big switch

Definitions

1. 1

   The switch controlling one's radio equipment.

   • This is the cliché-er who will see you further down the log because he has to pull the big switch and modulate the mattress.
   • I noted in a recent publication that the "sale of spectrum," the stuff we use every time we throw the big switch, was the subject of renewed efforts by President Reagan to charge "users" for access to the radio spectrum […]

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