Ghetto blaster
A type of portable cassette player which can play music extremely loudly
A : My grandmother moves music but she's getting deaf and couldn't hear her record player very well. She's solved the problem now.
B : What did she do -- buy a hearing aid ?
A : No. A ghetto blaster.
This expression came from America and became popular during the 1980s. Ghetto means a poor, urban area and blast means an explosion -- in this case of noisy music. They are popular with young men, who carry them around in city streets ( often in deprived areas ). The volume is designed to impress other people rather than to entertain.
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