1. Opiate for the masses since the 1950's. Therby rendering them unfit both physically and mentally for any form of revolution. Rolling over on the sofa does not count as a revolution.
1. A device so essential to Americans that it is mentioned alongside food, water and shelter during cataclysmic tornadoes, flash floods and earthquakes. Often abbreviated as "TV" or "teevee."
2. The drug of choice for Mike Teevee, a character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
"We had no water, no power, no TV," Lurleen Tootin of Milledgeville said. "I told my Darrell we damn near could have died."