CB radio

noun

1. a device that transmits and receives radio signals only within a designated band of frequencies. Compare Citizens Band.
2. a system of private radio communication built around such a device.

Example Sentences

Grey liked his writing but already had a CB radio trucker thriller in the works from another author.

From Seattle Times

In the days when citizens band radio, a two-way radio system, was big, a young, unpublished Saul had an idea: a thriller involving CB radio and truckers.

From Seattle Times

Dillbeck was 15 when he stabbed a man in Indiana while trying to steal a CB radio, court records show.

From Seattle Times

“They would have … been happy to use CB radio’s relative privacy. The FBI might tap your landline phone in the early 1960s, but they could not monitor sporadic, local CB radio communications,” Blake said.

From Slate

“Seventh day and we’re blowing our horns,” one driver said over a CB radio heard during a live stream.

From Washington Post