boom box

1. 1.

   a portable stereo

   Synonymsghetto blaster

   Broaderstereo

   colloquialism

Questions about boom box

What does boom box mean?

boom box means "a portable stereo".

What is another word for boom box?

Close synonyms include ghetto blaster. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boom box a common word?

boom box is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.