American slang for a boombox — a large, portable radio and cassette or CD player that could be carried on the shoulder, popular from the late 1970s through the 1990s. The 'jam' element refers to music ('jams'), and the 'box' to the device itself. Part of the vocabulary of hip-hop and street culture in urban America. Today the word sometimes extends to portable Bluetooth speakers.
He rolled into the park with a jambox on his shoulder blasting old-school R&B.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) boom box.
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