walkman

• (cassette player): Walkman

(cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.

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walkman (countable and uncountable, plural walkmans or (uncommon) walkmen)

1. A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
   • 2015, Aaron Sorkin, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs, spoken by Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender):

     Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.

2. (Philippines, informal, uncountable) Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.

• discman

Borrowed from English walkman.

walkman m (plural walkmans)

1. (informal) walkman

   Synonym: baladeur

   • 2006, Dans le silence des mots d'amour, page 49:

     Si le cor du déjeuner avait sonné à ce moment-là, elle ne l'aurait pas entendu, à cause du walkman.

     If the lunch horn had sounded just then, she wouldn't have heard it, because of the walkman.

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔlk.men/, /ˈwɔlkˌmɛn/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔlkmen, -ɛn
• Hyphenation: walk‧man

walkman m (invariable)

1. walkman (portable cassette player)

• lettore MP3

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔk.mɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔkmɛn
• Syllabification: walk‧man

walkman m inan

1. (electronics) walkman

• “walkman”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “walkman”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.

walkman m (plural walkmans or walkmen or walkman)

1. walkman (portable cassette player)

• “walkman”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “walkman”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.

walkman n (plural walkmenuri)

1. walkman

Unadapted borrowing from English walkman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaɡman/ [ˈwaɣ̞.mãn], /ˈwalɡman/ [ˈwalɣ̞.mãn]
• Syllabification: walk‧man

walkman m (plural walkman)

1. walkman

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “walkman”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025