banjo
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
banjo (plural banjos)
- 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.
- I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
- 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.
- 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:
- They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
- 2013, M. C. Dutton, The Godfathers of London:
- Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
- 1963, Peter Willmott, The Evolution of a Community, page 75:
banjo (banjos, present participle banjoing; past and past participle banjoed)
- To play a banjo.
- (transitive, slang, British) To beat, to knock down.
- 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95
- Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing
' but that she had asked for it.
- Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing
- 1998, "Fergie's world just gets Madar" (Sport), Sunday Mail, Jan 4, 1998
- Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
- 2007, "Return of Smeato, the extraordinary hero", Times Online, Jul 31, 2007
- "Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.
- 1989, Susan S. M. Edwards, Policing 'domestic' Violence: Women, the Law and the State, page 95
- (transitive, slang, British, military) To shell or attack (a target).
- 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS (page cxxx)
- Riding reported that on the day Mayne had asked for DZ coordinates, their base had been banjoed by the Germans.
- 2008, Michael Asher, The Regiment: The Definitive Story of the SAS (page cxxx)
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