Crossword clues for muzak
muzak
- Strains to hear on the phone?
- Something piped through malls
- Provider of store melodies
- Piped-in tracks
- Office tracks?
- Notes for public places?
- Mall background sounds
- Mall background material
- It's piped into elevators
- It's often heard in elevators
- It might be piped into a mall
- Instrumental blather
- Elevator annoyance, to some
- Carols at the mall, usually
- Background sound in an elevator or waiting room, perhaps
- Background sound in a store
- Sounds to shop by
- It may be played in elevators
- Waiting room sound, maybe
- You might hear it going up and down
- Elevator background
- Piped notes
- Background music played in public places
- Elevator rider's earful
- Mall melodies
- It's instrumental
- Elevator tunes
- You may hear it when riding an elevator
- What might make you get down while you go down?
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, proprietary name for piped music, supposedly a blend of music and Kodak, said to have been coined c.1922 by Gen. George Squier, who developed the system of background music for workplaces.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Muzak English)
Wikipedia
Muzak is a brand of background music delivered to retail stores and other establishments. The former company that marketed the brand was Muzak Holdings, which itself was often simply referred to as Muzak. Mood Media purchased Muzak Holdings for US$345 million in 2011, including $305 million in cash.
Muzak may refer to
- Muzak (brand), the brand name of an American background music distribution service for retail stores and other establishments
- a generic term for elevator music
Usage examples of "muzak".
The cards were done, the presents bought, and if she heard any more tinkling seasonal muzak she would go stark staring mad, or was it madder?
I used the Muzak moment as an opportunity to turn up the volume on the cell phone so I could hear over the road noise.
FM station began broadcasting -- with daytime Muzak balanced off against a late-night freak-rock gig as heavy as anything in S.
Bulldog sentimentality, plus cranially soft as a fucking grape, O'Shay took Fackelmann's call wrong, thought Fackelmann said Eighties Bill wanted 125K with (-2) points on Yale instead of (-2) on Brown, put Fackelmann on Hold and made him listen to Irish Muzak while she put in a call to a Yale Athletic Dept.
Automatically his hand switched on the Muzak control, and the room filled with the waltzing ghosts of a thousand animated cartoons.
We'd only do it in the middle of the night when no one was there, just one checkout line open and the nightshift boys unpacking canned goods in back, with Rush coming from the speakers that during the day carried Muzak.
He was hearing all of this with only a very limited part of his mind - it flowed over him, soothing, like white noise, like Muzak floating down from the ceiling in a discount department store.
Muzak floating down from the ceiling in a discount department store.
Through the rest of the afternoon, through her trip to the market in downtown Kinneret-Among-The-Pines to buy ricotta and listen to the Muzak (today she came through the bead-curtained entrance around bar 4 of the Fort Wayne Settecento Ensemble's variorum recording of the Vivaldi Kazoo Concerto, Boyd Beaver, soloist).
I think that if Muzak can be stamped out, alot of our other ailments will disappear too, since they're probably stress symptoms, caused by noise pollution.
Here on December 21, the Muzak play list included no Christmas tunes.
The piped-in Muzak on this lowest level of the Fedic Dogan sounded like Beatles tunes as rendered by The Comatose String Quartet.