tape player
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tape player
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Joe cues Ol’ Blue Eyes on a tape player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024
It’s a plot contrivance that sends the characters through a heady maze of 1970s stereotypes as they pursue both a reel-to-reel tape player and privacy to listen.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
Maybe it’s because I was raised by a Fisher-Price cassette tape player and Mr. Rogers coaching me through stories and songs.
From Slate ● May 25, 2020
But he’s an outlier within an otherwise scruffy team of misfits who make sure to pack a reel-to-reel tape player on one of the several helicopters they take to the cloud-encased redoubt.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2017
I pointed to my tape player on his desk.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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