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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
record player
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But we didn't have a record player, so every night we'd get it out and look at it.
▪ Hatton said something about buying him a record player for a wedding present.
▪ I got an old record player from the second-hand store for five dollars.
▪ Inside she found a record player and some old 78s.
▪ She sold her record player to Eric from the top floor.
▪ There was a thumping noise coming from above that was a record player.
▪ There was no television set, no record player, not even a radio.
▪ What did one do, just throw out a perfectly good record player, which was probably not even recyclable?
Wiktionary
record player

n. An electronic device for playing phonograph records.

WordNet
record player

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.