peanut whistle

noun

A low-powered transmitter or receiver.

Meanings

nounpeanut whistle (plural peanut whistles)

plural peanut whistles

  1. slangCB radioA low-powered transmitter or receiver.

    Tom has a supersensitive single-signal receiver with tuned antenna, but a peanut-whistle transmitter.

    1937, Radio, numbers 215-224, page 113
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