VCR

abbreviation (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology) A video cassette recorder. The abbreviation is also used as a verb: to record (a television programme) on video. Etymology: The initial letters of Video Cassette Recorder. History and Usage: Sales of VCRs reached the one million mark in the US in 1981, heralding the beginning of a video boom. The abbreviation VCR became widely used in the US at the beginning of this boom, but is less well known than video in the UK. Even though it is an abbreviation in which all the initials have to be pronounced separately, it acquired derivatives such as the verb defined above, the adjective VCR'd (provided with a VCR, recorded on VCR), and the noun VCR-ing. It's tempting to conclude that docs are automatically big draws in a four-TV channel (although heavily VCR'd) nation [the UK]. Los Angeles Times 13 Nov. 1986, section 6, p. 10 The VCR-ing of America: videocassettes have fast-forwarded into our lives. headline in Los Angeles Times 28 Dec. 1986, calendar section, p. 2 Nothing they do in the Winter Olympics reminds me of the torture I went through in phys ed class. So I'll be watching or VCRing every minute. People 15 Feb. 1988, p. 9