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an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
the British call a tv set a telly
How To Use boob tube In A Sentence
- The kids spend too much time in front of the boob tube.
- Multimedia is also associated with flashy video clips, musical sound bytes and colorful animations; the theory seems to be that in order to compete with television, education must outdazzle the boob tube. Technomania
- And now Dr. Laura is about to make the jump from the radio to the boob tube, courtesy of a show this fall from Paramount Television.
- Rhyming, however, is the favourite sound effect of slang, as in boob tube television, frat rat member of a US college fraternity.
- The kids spend too much time in front of the boob tube.
- Uh , oh, I can kiss my boob tube goodbye.
- Under life sentence in my wardrobe are a pair of rubbery silver trousers, a black boob tube and a fluffy white jumper which sheds whenever I walk, making me look like a giant dandelion.
- Some new ads about to hit the airways bring new meaning to the term boob tube. CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2004