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jug band

jug band noun: a group of rustic musicians, specializing in bluegrass or folk music, whose instruments include empty jugs, bottles, and similar containers of various sizes which produce musical sounds when the player blows across the openings at the tops of their necks.

Noun

jug band (plural jug bands)

  1. (US, especially) A group of rustic musicians, specializing in bluegrass or folk music, whose instruments include empty jugs, bottles, and similar containers of various sizes which produce musical sounds when the player blows across the openings at the tops of their necks.
    • Not only do they sing but they broadcast tunes from their "jug band," consisting of a gallon jug, as washboard and a skillet, a fiddle and a guitar.1933 March 18, “The Southern Singers”, in The Afro-American, page 9
    • A jug band, for those who haven't had the pleasure, is a band composed of unusual instruments which plays old timey jazz, country blues and folk music. The instruments in the Kweskin band, which are typical, include guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, jug, washtub bass, washboard, kazoo, and penny...1968, "Jug Band: Washboard Virtuosos," Evening Independent (Florida, USA), 14 March, p. 5D (retrieved 23 Aug. 2010)

Examples of jug band in a sentence

  • A jug band, for those who haven't had the pleasure, is a band composed of unusual instruments which plays old timey jazz, country blues and folk music.1968, "Jug Band: Washboard Virtuosos," Evening Independent (Florida, USA), 14 March, p. 5D (retrieved 23 Aug. 2010)
  • "We present to you, the jug band!" We pulled out straw hats, banjos, jugs, horrible buck-toothed dentures, and commenced to pickin' and grinnin'.2004, Adam Copeland, Adam Copeland on Edge, →ISBN:

Forms of jug band

pluraljug bands

Questions about jug band

What does jug band mean?
Jug band means a group of rustic musicians, specializing in bluegrass or folk music, whose instruments include empty jugs, bottles, and similar containers of various sizes which produce musical sounds when the player blows across the openings at the tops of their necks.
How do you use jug band in a sentence?
A jug band, for those who haven't had the pleasure, is a band composed of unusual instruments which plays old timey jazz, country blues and folk music.
What part of speech is jug band?
Jug band is a noun.
What is the plural of jug band?
The plural of jug band is jug bands.

Words near jug band in the dictionary

  1. Juewa
  2. Juffrou
  3. jufti knot
  4. jufti knots
  5. jug
  6. jug band
  7. jug bands
  8. jug ears
  9. jug hold
  10. jug holds
  11. jug wine

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