LP

¹

abbreviation

1. long playing; long play:

   1. a vinyl phonograph record played at 33 1/3 rpm and typically containing seven or more tracks, or one or more long classical pieces.

   2. a full-length music album, typically comprised of ten to twelve songs: called LP as an evolution of the traditional long-playing record, albums in other formats are not known by the underlying expanded form, and identified only by the abbreviation.

L.P.

²

Or l.p.

abbreviation

1. long primer.

2. low pressure.

LP

¹

noun

1. 1. a long-playing gramophone record: usually one 12 inches (30 cm) or 10 inches (25 cm) in diameter, designed to rotate at 33 1/ 3 revolutions per minute Compare EP

   2. ( as modifier )

      an LP sleeve

2. long play: a slow-recording facility on a VCR which allows twice the length of material to be recorded on a tape from that of standard play

LP

²

abbreviation

1. (in Britain) Lord Provost

2. Also: lp. low pressure

L/P

³

abbreviation

1. letterpress

Other Word Forms

• mini-LP noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of LP¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

Though it reached only No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart, the LP was critically hailed and has since been praised as the formal start of mainstream punk.

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Her LP is a narrative of troubled love and shattered small-town lives in which sparkly country songs sit alongside drones that conjure the hum of electrical lines snaking down a highway.

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But the film and LP stalled due to funding shortfalls and weren’t released in the U.S. until 1973.

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On that LP, he explored the aesthetic surfaces of advertising, sampling fragments of jingles and other sonic detritus and arranging them into haunting new shapes.

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But since then she’s released a speedy follow-up LP, “Man’s Best Friend,” which itself earned another six Grammy nods this month, including album, record and song of the year.

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