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."