pizza dish

English
A pizza dish

Etymology

From its similarity in shape and size to a pizza.

Noun

pizza dish (plural pizza dishes)

  1. (informal, telecommunications) A Ku-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
    Coordinate term: big ugly dish
    • 2006 January 30, Maxodyne, “Re: 4DTV Future 2006”, in alt.video.satellite.4dtv‎ (Usenet):
      True, many former C-banders have traded in their BUDs for pizza dishes. […] Most of those programmers are smart: they offer C-band *and* pizza dish programming. So, for every C-band customer lost to pizza, they gain a pizza client. Conversely, it is these pizza dish clients who are enabling programmers to continue to provide C-band programming.
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