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discman

discman noun: a portable personal compact disc player with headphones.

Noun (1)

discman

  1. A portable personal compact disc player with headphones.

Proper noun capitalized: Discman

Discman

  1. A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line

Noun (2) capitalized: Discman

Discman (plural Discmans or Discmen)

  1. 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 member of the family could be plugged in, Jetson-like, to individual Discmen, they...1999 October 27, Mary McNamara, “She Who Tunes the Radio Rules the Drive”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24...
    • 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 September 25, Joey Faulkner, “MiniDisc, the forgotten format”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Nov 2013

Forms of discman

alternative formDiscman
pluralDiscmans
pluralDiscmen

Origin of discman

Genericization of the trademark Discman

A trademark from disc + man, modelled on the earlier Walkman.

Questions about discman

What does discman mean?
Discman means a portable personal compact disc player with headphones.
What part of speech is discman?
Discman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of discman?
The plural of discman is Discmans.

Words near discman in the dictionary

  1. discludes
  2. discluding
  3. disclusion
  4. discmag
  5. discmags
  6. discman
  7. Discmans
  8. Discmen
  9. disco
  10. disco ball
  11. disco balls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: discman (page history and authors); Discman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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