Word.ws English Dictionary

Frippertronics

Frippertronics noun: a system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.

Noun

Frippertronics (uncountable)

  1. A system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.
    • It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141

Origin of Frippertronics

From Fripp + -tronics, named after its inventor Robert Fripp (1946–); coined by Joanna Walton, Fripp's poet girlfriend in the late 1970s.

Questions about Frippertronics

What does Frippertronics mean?
Frippertronics means a system consisting of two reel-to-reel tape recorders linked to each other so that sounds can be mixed with a delay.
What part of speech is Frippertronics?
Frippertronics is a noun.

Words near Frippertronics in the dictionary

  1. fripperer
  2. fripperers
  3. fripperies
  4. frippers
  5. Frippertronic
  6. Frippertronics
  7. frippery
  8. frippet
  9. frippets
  10. frippish
  11. Fripps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Frippertronics (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Frippertronics.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/frippertronics. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.