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A woman in a tube top.

Etymology

  • (television): An allusion to the idiocy of television programming and the supposed audience for such (boobs) and that the televisions of that era used cathode ray tube (CRT) vacuum tube displays. First use appears c. 1959, in the The Herald Journal.
  • (clothing): Due to the clothing being a tube-like garment that covers the breasts (boobs) of a woman. First use appears c. 1977, in the Daily Mail.

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Noun

boob tube (plural boob tubes)

  1. (informal, dated, derogatory) A television.
    Synonyms: idiot box, zombie box
    • 1970, Barry Oakley, chapter XLI, in A Salute to the Great McCarthy, Penguin Books Australia, published 1971, page 187:
      Pictured on boob-tubes innumerable, babbled on travelling transistors Australia-wide.
  2. (informal) A type of woman's upper body garment consisting of a taut band of cloth around the breasts and back.
    Synonym: (US) tube top
    • 2005, Paul Carter, chapter VII, in Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 92:
      A midget prostitute in heels and a boob tube was walking on the bar.
    • 2015, Oscar Phoenix, This Hostage to Fortune:
      At the same time, Tara puts her arms into her boob tube.

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