ghetto blaster
nounEtymology From ghetto + blaster. First use appears c. 1980, see quotations.
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Slang A portable stereo system capable of playing music (from several sources) at a relatively high volume; a boombox.
- We got tired of him carrying his ghetto blaster down our street every day.
- “Mr. Johnson, in future I’d like you to leave your ghetto blaster at home, please.” She cast a withering look at the giant radio.1980 May, Leonore Fleischer, Fame: A Novel, page 63:
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- Amid the noise of air horns, wolf whistles, and ghetto blasters shouting out old calypso tunes.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 158:
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Broadly A car stereo used in a similar way (loudly and, often, rudely); the hooptie in which it is mounted.
- We got tired of him driving his ghetto blaster down our street every day.