open-reel tape

[oh-puhn-reel]

open-reel tape

[oh-puhn-reel]
noun
audiotape, usually 1/4 in. (64 mm) wide, wound on a single reel and requiring a separate take-up reel for playing or recording.
Also called reel-to-reel tape.


Origin:
1965–70
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Open-reel tape is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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