ラジカセ
らじかせ
noun
radio cassette player
1.
radio cassette player, boombox
A portable device combining a radio and cassette tape player/recorder. Short for ラジオカセット. While the technology is outdated, the word appears in older learning materials.
ラジカセで英語のテープを聞いた。
I listened to English tapes on a radio cassette player.
昔はラジカセが人気だった。
Radio cassette players used to be popular.
ラジカセで好きな曲を録音して何度も聞いた。
I recorded my favorite songs on the radio cassette player and listened to them over and over.
ABBREVIATION: ラジオカセット → ラジカセ
LOANWORD combining "radio" + "cassette."
Historical term for a portable audio device popular in the 1980s-90s. Now largely replaced by digital audio players and smartphones. Appears in older JLPT N5 vocabulary lists.
RELATED:
- テープレコーダー (tape recorder)
- カセットテープ (cassette tape)
- 録音する (to record)