bongo
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈbɑŋɡoʊ/
:
bongó
- Give the members of this group some handheld percussion instruments, such as a tambourine, triangle, blocks, bongos, maracas, and so on.
- bongo drum
It's time for Drew's News playing all the good news beats on our good news bongos.
- It's time for Drew's News playing all the good news beats on our good news bongos.
- We had great dancing, fairies playing bongos.
- And you were like playing the bongos that I remember that was happening a lot when you were off work.
- But you go the beat of your own drum, the beat of your own bongos, man, whatever.
Examples
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The musician skillfully played the bongo during the lively Latin dance performance.
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The students duly followed our directions and also accompanied the rites with bongo drumming and songs addressed to the Yoruba gods.
Academic text (1992) -
I can play the bongo.
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Bill and Frank found a bongo drum somewhere, and...
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Next, pass a small bongo drum around the circle so that each individual gets a chance to play something on it.
Academic text (1996) -
The other had a group of smiling male musicians pounding bongo drums under palm trees.
Fiction book (1996) -
At the festival, a group of drummers kept the rhythm on their bongo drums under the bright sun.
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She joined the band and helped create a captivating sound with her bongo and other percussion instruments.
Synonyms
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3.2
Two small drums of different sizes joined together and played with the hands
Compounds
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Etymology
Bongo for the small hand drum comes from Cuban Spanish and African words. Think of the two small drums played with the hands, like a small cousin of the conga, and that is why bongo means this kind of drum.