VHS

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noun

A type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.

Very commonScrabble 9

Meanings

VHS1

nounVHS (countable and uncountable, plural VHSes)

plural VHSes

  1. countableuncountableA type of videotape originally developed by the Japanese company JVC.

    There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding, and despite post-2006 advancements in technology.

    2021 February 20, Hannah Selinger, “Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2022
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    The curt take on VHS is that it is a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie. Regardless, to date, there are quantities of VHS titles not available on DVD, and that may never be.

    2009, Jacques Boyreau, Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, page 5

VHs2

noun
  1. pluralplural of VH

Origin

Translations

French VHS
  • VHSvideotape developed by JVC
German VHS
  • VHSvideotape developed by JVC
Italian VHS
  • VHSvideotape developed by JVC
Spanish VHS, videocasete
  • VHSvideotape developed by JVC
  • videocasetevideotape developed by JVC
  • videocintavideotape developed by JVC
  • videocassette (videokaset)videotape developed by JVC
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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