Victrola

Word VICTROLA
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Definitions and meanings of "Victrola"

What do we mean by victrola?

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.

Noun describing the mental state of one who does not understand, and goes silent (sometimes angling one's head like the Victrola dog) Urban Dictionary

Old vinyl Disc player Urban Dictionary

Indicates someone is talkative; joking reference to needle on phonographs. Urban Dictionary

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The word "victrola" in example sentences

It's the old victrola he and Quimby used to listen to and its appearance makes the head burst into copious tears of regret. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Insist that you are 300 years old and think the phone is a malfunctioning victrola. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2010)

And he remembers well summer evenings spent listening to the victrola with WJB or taking rides in WJB's horseless carriage with his sweetheart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"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? ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Search in other blogs: be advised that victrola is between sandwich makers ❋ Unknown (2008)

The chorus appeared only as voices on a wind-up victrola. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A Complete Bunch of Pants: A dinosaur victrola listening to Buck Owens skip to main ❋ Lisa B. (2008)

Also fascinated to learn that "payola" came from "victrola" which I never knew... ❋ Unknown (2005)

He and Everett had taken turns dancing with her to Katie Greenwood's victrola and partnering her at the euchre games at the church hall. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sit down and play the victrola or do anything you like. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They have such a cute little home there, Clyde — pretty furniture, a victrola and all, and Agnes is so very happy with Fred. ❋ Unknown (2004)

However, Williams always denied the popular myth that he could read the label on a record as it spun around a victrola. ❋ Unknown (2002)

It was a place where you couldn't play music on a victrola. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They played the old records on the victrola and behaved like two children, giggling and knocking things over, ringing the old dinner bells, flicking lights on and off and chasing each other through the rooms. ❋ V.C. ANDREWS (1992)

Charlotte took out some old records and put them on a wind-up victrola. ❋ V.C. ANDREWS (1992)

Like a needle caught in the groove of a defective record on a victrola, it plays the same old tune over and over again. ❋ Norman Vincent Peale (1980)

Lutie Barlow was badly disappointed with the hundred and fifty dollar victrola her husband bought her. ❋ Katharine Reynolds (N/A)

So when I was sick of hearing her spout on about how "brilliant" her crazy friends were, I told her to shut her [pie hole] before I punched her in the box, and she went victrola on me. After a minute of silence, I [slowed] to 30 pushed her [out of the car]. ❋ ChuckChaser69 (2011)

[A dinosaur Victrola] list'ning [to Buck] [Owens]. ❋ Bugar Kings (2017)

"[Kristen] never [shuts] up! She [must've] been vaccinated with a Victrola needle." ❋ Paul Varjak (2012)

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