eight-track tape

or 8-track tape

[ eyt-trak ]

noun

1. a magnetic-tape cartridge, especially one carrying four pairs of stereo tracks of prerecorded sound or music.

Example Sentences

This was via, ahem, an eight-track tape player.

From New York Times

Back in the era of the eight-track tape, the actor Will Swenson’s father played Neil Diamond albums practically on a loop.

From New York Times

All the data collected by the spacecraft instruments would be stored on eight-track tape recorders and then sent back to Earth by a 23-watt transmitter—about the power level of a refrigerator light bulb.

From Scientific American

Fred’s company sold the White House the eight-track tape player that was installed on Air Force One.

From Washington Post

At 13, he joined a local gang, the Whittier Varrio Locos, and racked up a rap sheet as a minor that included robbing a man of an eight-track tape deck, taking a woman’s purse at knifepoint, and threatening the staff of a reform school, according to probation records.

From Los Angeles Times