Idiom of the day :- Ghetto blaster

Usage, examples and definition of the Idiom :-

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.