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X station

X station noun: a Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.

Noun

X station (plural X stations)

  1. (Canada, US) A Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.
    • Not long after the feds started regulating radio, Mexico's megawatt border blasters—high-powered stations planted just south of Texas and California—started beckoning. The FCC couldn't control them […] That same year, the Mexican government revised its radio licensing law, drastically reducing the...2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197
    • X-station broadcasts could be heard occasionally in every region of the United States and in Canada, though it is difficult to know who listened to them.2015, Bill C. Malone, David Stricklin, Southern Music/American Music, page 73

Forms of X station

pluralX stations

Origin of X station

From the initial letter X of Mexican radio stations' call signs.

Questions about X station

What does X station mean?
X station means a Mexican broadcast station whose signal overpowers those of stations in the United States.
What part of speech is X station?
X station is a noun.
What is the plural of X station?
The plural of X station is X stations.

Words near X station in the dictionary

  1. X O
  2. X organ
  3. X Os
  4. x out
  5. X Prize
  6. X station
  7. X stations
  8. X truss
  9. X trusses
  10. x unit
  11. x units

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