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From Fripp + -tronics, named after its inventor Robert Fripp (1946–); coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frippertronics
Today it means: A system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay. Full definition →