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goggle-box

goggle-box is the alternative form of goggle box.

Meaning of goggle box

Noun

goggle box (plural goggle boxes)

  1. (UK, slang) A television set.
    • The goggle box became my own private giggle box, from out of which came the likes of Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne, Charlie Drake and I Love Lucy.2012, Roger Foss, May the Farce Be With You, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Forms of goggle-box

pluralgoggle-boxes

Questions about goggle-box

What is goggle-box the alternative form of?
Goggle-box is the alternative form of goggle box.

Words near goggle-box in the dictionary

  1. Goggin
  2. Goggins
  3. goggle
  4. goggle box
  5. goggle boxes
  6. goggle-box
  7. goggle-boxes
  8. goggle-eye
  9. goggle-eyed
  10. goggle-eyed plover
  11. goggle-eyed plovers

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