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| boom box |
a portable stereo radio with built-in speakers, a carrying handle, and usu. a cassette or CD player, capable of producing loud sound. |
| eight-track tape |
a magnetic-tape cartridge with four pairs of stereo tracks of prerecorded sound, popular in the United States from the mid-sixties to the early eighties. |
| ghetto blaster |
(slang) a portable stereo player. |
| headphone |
(usu. pl.) a sound receiver, as for a radio or stereo system, that is held over one or both ears by a flexible band; earphones; headset. |
| sound1 |
the effect created by sound waves transmitted through a stereo system or the like. [1/11 definitions] |
| Walkman |
trademark for a pocket-sized stereo cassette tape player used with headphones, usu. by a single individual. [1/2 definitions] |
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