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bigophones

bigophones is the plural of bigophone.

Meaning of bigophone

Noun

bigophone (plural bigophones)

  1. Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo
    • Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices...1978, Jan Romein, The Watershed of Two Eras: Europe in 1900, page 303

Questions about bigophones

What is bigophones the plural of?
Bigophones is the plural of bigophone.

Words near bigophones in the dictionary

  1. bigoniac
  2. bigonial
  3. bigons
  4. Bigonville
  5. bigophone
  6. bigophones
  7. bigorexia
  8. bigorexic
  9. bigorexics
  10. bigorra
  11. bigorrah

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