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
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
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
When we hit the tunnel, all the sound got scooped up into a vacuum, and it was replaced by a song on the tape player.
From "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
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