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broken record en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance.
   • She repeated several little anecdotes or remarks about Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and George Antheil. Disconcertingly she kept asking me if I knew them, if I’d been in Paris then, what had happened to them and others, most of them dead. Her mind wandered, repeating itself like a broken record. 1975, George Wickes, “A Natalie Barney Garland”, in The Paris Review, number 61:
   • She was a broken record forever singing the same song, a lame, blind in one eye, fucked too often by life's injustice sufferer of the flesh. 2005, Mike Philbin, The Best of Him+chim+her:
   • to sound like a broken record
   • 1994, Deb M., Stepping Stones to Recovery from Codependency, Aaron Anderson quoting Ken Fisher, The Making of a Market Guru: Forbes Presents 25 Years of Ken Fisher In spite of reading all the materials on the Steps, talking to my sponsor, sharing at meetings, I felt like a broken record.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, record.

Forms

Relateds

change the record

Synonyms

stuck record

Translations (22)

mk расипана плоча (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · pt disco quebrado (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · fi jankuttaja (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · tl sirang plaka (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · fi rikkinäinen levy (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · ar أُسْطُوَانَة مَشْرُوخَة (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · pt disco riscado (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · tr bozuk plak gibi (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · ru зае́зженная пласти́нка (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · hu lejárt lemez (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · it disco rotto (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · ta கீறல் விழுந்த ரெக்கார்டு (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · es disco rayado (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · gd pìobaire an aon phuirt (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · de Mensch mit einem Sprung in der Platte (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · th แผ่นเสียงตกร่อง (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · fr disque rayé (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · sk obohratá platňa (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · el κόλλησε η βελόνα (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · pl zdarta płyta (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · tr kırık plak gibi (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance) · sk pokazený gramofón (Someone or something that constantly repeats itself, causing annoyance)