mini-albumn.
/ˈmɪnɪˌalbəm/, U.S. /ˈmɪniˌælbəm/ A music recording consisting of fewer tracks than a normal record album.
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pre-release1871
record album1904
re-release1907
ten-inch1908
twelve-incher1909
demonstration record1911
pressing1912
swinger1924
repressing1927
transcription1931
long-player1932
rush release1935
pop record1937
album1945
demonstration disc1947
pop disc1947
pop single1947
long-play1948
picture disc1948
781949
single1949
forty-five1950
demo disc1952
EP1952
shellac1954
top of the pops1956
gold disc1957
acetate1962
platinum disc1964
chartbuster1965
miss1965
cover1966
reissue1966
pirate label1968
rock record1968
thirty-three (and a third)1968
sampler1969
white-label1970
double album1971
dubplate1976
seven-inch1977
mini-album1980
joint1991
1980 N.Y. Times 9 July d1/3 A slickly packaged spinoff of the 78-r.p.m. record, a low-priced mini-album called Nu-Disk, is the latest marketing stratagem of CBS Records.
1989 Q Dec. 132/3 A six-track mini-album of rare excellence from a London band.
1995 Melody Maker 6 May 38/1 They have been carving up some great slabs of sound over their five albums/mini albums.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1980