Walkman
a brand name for a kind of portable audio player, especially a cassette player and radio, used with headphones.
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How to use Walkman in a sentence
They then turned on either or both DNA promotors using chemicals, like clicking “record” on a Walkman.
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Forty-three years ago, on July 1, 1979, the Sony Walkman went on sale for the very first time.
People had been carrying around music for several years – transistor radios, the Walkman, etc.
Remember the first Walkman, introduced in 1979, with its tubby buttons and workmanlike profile.
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Many wore Walkman-like devices that provided translations of English into their native tongues.
British Dictionary definitions for Walkman
/ (ˈwɔːkmən) /
trademark a small portable media player with light headphones
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