means A synthetic plastic (polyvinyl chloride and its relatives), most famously the material of phonograph records — and, by extension, the records themselves.

from A chemist's clip-job from the early 1860s: 'vinyl' was coined by snipping the Latin 'vinum' (wine) and adding the chemical suffix '-yl,' because the underlying compound was linked to ethyl alcohol — the stuff of wine and spirits. So a word born from grapes ended up naming the slick polymer of raincoats, flooring, and spinning records. The musical sense — calling an LP a 'vinyl' — is a much later, 20th-century shorthand for the material it's pressed in.