banjo
IPA: bˈændʒoʊ
noun
- A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
- Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
- (slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
- (UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
- (mining) A miner's round-nosed shovel.
verb
- To play a banjo.
- (transitive, slang, Britain) To beat, to knock down.
- (transitive, slang, Britain, military) To shell or attack (a target).
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Examples of "banjo" in Sentences
- Fiddle guitar banjo instrumental.
- Eventually he switched to the banjo.
- A Banjo Pier is a pier in the shape of a banjo.
- A banjo bracket flange has a wedge fit with the banjo rim.
- At that moment, Banjo starts to play a melody on his banjo.
- A guitarist picking up a banjo does not make a banjo a guitar.
- Banjo Ukulele strings are often steel strings like a regular banjo.
- Fun fact: the banjo was the first unique instrument made in America.
- Banjo players often also use the left hand, the fingering hand, to pick.
- An open back banjo is a banjo with no resonator sound projectile accessory .
- One of the members of the group was an aspiring young banjo player, Bela Fleck.
- Professional finishers who tape entire houses in one day will use a tool called a banjo.
- He picked up a trail-scarred banjo from the floor and began to strum a few wandering notes.
- Watching a neophyte take a crack at the banjo is the scariest thing since George Harrison tried playing the sitar.
- The banjo is the musical equivalent of the battle ax: metallic, obvious, lethal and usually wielded by someone who has not read Jane Austen.
- a machine he called a banjo, upon which he would play lewd and idolatrous music which was most pleasing to the ear; and he would sing songs while he played, which all ended with a yell.
- I'm sure down South in banjo country Faux News Princess Palin will actually be a boon to McDonnell since Southerners can no longer read, write or think critically and are becoming ever more obese like their idol Limbaugh while sitting on their sofas listening to Fixed News. carol
- So, it was one thing to play that music, and now it's something different to create your own music because trying to learn these violin pieces and cello pieces on the banjo is a great challenge, but they're not written for the banjo, so in a certain way, you can never really win, you know?