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053 Boob tube

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Boob tube

 

(PW) television set

What is on the boob tube tonight?

 

(MW) television

 

(Urbandictionary) A slang term for television.

“Parents complain about the quality of the shows but don't prevent their children from gluing themselves to the boob tube” (David Owen)

 

(thefreedictionary) n Slang

1. (Clothing & Fashion) a close-fitting strapless top, worn by women

2. Austral a strapless, boneless, shapeless brassiere made of a stretch fabric

3. (Electronics & Computer Science / Communications & Information) Chiefly US and Canadian a television receiver

 

(dictionary) – noun Informal.

1.         television.

2.         a television set.

Origin:
1965–70; rhyming coinage, from the notion that television programming is foolish, induces foolishness, or is watched by foolish people

 

 

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