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VHS

American  
Trademark.
  1. a format for recording and playing VCR tape, incompatible with other formats.


VHS British  

abbreviation

  1. video home system: a video cassette recording system using 1/ 2 ″ magnetic tape

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jordan says when she was 4 she got up at the crack of dawn every day and put in a VHS tape of a ballet class that her mother, Mary Lim, had bought.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The subsequent invention of the cassette tape set the stage in the 1980s for both the VHS vs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

So much so that at around age 8, I rented a VHS tape of the Broadway production and watched it over and over.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

It has also spawned dozens of computer games and even VHS and Betamax editions over the years.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

When they came to the final door, Toby had no idea what to expect—a video store filled with VHS tapes?

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss