Meaning of walkman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line.
2. Alternative letter-case form of walkman.
   alt-of
3. A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
   countable, uncountable
4. A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players.
5. Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
   Philippines, informal, uncountable
6. A street urchin.
   derogatory

Equivalents

Examples

“Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.”

“He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable finding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable) and pulls out today’s newspaper.”

“Outside the toilets school parties from France and Germany stood in stiff groups photographing themselves. They talked loudly without removing their Walkmans. Their headsets sizzled and tished.”

“But it took a decade to make any impression on the mainstream – people stuck with cassettes for recording, and Walkmen and Discmen for portability – and almost as soon as it did, it was killed by the MP3 player.”

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