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A selection of audio recordings taken from various musical groups and placed on one media (cassette, cd, mp3 playlist). It is often given as gift to friends and used in the courting rituals of teenagers.
"Hey, you're pretty... so I made you a mix tape."
mix tape by Tori Beth June 9, 2005

confidential mix tape 

A mixed CD of personal songs made by one person that he or she is too ashamed to share with his or her buddies. The most common type of confidential mix tape is a CD full of love songs for Valentine's day.
Duder 1: "You're gonna leave the CD in her car so when she starts them shits up in the morning it'll start playing? Nicely done. When do I get to hear it."

Duder 2: "Never doggy! That's a confidential mix tape for sure."

Duder 1: "You're such a bitch dogg. I gots to hear your amazing love ballads."
confidential mix tape by westfalia February 15, 2010
Some stupid thing your friend gives you to try to make you feel better, but never works
Brian - you broke up with Carly? I'm gonna make you a mix tape!
Mark - ugh, please don't
Brian - why not?
Mark - i want to forget about it, not always remember it with that tape
Brian - o...
mix tape by TheFish97 August 1, 2012

middle passage mix-tapes 

A term for black people music, comes from the middle passage which black slaves would travel on during the slave trade
The local rap station was really blasting some of those middle passage mix-tapes

my mixtape 

is fire
bro u should buy my mixtape
my mixtape by Loonbags February 27, 2015
A normally shitty couple of songs given to you by your aspiring rapper friend who thinks he's gonna "make it" in the music industry. They claim it is "fire" but it's probably a bunch of garbage. The number of mixtapes circling the internet now has in fact gotten so large that the government has had to set up multiple fires around the country to burn their friends' shitty mixtapes.
Friend: Yo check out my mixtape mang I'm spittin some real hot fire
You: I'd rather die