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roentgenizdat

roentgenizdat noun: improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray film, used to smuggle prohibited music into the Soviet Union.

Noun

roentgenizdat (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray film, used to smuggle prohibited music into the Soviet Union.

Origin of roentgenizdat

Borrowed from Russian рентгенизда́т (rentgenizdát).

Questions about roentgenizdat

What does roentgenizdat mean?
Roentgenizdat means improvised gramophone recordings made from X-ray film, used to smuggle prohibited music into the Soviet Union.
What part of speech is roentgenizdat?
Roentgenizdat is a noun.

Words near roentgenizdat in the dictionary

  1. roentgenising
  2. roentgenism
  3. roentgenium
  4. roentgenization
  5. roentgenizations
  6. roentgenizdat
  7. roentgenize
  8. roentgenized
  9. roentgenizes
  10. roentgenizing
  11. roentgenkymogram

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