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.
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."
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...
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.