SQUAWK BOX

a loudspeaker in an intercom (a telephone-like apparatus with which members of an office staff, crew of an airplane, etc., can talk to each other). The squawk comes from the poor quality of sound usually associated with the loudspeakers in such a system (squawking or screeching) as well as, in its military origins, the continuous streams of orders (squawking or bitching). —Class VIII №3, Approved November 1990

(slang) a speaker of a radio or telephone intercommunication system, as between rooms of a building. I used to do this with a squawk box, you know, patrol.

a loudspeaker in an intercom (a telephone-like apparatus with which members of an office staff, crew of an airplane, etc., can talk to each other). The squawk comes from the poor quality of sound usually associated with the loudspeakers in such a system (squawking or screeching) as well as, in its military origins, the continuous streams of orders (squawking or bitching).a loudspeaker in an intercom (a telephone-like apparatus with which members of an office staff, crew of an airplane, etc., can talk to each other). (slang) a speaker of a radio or telephone intercommunication system, as between rooms of a building.