A type of woman's upper body garment consisting of a tautband of cloth around the breasts and back.
Origin
An allusion to the idiocy of television programming and the supposed audience for such (boobs) and that televisions of the era used cathode ray tube (CRT) vacuum tube displays
From it being a tube-like garment that covers the breasts (boobs) of a woman
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