banjo
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- noun
- /ˈbæn.dʒoʊ/
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banjo
- In high school, he began a jazz band and played piano, banjo, saxophone, and clarinet.
- play the banjo
- banjo and fiddle
We also love to play the banjo, which I do on occasion.
- We also love to play the banjo, which I do on occasion.
- That became my banjo that you've seen in other videos.
- I, I, I have a banjo and I play, you know, rock songs on it.
- So I've been going over YouTube trying to find videos of him playing solo banjo.
- And then I started to play dueling banjos theme on the guitar and you started to clog dance against your will.
- I just started learning banjo and Kazooie snake.
- Maybe I could learn the banjo and then thinking, no, Steve Martin did that.
- Have either of you ever snapped your banjo?
- Ratifies his own life satisfaction, as in and his expression of it to himself in his banjo's twang.
- And he wanted that like banjo sound, but he wanted it to sound like more like suspenseful.
- If you are squeamish, you've been told, all right, the title that Theo has put broken banjo.
- I'll listen to gaming soundtracks like Sea of Thieves, out of Wilds, little banjos, Red Dead Redemption soundtrack.
- Yeah, well, Deliverance was like the banjo, not the creepy shit.
Examples
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Marcantonio was much more affectionate to him and bought him his first banjo to encourage his singing.
Fiction book (2001) -
There is a banjo player and a man who sings.
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I, I, I have a banjo and I play, you know, rock songs on it.
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You got a banjo in that case, wanna sing a couple of songs for me?
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We also love to play the banjo, which I do on occasion.
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Learning that I write country songs and play a little banjo, the Folkadelic invited me to join the band.
Fiction book (2002) -
There's many a good tune played on an old Banjo.
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Including me, our group consisted of three guitars, a banjo, and a washtub bass.
Fiction book (1996) -
Deep in a swampy wood, Kermit the Frog plucked a banjo and sang his questions.
Blog text (12) -
In the bluegrass band, he played the banjo with great skill and enthusiasm.
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Etymology
Banjo comes from West African words like mbanza or banza, names for small string instruments that were brought to the Americas. That's why a banjo is a plucked string instrument with a long neck and a round body, a bit like a small guitar.