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idiot box

noun

Etymology

From idiot + box, an allusion to the supposed mind-reducing nature of television programming or its lack of educational value.

  1. derived from Boxenstopp
  2. derived from pyxis
  3. derived from buxis
  4. inherited from *buhsā✻
  5. inherited from box
  6. inherited from box — “container, box, cup”
  7. compounded as idiot box — “idiot + box”

Definitions

  1. Television.

    • During the long, dreary, wet winter I amused myself by watching college and Pro basketball on the idiot box.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for idiot box. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA