Discman
A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line
Proper noun
- A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line
Origin
A trademark from disc + man, modelled on the earlier Walkman.
Derived
Noun
- Alternative letter-case form of discman.
- And the car has always been the arena for the best battles because controlling the dial resulted in complete aural dominance: If you chose Aerosmith, everyone had to listen to Aerosmith. This is why today, when every...
- 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...
- I use Sennheiser headphones when I want to listen to music closely, and those little Sony over-ear headphones (the ones that came with Discmen) for listening to music on the go. - 2018 April 11, Jonah Engel Bromwich,...