Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cassette containing blank or prerecorded videotape.
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- noun A
cassette containingblank orrecorded videotape ; either inVHS orBetamax format .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cassette for videotape
Etymologies
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Examples
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I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden.
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I obtained my own first copies of Mojica's films on bootleg videocassette, which is how all first generation American fans saw them: in poor quality and in Portuguese, a language we did not read or speak, which made them all the more dreamlike and exciting --like the discovery of something long forbidden.
Archive 2008-02-24 2008
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They only know one thing and that’s that the last time we were at this juncture, a little thing called a videocassette or a CD or a pay-per-view movie made the studios and those conglomerates 18 gajillion billion dollars.
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Heck, the expanded version of the pilot even includes a disclaimer warning us not to pirate said videocassette.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set Michael Giltz 2011
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This question arises as to guns, knives, videocassette records, alcohol, books about how to commit contract murder, chemistry textbooks, publication of the names of certain crime witnesses, and more.
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at Ten Thousand Feet) Marshall Moore 2011
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On a Tuesday morning in June 1993, Dr. Epstein opened a padded brown envelope about the size of a videocassette that had come in the mail.
Charles Epstein, Down syndrome pioneer and survivor of Unabomber attack, dies at 77 2011
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I watched BARBARELLA on videocassette taped off HBO.
Special Guest Post: KARL BRINGS YOU TO GENIUS PLACE CAKELINGS 2009
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The building ejects my condominium like an enormous videocassette.
Everything Has Been Arranged (or, Chamomile Tea at Ten Thousand Feet) Marshall Moore 2011
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Before the iPod, there was the Rio, which few consumers got to use because it was sued out of existence, and the videocassette recorder, which consumers did get to use because Sony won its case in the U.S.
Art Brodsky: PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won Art Brodsky 2012
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