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tromboning

tromboning is the present participle and gerund of trombone.

Meaning of trombone

Verb

trombone (third-person singular simple present trombones, present participle tromboning, simple past and past participle tromboned)

  1. To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
  2. (slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
    • […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]2015, Kathryn Ramey, Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page 357

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Questions about tromboning

What is tromboning the present participle and gerund of?
Tromboning is the present participle and gerund of trombone.

Words near tromboning in the dictionary

  1. tromboner
  2. tromboners
  3. trombones
  4. tromboney
  5. tromboni
  6. tromboning
  7. trombonist
  8. trombonists
  9. trombony
  10. tromboon
  11. tromboons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tromboning (page history and authors); trombone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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