wog box

English

Alternative forms

• wog-box, wogbox

Etymology

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

Noun

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?

Synonyms

• ghetto blaster
• Third World briefcase
• Brixton briefcase