Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal The loudspeaker of an intercom or public-address system.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the loudspeaker on an intercom or public address system
Examples
“Back on the Banana River, Janet Armstrong and her boys stayed on the yacht listening to transmissions from the spacecraft on a NASA squawk box until the crowds dispersed.”
“The racket issuing from the squawk box just above Hansen's bunk was appalling, a high-pitched, shrieking, atonic whistle, two-toned and altering pitch every half-second, it drilled stiletto-like against my cringing eardrums.”
Tweets
Looking for tweets for squawk box.
chained_bear Slang for a public address (P.A.) system. Aug 26, 2008