Definition of "tape deck" []

• A tape recorder and player having no built-in amplifiers or speakers, used as a component in an audio system. (noun)

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• "Ferris has a state-of-the-art stereo; in 1986, I was still using the receiver and tape deck that came with my 1979 Soundesign stereo unit."
• "On the way home from the police station, Julia popped Teddy’s old tape in the Trooper’s tape deck and heard her children, years before, pleading, making a promise they wouldn’t keep to a man who wouldn’t hold them to it."
• "I slipped a Lenny Breau cassette into th tape deck and hoped that the guitarist's fluid genius would take my mind far away from plastic rooms"