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.
- 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.
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