Discman

A trademark from disc +‎ man, modelled on the earlier Walkman.

Discman

1. A Sony portable personal compact disc player product line

• discman (genericization)

Discman (plural Discmans or Discmen)

1. Alternative letter-case form of discman.
   • 1999 October 27, Mary McNamara, “She Who Tunes the Radio Rules the Drive”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 September 2025:

     And the car has always been the arena for the best battles because controlling the dial resulted in complete aural dominance: If you chose Aerosmith, everyone had to listen to Aerosmith. This is why today, when every member of the family could be plugged in, Jetson-like, to individual Discmen, they often are not.

   • 2012 September 25, Joey Faulkner, “MiniDisc, the forgotten format”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 November 2013:

     But it took a decade to make any impression on the mainstream – people stuck with cassettes for recording, and Walkmen and Discmen for portability – and almost as soon as it did, it was killed by the MP3 player.

   • 2018 April 11, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “How to Stay on Top of Breaking News”, in The New York Times‎^[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 April 2018:

     I use Sennheiser headphones when I want to listen to music closely, and those little Sony over-ear headphones (the ones that came with Discmen) for listening to music on the go.

• This term is sometimes taken to refer specifically to the product named Discman, rather than generically to any similar product.
• In generic use, sometimes not capitalized: discman.

• walkman