Both Uses of
transistor radio
in
Cujo
- Tad started round the house toward the swing-and-gym set Vic had built last summer, while lubricating himself wed with gin and tonics, working from a set of plans, doing it after supper on week nights and on weekends with the voices of the Boston Red Sox announcers blaring from the transistor radio beside him.†
*transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
- When they come to take you down, When they bring that wagon 'round, When they come to call on you And drag your poor body down ...Jerry Garcia's voice, easy but somehow weary, came floating down the hall, magnified and distorted by someone's transistor radio until it sounded as if the vocal were floating down a long steel tube.†
Definition:
a small portable radio that was popular in the past and made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes