Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. An electronic device for playing phonograph records.
WordNet
n. machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically [syn: phonograph]
Usage examples of "record player".
Even if he isn't trying to cheat, it just makes sense for him to make his record player play your records or his records play on your record player.
Many were the nights when my abode was the scene of lively discussion nearly overwhelmed by the music from the record player, the fumes of wine and cigarettes legal and illicit, the sexual tension broadcast by bearded boys in turtlenecks and splendid young women wearing what at times appeared to be merely paint.
On the record player was another American product, an LP of Louis Armstrong on the trumpet, blowing some superb New Orleans jazz.
Lifting the top of the combination radio and record player, she put on a record, got into the bed and pulled the covers up to her eyes.
In one of the corners stood two neat foot-high piles of paperback books, in another the square fake-alligator cover of a cheap record player.
The people in charge of the record player were apparently still looking for the record - all I could hear was the highpitched buzzing of the loudspeaker - but then came the blasting sound of a twist.
A record player and speakers had been set up at the front of the church, and at long last Reverend Blessett—.
Keyes tried to imagine the scene later, aboard the Huey, Wiley and his portable record player.
The lights in the living room would go out one by one, Schoenberg's quartets (complete) would go on the record player/changer, and repeat, and repeat.
And when they found that box of 45s stolen from the South, her mother used to put Java on an old hand-cranked record player and they'd dance around their small shack, causing the tin roof to rattle and scaring the chickens and goat.