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807 en · NOUN
Etymology
In reference to the shape of the 807 vacuum tube.
Meanings
(qualifier:Ham radio slang) A bottle of beer.
Also, he was low on beer money and, anyway, we'd scoff and wouldn't believe him. Well, this was a pretty obvious come-on, but I reckoned that a good story was worth the price of a couple of 807s. 1978, 73 Amateur Radio, page 103: