boom car
Finnish translation: autostereoiden huudattaminen
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| 4 | autostereoiden huudattaminen |
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| 4 | auton poppikone |
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| 1 | jytäkaara |
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autostereoiden huudattaminen Explanation: Not a very sophisticated expression but that's what it is - kids driving around with their boom boxes cranked up to eleven and beyond. You don't need to hear the bass, you can literally feel it as the car goes by. |
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jytäkaara Explanation: Here http://wordspy.com/words/boomcar.asp the English term is described as: "A car equipped with an extremely powerful stereo system that is being played with the volume and bass levels turned up and the car windows rolled down." Presumably this fenomenom isn’t so common in Finland as it apparently is in some other countries. So there isn’t any established expression in Finnish, at least as far as I know. But if there isn’t any expression ready, it has to be made. It coud be a compound word, where the first part would be a word denoting loud, repeating, pounding noise: 'jyminä-, jytä-, jyske-', and the second part would be a word meaning 'car': in formal language it were '-auto', but here some slang expression suits better: like '-kaara' or '-biili'. I feel like 'jytäkaara' were my favourite. 'Jytä' also means some kind of noisy pounding music. |
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1 day 15 hrs confidence:
auton poppikone Explanation: Generally people speak about "poppikone" (or "poppikoneet" (pl)) when referring to loud music played in a car. |
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