wog box

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Etymology

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From the stereotypical association of such stereos with black and South Asian people.

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wog box (plural wog boxes)

  1. (British, slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A large portable stereo system; a boom box.
    • 1997, Biko Agozino, Black Women and the Criminal Justice System, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:
      ‘I was spoken to by an officer ... in a totally racist way. When locking me in my cell she said to me “Don't turn up that ‘wog box’ too loud.” []
    • 2004 November 19, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, “Jeremy Makes It”, in Peep Show, season 2, episode 2 (television production), spoken by Mark Corrigan (David Mitchell), Channel 4:
      Yeah, I don't normally go there. They've always got that wog box on.
    • 2009, Michael Arditti, The Enemy of the Good, London: Arcadia Books, →ISBN, page 289:
      Don't you think that wog-box of yours causes enough aggravation already?

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