walkman

Etymology

A trademark; from walk + man, coined in reference to an earlier product, Pressman, a portable tape recorder for journalists.

name

  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.”
  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.”
  3. A street urchin.

noun

  1. A 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.”
  2. Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.