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"


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

bony semicircular canals
bonyad
bonyads
bonyness
bonza
bonze
bonzer
bonzes
boo
boo-boo
boo-ya
boo hoo
boob
boob job
boob jobs
boob tube (current term)
boob tubes
boobage
boobages
boobed
boobfest
boobialla
boobiallas
boobie
boobie-trap
boobies
boobing
boobird
boobirds
boobish

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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