border blaster

noun

A broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounborder blaster (plural border blasters)

plural border blasters

  1. A broadcast station used to target listeners in another country, despite not being licensed to do so.

    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 […]

    2004, Jesse Walker, Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America, page 197
Cite this entry
APA

border blaster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/border%20blaster

MLA

“border blaster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/border%20blaster. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “border blaster,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/border%20blaster.

Source: border blaster on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.