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boom box

boom box is the alternative spelling of boombox.

Meaning of boombox

Noun

boombox (plural boomboxes)

  1. A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.
    • Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271

Forms of boom box

pluralboom boxes

Questions about boom box

What is boom box the alternative spelling of?
Boom box is the alternative spelling of boombox.

Words near boom box in the dictionary

  1. boom
  2. boom and bust
  3. boom bap
  4. boom barrier
  5. boom barriers
  6. boom box
  7. boom boxes
  8. boom car
  9. boom carpet
  10. boom carpets
  11. boom cars

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