cassette deck

American  

noun

1. a tape deck for playing and recording cassette tapes.

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Example Sentences

We drove across the Queensboro Bridge and continued past car dealerships and transmission shops, the places where your blue Buick Regal, with its peeling paint and cassette deck, goes to die.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

Sebastian — Seb, if you’re a hepcat — drives a creaky but reliable brown Buick Riviera convertible with a cassette deck, wears spectator shoes and rehearses a mournful piano figure ad nauseam.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2017

But while Robert Quine was recording the Matrix shows to a portable cassette deck, Peter Abram, co-owner of the club, was simultaneously capturing four-track recordings of the band’s performances.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2015

Sounding as though it was recorded off laptop speakers and into a cassette deck, it's a rare example of lo-fi rap.

From Slate • Sep. 15, 2011

"It was kind of cool how each tape sounded different depending on what cassette deck you used."

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2010