Definitions

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  • noun music A small cassette containing a single track of popular music on each side

Etymologies

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Blend of cassette and single; originally a trademark.

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Examples

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Doing some fall closet cleanout over the weekend, I came across a stack of old cassingles -- oh how the word 'cassingle' warms my heart -- and decided it was time to make like Beyoncé and Jay-Z and upgrade

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Where "Mix Tape" concentrated on a single love story, "Talking to Girls" fills 200-plus pages with personal essays -- each pegged to a different pop song -- that wax nostalgic about everything from Sheffield's former schoolteachers to John Hughes movies to the ludicrousness of the cassingle.

    Review of "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran," by Rob Sheffield 2010

  • First cassette tape was a cassingle of Janet Jackson: “Pleasure Principle” with “Fast Girls” on the B side.

    Your Very First Time : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • One of the central problems with broad experimentations is that you force the listener to cut tracks from their playlists. iTunes is our modern cassingle -- we import hot songs and leave the rest to wallow in obscurity.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: How the Roots Got Over 2010

  • You SO WISH you had a cassingle of Queensryche's "Silent Lucidity" to listen to RIGHT NOW.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

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