boob tube








noun Informal.

  1. television.
  2. a television set.

noun slang

  1. a close-fitting strapless top, worn by women
  2. Australian a strapless, boneless, shapeless brassiere made of a stretch fabric
  3. mainly US and Canadian a television receiver
n.

“television set,” U.S. slang, by 1965, from boob “stupid person” + slang tube (n.) “television, television programming,” because the sets really did have vacuum tubes in them once upon a time.

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