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Walkman en · NOUN
Etymology
A trademark; from walk + man, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.
Meanings
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(alt-of) 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.
2012 September 25, Joey Faulkner, “MiniDisc, the forgotten format”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2013:
Forms
Walkman en · PROPN
Etymology
A trademark; from walk + man, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.
Meanings
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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.
1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 4:
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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.
1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Chapter 1, at page 5 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
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(derogatory) A street urchin.
Deriveds
walkman · Walkman Bean · Discman