Definition of an idiot box

idiot box    

noun

• a television.

                                                                                                   
  
                                                                                                                                      
  
  Citation from "I Never Met the Dead Man", Family Guy (TV), Season 1 Episode 2 (1999) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: TV, television.

  Last edited on Oct 28 2011. Submitted by Acacia E. from sao paulo, Brazil on Sep 28 2005.

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Other terms relating to 'TV, television':
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bit	Definitions include: a joke from a comedy routine.
Beeb, the	Definitions include: The BBC: British Broadcasting Company.
TV	Definitions include: "television".
television bum	Definitions include: a person without cable television.
days	Definitions include: a long time.
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b0x0rz	Definitions include: from "box" meaning computer.
bang (one's) box	Definitions include: to have sex with a woman.
boom box	Definitions include: a portable box stereo system, typically furnished with radio, cassette player, and CD player.
box	Definitions include: an attractive female.
box lunch	Definitions include: cunnilingus.
box of rocks	Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
box, the	Definitions include: a television.
bread box	Definitions include: vagina
cancer box	Definitions include: a tanning bed.
cereal box	Definitions include: a common woman who thinks she's somehow special, who is not worth a relationship.
chatterbox	Definitions include: a person who talks a lot.
cookie box	Definitions include: vagina.
dumb as a box of rocks	Definitions include: extremely unintelligent.
dumb box	Definitions include: an unintelligent female.
fart box	Definitions include: buttocks.
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Other terms relating to 'idiot':
idiot-proof	Definitions include: to make incapable of being misused, even by unintelligent people.
ijit	Definitions include: alternate spelling and pronunciation of "idiot".
SLAI	Definitions include: acronym for "smiling like an idiot."
village idiot	Definitions include: a well-known unintelligent person in a community.

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