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/ˈbæn.dʒəʊ/ · noun
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..
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
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They all came back here — we cleared the room and put up tables for the reception — and then we went to another house on the banjo for a "knees-up".
Billy Tower lived in the far left house in the banjo that was Dagenham's version of cul de sacs. The trouble was you could be seen from the house and, in the time it took to walk along the Banjo, drugs could be flushed away.
The banjo format is not an unalloyed success these days: kids playing noisily on the quite narrow common green […]
Madar was turfed out on a final misdemeanour of banjoing one of his teammates in training before a big game
Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
"Me and other folk were just trying to get the boot in and some other guy banjoed [decked] him”.
Use banjo when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Banjo means 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..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...
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