Cassinglen.
/kəˈsɪŋɡ(ə)l/ colloquial.
An audio-cassette containing a single piece of (usually popular) music on each side; spec. one adapted for repeated play without rewinding.
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1978 Trade Marks Jrnl. 29 Nov. 2633/2 Cassingle... Magnetic tapes contained in cassettes, adapted to play either of the two recordings on each side repeatedly without rewinding... 22 July, 1977.
1981 N.Y. Times 29 July c19/3 Now the idea of putting out singles on cassettes—they call them cassingles—seems to be catching on in Britain as well.
1982 Washington Post 31 Oct. l1 Singles..recently introduced by CBS (which introduced the two-sided disc back in 1908); the cassingle, which lists for $2.98 and goes totally against the idea of convenience.
1983 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 5 Apr. tm32/2 Cassingle... For pre-recorded magnetic tape cassettes (U.S.Cl. 36). First use Jun. 22, 1982.
1987 Independent 20 Feb. 14/8 Single and LP records are on the way out. Within 10 years, we will all be buying ‘cassingles’, cassettes and compact discs.
1989 Times 14 Apr. 44/3 Until a few months ago the ‘cassingle’ was essentially a promotional device distributed free of charge to the radio stations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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