Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An electronic device for recording and playing back video images and sound on a videocassette.
Wiktionary
- videocassette recorder. Plays and records video cassettes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. acronym a videocasette recorder.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) TV programs
Etymologies
- v(ideo)c(assette) r(ecorder). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He has said that the VCR is the greatest friend that the American film producer ever had.”
“Mpeg-VCR is awesome for clipping out commercials or what-not because you can customize a clip without re-encoding.”
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““I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone,” he stated.”
“The VCR is borked, and skips over half the channels we have available through our cable service.”
“Jack Valenti famously told Congress in 1982, "The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone.”
“I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”
“If those aftermarkets are decimated, shrunken, collapsed because of what I am going to be explaining to you in a minute, because of the fact that the VCR is stripping those things clean, those markets clean of our profit potential, you are going to have devastation in this marketplace.”
“I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.”
““I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone,” he intoned darkly.”
“The VCR is set up to tape Smallville tonight, since I'll be at writer's group.”
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icebox, bread box, touch tone phone, tit for tat, five and dime, groovy, channel changer, film, cassette player, VCR, record, dial tone and 7 more...
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