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  • noun Alternative spelling of goggle box.

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goggle +‎ box

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Examples

  • Developers, well those that meet Apple's firm and unfriendly terms and conditions, have helped this by creating 5,000 new applications for the handheld gogglebox, meaning that it's big numbers all round at Apple - particularly we imagine in the App Store and Ibook store accounting departments.

    The Inquirer 2010

  • Had Vine ever been let loose on the artistic gymnastics it's likely that something on a par with Finnegans Wake would have splurted from the gogglebox.

    Wimbledon deafened by cacophony of body language | Harry Pearson 2011

  • ✒Spurious royal wedding-related nonsense of the week goes to Sir Martin Sorrell's market research firm, TNS Omnibus, which confidently predicts that a "massive 26.2 million people" will watch Will and Kate's nuptials on the gogglebox, making it the most watched TV event of the past 10 years.

    Media Monkey's Diary 2011

  • Had Vine ever been let loose on the artistic gymnastics it's likely that something on a par with Finnegans Wake would have splurted from the gogglebox.

    Wimbledon deafened by cacophony of body language | Harry Pearson 2011

  • This one's from a series on the wonderful gogglebox: WOTONTELLYIS, A POLISH VIEW.

    DEMONISING ROMAN CATHOLICISM.. 2009

  • Along with Lost, this happens to be one of the best shows on the gogglebox in my humble opinion.

    Battlestar Galactica RICHARD 2008

  • So yes to pyjamas, slippers and slumping on the sofa in front of the gogglebox and not being thought the worse of for that.

    What blokes say Ms Robinson 2008

  • There hasn't been much of anything worth watching on the gogglebox lately, but wifey and I took in a viewing of History of the World Part I tonight and it was worth a few chuckles, particularly the giant joint in the Rome portion.

    Pizza The Hutt RICHARD 2008

  • And then we have the original fan of popular beat combos like those Artic Monkfish and the Beatles, popular culture and everything on the tube, gogglebox, wireless with pictures thingy oh what do they call it nowadays Elspeth?

    Leaders' Theme Tunes At Conference 06 Kerron Cross 2006

  • And then we have the original fan of popular beat combos like those Artic Monkfish and the Beatles, popular culture and everything on the tube, gogglebox, wireless with pictures thingy oh what do they call it nowadays Elspeth?

    Archive 2006-09-01 Kerron Cross 2006

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