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long-playing

long-playing adjective: referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had; an LP; generally a 12-inch 33⅓-RPM vinyl record.

Adjective

long-playing (comparative longer-playing, superlative longest-playing)

  1. Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had; an LP; generally a 12-inch 33⅓-RPM vinyl record.
    • Victor Crabbe's headmaster was a little man called Boothby [...] who subscribed to a popular book club and had many long-playing records, who invited people to curry tiffin and said, "Take a pew."1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38

Forms of long-playing

comparativelonger-playing
superlativelongest-playing

Questions about long-playing

What does long-playing mean?
Long-playing means referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had; an LP; generally a 12-inch 33⅓-RPM vinyl record.
What part of speech is long-playing?
Long-playing is an adjective.

Words near long-playing in the dictionary

  1. long-noses
  2. long-pending
  3. long-period
  4. long-play
  5. long-player
  6. long-playing
  7. long-plays
  8. long-podded cowpea
  9. long-podded cowpeas
  10. long-press
  11. long-pressed

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