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- noun A form of
magnetic tapetechnology foraudio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. - noun countable A
cartridge for an 8-track player.
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Examples
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So, years and years ago, someone pulled out a master tape, but it was for the 8-track master and it was compressed to death, and they had been sending that around the world as the master for about 10 or 12 years.
Mike Ragogna: Just A Juggalo: Chatting with Insane Clown Posse, Plus Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein and N.E.D. (No Evidence of Disease) Mike Ragogna 2011
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So, years and years ago, someone pulled out a master tape, but it was for the 8-track master and it was compressed to death, and they had been sending that around the world as the master for about 10 or 12 years.
Mike Ragogna: Just A Juggalo: Chatting with Insane Clown Posse, Plus Audio Fidelity's Marshall Blonstein and N.E.D. (No Evidence of Disease) Mike Ragogna 2011
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And he's hardly an anomaly: these days, the idea that a journalist would operate in a single venue with a single standard of conduct seems as dated as an 8-track tape.
Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite: Will The Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010
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Cheap Trick is pleased to announce additional tour dates in support of the self-released album The Latest, which garnered the title of the #1 selling 8-track in the world in 2009.
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And he's hardly an anomaly: these days, the idea that a journalist would operate in a single venue with a single standard of conduct seems as dated as an 8-track tape.
Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite: Will The Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010
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In 1966 we got a brand-new 1967 Ford Country Squire with an 8-track.
Cool Jazz 2009
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I recorded it on an 8-track tape player, all the parts, and put it on a cassette and sent it to him never expecting to hear back.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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If this offense were attached to an automobile, it would be the 8-track player.
Waiting for Tebow to Go Splat Reed Albergotti 2011
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I recorded it on an 8-track tape player, all the parts, and put it on a cassette and sent it to him never expecting to hear back.
Mike Ragogna: Monday Madness: Chatting with Rob Zombie, Danny Elfman, Devo's Gerald Casale and More Mike Ragogna 2011
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And he's hardly an anomaly: These days, the idea that a journalist would operate in a single venue with a single standard of conduct seems as dated as an 8-track tape.
Linda Keenan: Shadow Elite : Will the Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up? Linda Keenan 2010
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