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."