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."