noun Informal.
- television.
- a television set.
noun slang
- a close-fitting strapless top, worn by women
- Australian a strapless, boneless, shapeless brassiere made of a stretch fabric
- mainly US and Canadian a television receiver
“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.