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1British historical A combined radio and record player built into a cabinet with a speaker.
‘He once went out to buy a stylus for an old record player and came back with a radiogram.’
‘If you bought a sound system (as I believe radiograms are now known) from Clydesdale, you qualified for a weekend at a Forte hotel.’
‘And wind-up gramophones were all the general population could afford - the first generation of electric radiograms were as expensive as cars.’
‘When my parents thought I was doing homework, I would lie underneath our radiogram and listen to his music.’
‘Everyone was in awe - how could such a small device be so powerful as to do everything the much larger radiogram could?’
‘It must have been a pivotal year because I've had cause to reflect on my Melbourne Cup history this week and the win by Polo Prince in 1964 is the first I recall listening to on the radiogram.’
‘The old radiogram my parents had is now just a bad memory.’
‘It was between the settee and the coffee table, over towards the radiogram, away from the bookcase, right under the light fitting.’
‘We could gather around the radiogram, and later the television, or put a record on the gramophone and no one had to spend years practising.’
‘I bought every 12-inch mix of the single that was available, and played them endlessly on the useless radiogram that comprised my state of the art hi-fi at the time.’
‘Back in the early fifties people across the land followed the Redex trial intently, listening in for updates in the daily news broadcasts from their valve radiograms.’
‘I once got a stack of about ten albums, discovered inside an old radiogram my parents bought at an auction for the princely sum of £4.50.’
‘One year, she bought the radiogram.’
‘In the hands of an inebriated amateur at the Hogmanay party, it would have you rushing to put a Billy Eckstine or Fats Domino record on the radiogram.’
‘For an outlay of 41 guineas, you could have a new radiogram, it promised, and 11 guineas bought the latest thing in radios - a transistor.’
‘On the Saturday they went out shopping and I was aquiver with excitement, soon the disc would be in my hands and blaring out of the radiogram!’
‘And like hearing a familiar song on the radiogram, John found himself, but again… alone.’
‘Althoff grew up next to an old Bakelite Kreisler radiogram.’
‘My father's friend had a radiogram, a huge beast that incorporated a radio and a record player for 78s.’
‘On radiogram, the ipsilateral hemithorax is lucent, the diaphragm is depressed, and the trachea and mediastinum are shifted contralaterally.’
3historical A telegram sent by radio.
‘Subsequent reports confirmed the news, and at 0700 MacArthur received a radiogram from Washington authorizing him to implement war plans against Japan.’
‘The draft budget was approved without challenge reportedly after the council received a radiogram from the Ministry of Home Affairs urging it to approve the draft.’