goggle box

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goggle box

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From goggle (“to stare at”) + box.

noun goggle boxes · gogglebox · goggle-box · Gogglebox

  1. UK, slang A television set. The goggle box became my own private giggle box, from out of which came the likes of Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne, Charlie Drake and I Love Lucy.

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@misc{goggle_box_2026,
  title = {goggle box},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/goggle%20box},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}