walkman

plural walkmans · plural uncommon walkmen · alternative Walkman

1. countableuncountableA portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.

   Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.

   2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender)

2. PhilippinesinformaluncountablePigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.

1. A Sony portable personal compact cassette player product line.

   He places the Walkman in the case alongside a Panasonic wallet-size cordless portable finding Easa-phone (he used to own the NEC 9000 Porta portable) and pulls out today’s newspaper.

   1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 4

2. A Sony brand for personal portable audio media players.

   Outside the toilets school parties from France and Germany stood in stiff groups photographing themselves. They talked loudly without removing their Walkmans. Their headsets sizzled and tished.

   1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Chapter 1, at page 5 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)

3. derogatoryA street urchin.

plural Walkmans · plural uncommon Walkmen

1. Alternative letter-case form of walkman.

   But it took a decade to make any impression on the mainstream – people stuck with cassettes for recording, and Walkmen and Discmen for portability – and almost as soon as it did, it was killed by the MP3 player.

   2012 September 25, Joey Faulkner, “MiniDisc, the forgotten format”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2013