record player

noun

: a device used for playing musical records

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This adorable Fisher-Price record player plays 20 different songs from five little discs that remind me of Taylor Swift’s color variants. Clint Davis, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024 Inspired by an article on Isaac Newton that appeared in Popular Mechanics, a teenage Eversley went to his father’s basement lab, placed a pie pan loaded with Jell-O on a turntable, and let the record player spin. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 18 Mar. 2025 The singer shared a video of him placing the vinyl version of the album on a record player, and showing it to the camera on Wednesday. Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Mar. 2025 The client is a music enthusiast, so while the audio systems live inside the console, their wires invisibly extend to a record player on top. John Ortved, Architectural Digest, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for record player

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“Record player.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/record%20player. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.

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record player

noun
rec·​ord player
ˈrek-ərd-
: an electronic instrument for playing phonograph records
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