eight-track tape

American  

[eyt-trak] / ˈeɪtˌtræk /

Or 8-track tape

noun

1. a magnetic-tape cartridge, especially one carrying four pairs of stereo tracks of prerecorded sound or music.

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Example Sentences

This was via, ahem, an eight-track tape player.

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

All the data collected by the spacecraft instruments would be stored on eight-track tape recorders and then sent back to Earth by a 23-watt transmitter—about the power level of a refrigerator light bulb.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022

Fred’s company sold the White House the eight-track tape player that was installed on Air Force One.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

They switched to eight-track tape for the other four songs, including “Free Bird,” which gave more flexibility.

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2020

Farther away from the meat vendors, fashionable youths with thin Elvis Presley sideburns in bell-bottom pants and corduroy jackets play loud Cambodian pop music from their eight-track tape players.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung