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Word: compacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usage:

Most likely to get you run over by a truck. First there was the boom box -- big, bad and blaring. But soon Sony introduced the Walkman, the compact musical device designed to be seen but not heard. Since then, sidewalks and streets have been filled with people wearing small foam-rubber circles on or in their ears and expressions of rapture on their faces. Watch out for that manhole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Most of the Decade | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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