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flatpick

/ˈflætpɪk/

flatpick verb: to play acoustic guitar in the flatpicking style.

Verb

flatpick (third-person singular simple present flatpicks, present participle flatpicking, simple past and past participle flatpicked)

  1. to play acoustic guitar in the flatpicking style.

Forms of flatpick

third-person singular presentflatpicks
present participleflatpicking
past participleflatpicked
pastflatpicked
alternative formflat-pick

Origin of flatpick

Back-formation from flatpicking.

Questions about flatpick

What does flatpick mean?
Flatpick means to play acoustic guitar in the flatpicking style.
What part of speech is flatpick?
Flatpick is a verb.
How do you pronounce flatpick?
Flatpick is pronounced /ˈflætpɪk/.
What is the past tense of flatpick?
The past tense of flatpick is flatpicked.

Words near flatpick in the dictionary

  1. flatowner
  2. flatowners
  3. flatpack
  4. flatpacked
  5. flatpacks
  6. flatpick
  7. flatpicked
  8. flatpicking
  9. flatpicks
  10. flatplan
  11. flatplanned

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