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long-playing

[ lawng-pley-ing, long- ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to microgroove records devised to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute.


long-playing

adjective

  1. of or relating to an LP (long-playing record)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of long-playing1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences

When compact discs hit the marketplace in 1982, retailers were quick to pronounce the death of long-playing vinyl records.

From Salon

To me, the Koreans were collateral damage, the unfortunate victims in a long-playing drama that predated their presence by decades.

A third straight playoff loss loomed and with it, an inevitable recurrence of the postseason nightmares that have become their long-playing narrative.

He took great pleasure, for example, in long-playing classical music records.

After the threesome heard three long-playing records, she left his apartment with butterflies.

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