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walkman

noun

Etymology

A trademark; from walk + man, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. compounded as walkman — “walk + man”

Definitions

  1. A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.

    • 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.

  2. Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.

  3. A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line.

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players.

      • 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.

    2. A street urchin.

    3. Alternative letter-case form of walkman.

      • 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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Derived

Discman, walkman

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for walkman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA