Meanings
nounFrippertronics (uncountable)
- uncountableA system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.
It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.
2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141
Origin
From Fripp + -tronics, named after its inventor Robert Fripp (1946–); coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s.
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Frippertronics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frippertronics
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