wog box
nounEtymology From the stereotypical association of such stereos with black and South Asian people.
- ‘I was spoken to by an officer ... in a totally racist way. When locking me in my cell she said to me “Don't turn up that ‘wog box’ too loud.” […]1997, Biko Agozino, Black Women and the Criminal Justice System, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:
- Yeah, I don't normally go there. They've always got that wog box on.2004 November 19, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “Jeremy Makes It”, in Peep Show, season 2, episode 2 (television production), spoken by Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Channel 4:
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- Don't you think that wog-box of yours causes enough aggravation already?2009, Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good, London: Arcadia Books, →ISBN, page 289:
- Synonyms
- ghetto blaster, Third World briefcase, Brixton briefcase