volume; a boom box. n. A portable stereo system capable of playing music (from several sources) at a relatively high volume; a boom box.

WordNet
ghetto blaster

n. a portable stereo [syn: boom box]

Wikipedia
Ghetto Blaster (video game)

Ghetto Blaster is a computer game that was released for the Commodore 64 in 1985. It was developed by two former employees of the software house Taskset.

Ghetto Blaster (Red Aunts album)

Ghetto Blaster is the last full-length album by the Red Aunts. It was released on April 21, 1998 on Epitaph Records.

Ghetto Blaster (Push Button Objects album)

Ghetto Blaster is a studio album by American hip hop producer Push Button Objects. It was released on Chocolate Industries in 2003.

Usage examples of "ghetto blaster".

They depict a young man and a young woman, both attractive, svelte, and dressed something like marquee players in the Ice Capades, performing simple ballroom dance steps to the accompaniment of strangled music from a ghetto blaster set up on the free-throw line.

The party was carrying various bottles and an article we know well down the Bailey (because it so often appears in lists of stolen property) as a ghetto blaster.

Cheesecake has a ghetto blaster the size of a suitcase on his muscular shoulder.