banjo
(noun) a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
Source: WordNet® 3.1
banjo (plural banjos or banjoes)
A stringed musical instrument (chordophone), usually with a round body, a membrane-like soundboard and a fretted neck, played by plucking or strumming the strings.
Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
(slang) An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
(UK, Dagenham) A cul-de-sac with a round end.
banjo (third-person singular simple present banjos, present participle banjoing, simple past and past participle banjoed)
To play a banjo.
(transitive, slang, British) To beat, to knock down.
(transitive, slang, British, military) To shell or attack (a target).
Source: Wiktionary
Ban"jo, n. [Formerly also banjore and banjer; corrupted from bandore, through negro slave pronunciation.]
Definition: A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 May 2025
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
