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Definition of Boob tube
1. Noun. An electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen. "The British call a tv set a telly"
Terms within: Kinescope, Picture Tube, Television Tube
Generic synonyms: Receiver, Receiving System
Group relationships: Television, Television System
Category relationships: Telecasting, Television, Tv, Video
Definition of Boob tube
1. Noun. (American English) television ¹
2. Noun. (British) A type of woman's top garment consisting of a taut band of cloth around the breasts and back. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boob Tube
Literary usage of Boob tube
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1990)
""boob tube" expresses an unconscious connection with regressive oral dependence (R.
Atkins, personal communication, 1976). Dependence on television is ..."
2. Mosca: A Factual Fiction by Richard Miller (1997)
"That evening, seated side by side, the boob tube laving them with evergreen rays,
Mosca and Santa Sebastiana, though exhausted, ergo open to soothing ..."
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