Meanings
nounboombox (plural boomboxes)
plural boomboxes · alternative boom box
- A powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.
Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271Synonyms: jambox, ghetto blaster
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA powerful portable audio system for listening collectively to recorded or broadcast sound.
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Translations
Basque irrati-kasete
- irrati-kaseteportable audio system
Chinese Mandarin 音響 /音响, 音箱
- 音響 /音响 (yīnxiǎng)portable audio system
- 音箱 (yīnxiāng)portable audio system
- 揚聲器 /扬声器 (yángshēngqì)portable audio system
Czech party reproduktor, radiomagnetofon
- party reproduktorportable audio system
- radiomagnetofonportable audio system
Dutch gettoblaster
- gettoblasterportable audio system
Finnish mankka, boombox-soitin
- mankkaportable audio system
- boombox-soitinportable audio system
French radiocassette, ghettoblaster
- radiocassetteportable audio system
- ghettoblasterportable audio system
- boomboxportable audio system
German Ghettoblaster
- Ghettoblasterportable audio system
Hungarian hordozható magnó/hifi (sztereó)
- hordozható magnó/hifi (sztereó) (óriás)portable audio system
Indonesian boombox
- boomboxportable audio system
Japanese ラジカセ, ラジオカセットレコーダー
- ラジカセportable audio system
- ラジオカセットレコーダー (rajiokasettorekōdā)portable audio system
- ブーム・ボックス (būmu bokkusu)portable audio system
Polish boombox, radiomagnetofon
- boomboxportable audio system
- radiomagnetofonportable audio system
Russian бумбо́кс
- бумбо́кс (bumbóks)portable audio system
Spanish radiocasetera, boombox (búmboks)
- radiocaseteraportable audio system
- boombox (búmboks)portable audio system
- radiograbadorportable audio system
- radiorreceptor portátilportable audio system
- radiocaseteportable audio system
- radiograbadoraportable audio system
- loroportable audio system
Swedish bergsprängare
- bergsprängareportable audio system
Thai บูมบอกซ์
- บูมบอกซ์ (boom-bòk)portable audio system
Ukrainian бумбо́кс
- бумбо́кс (bumbóks)portable audio system
Cite this entry
APA
boombox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boombox
MLA
“boombox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boombox. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boombox,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boombox.
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