tape player
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tape player
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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This was via, ahem, an eight-track tape player.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
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
When she returned, Ivers had set a tape player on her pillow with the song cued up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
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
She has not forgotten about the tape and the tape player and the old earbuds that Luke Messenger gave her on her birthday at Big Chuck’s, way back in Washington.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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