Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.

    Walkman

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  2. (Philippines, informal, uncountable)Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.

More definitions
  • (trademark) a pocket-sized stereo system with light weight earphones

Examples

9 sentences
  1. They use the walkman to listen to the radio.

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  2. Ziri grabbed the walkman and sent it flying into the wall.

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  3. Ziri turned off his walkman.

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  4. I had better take my Walkman.

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  5. I haven't seen a Walkman for ages. Are you still using yours?

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
personal cassette player:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
personal cassette player:

Origin

(cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.

(cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.

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Forms

plural: walkmans / walkmen

Word family

1 related words
Relateddiscman

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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