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Look up: kazoo

  1. kazoo
    [n] - a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. kazoo
    a device into which a person sings or hums and which consists usu. of an open-ended tube with a membrane-covered hole..WEBIN 66 2-.. Category: General
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Kazoo
    Ka·zoo' noun [ Etymol. uncertain.] A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/K/3

  4. kazoo
    noun a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Kazoo
    • (n.) A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. kazoo
    (from the article `mirliton`) ...or device in which sound waves produced by the player`s voice or by an instrument vibrate a membrane, thereby imparting a buzzing quality to the ... ...19th century. From 1883 on, a French toy maker named Bigot brought out a series called bigophones, which were shaped like orchestral instruments. ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/k/17

  7. Kazoo
    Kazoo is American slang for the buttocks.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. Kazoo
    Kazoo is American slang for the buttocks.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. kazoo
    Simple wind instrument adding a buzzing quality to the singing voice on the principle of `comb and paper` music
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  10. Kazoo
    for comparison: 23.25 mm (0.92 inch) The `kazoo` is a wind instrument which adds a "buzzing" timbral quality to a player`s voice when the player vocalizes into it. The kazoo is a type of mirliton which is a membranophone a device which modifies the sound of a person`s voice by way o...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazoo



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