Etymology

playback

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Today it means: The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images. Full definition →

French playback
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromplayback
  2. English todayplayback

From play + back. Sense 2 is from French playback, a pseudo-anglicism of this term.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.