covertape

covertape

English

Etymology

cover +‎ tape

Noun

covertape (plural covertapes)

1. (dated) A cassette tape offered as a covermount, containing music or computer software.
   • 1996, "Adie Nunn", bands wanted for fanzine covertape (on newsgroup alt.music.uk)

     In a couple of months I'll be putting a covertape, featuring several bands, on my fanzine 'Blind Youth'. I'm currently looking for unsigned bands/artists […]

   • 2003, "Weetomuncher", Earth Shaker (YS Covertape) (on newsgroup comp.sys.sinclair)

     This game was an amazing Boulderdash clone/ripoff which was released on a YS [Your Sinclair] covertape in about 1991 […]