Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
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
n. a portable stereo [syn: boom box]
Wikipedia
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 is the last full-length album by the Red Aunts. It was released on April 21, 1998 on Epitaph Records.
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.