Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any upright or console model phonograph from the early 1900s, usually with a wooden cabinet body and an interior horn for the projection of sound, that plays 78 rpm records using a steel needle.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a brand of gramophone
Examples
“It's the old victrola he and Quimby used to listen to and its appearance makes the head burst into copious tears of regret.”
“It was not that the white American worker was threatened with starvation, but it was what was, after all, a more important question,—whether or not he should lose his frontroom and victrola and even the dream of a Ford car.”
“Insist that you are 300 years old and think the phone is a malfunctioning victrola.”
The Washington Post: I miss telemarketers -- and, soon, land-line pollsters
“And he remembers well summer evenings spent listening to the victrola with WJB or taking rides in WJB's horseless carriage with his sweetheart.”
“The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough?”
“Well I give them both credit, they both still know how to crank the victrola, But i would have to give the Debate to Joe Biden for the accounting on the credit problems.”
“A Complete Bunch of Pants: A dinosaur victrola listening to Buck Owens skip to main”
“Search in other blogs: be advised that victrola is between sandwich makers”
in other blogs: be advised that victrola is between sandwich makers | Seattle Metblogs
“The chorus appeared only as voices on a wind-up victrola.”
“Also fascinated to learn that "payola" came from "victrola" which I never knew...”
My PD Upped The Spins On Celine And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘victrola’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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The Glass Menagerie
Words from the play by Tennessee Williams.
glass, menagerie, stumble-john, portieres, dandelion wine, Comfortable as a ..., Century of Progress, Blue Roses, Shakespeare's sister, pleurosis, Holy Jeez!, Zzzzzp! and 20 more...
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Across the Pond
Words from Europe that amuse me. Words I associate with the BBC and British Literature. Any word that is not from the US or has a different spelling/pronunciation than the US version.
knickers, jodhpurs, stones, peckish, haver, blather, kith, valkyrie, haggis, egad, tosser, schadenfreude and 29 more...
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Tunie: Looking Out My Back Door
by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm si...troubles, sorrows, tomorrow, magician, apparition, wondrous, flying spoon, ride, band, elephants, tambourines, buck owens and 18 more...
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