Definitely not just a USA thing, "transistor" also meant "transistor radio" in Russian back in the day. (E.g. this song from 1982: https://learnsongs.ru/song/d

Definitely not just a USA thing, "transistor" also meant "transistor radio" in Russian back in the day. (E.g. this song from 1982: https://learnsongs.ru/song/dinamik-na-plyazhe-pleshchet-volna-68477 https://learnsongs.ru/song/dinamik-na-plyazhe-pleshchet-voln...)