jug band

noun

: a band that uses primitive or improvised instruments (such as jugs, washboards, and kazoos) to play blues, jazz, and folk music

Examples of jug band in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Look, for instance, for a conductor with a clock as a face, dancing luggage and a cicada jug band, among a host of other oddities. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026

The $10 general admission during the Lilac Festival on weekends includes a petting zoo, a lilac maze, a hoedown and jug band shows, lawn games, and lilac viewing. — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026

Sonically, the genre is indebted to blues and gospel music, but echoes of other kinds of Black music—like work songs, string and jug band music, Black vaudeville, boogie-woogie, and even minstrelsy—can be heard in it. — Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026

But playing songs associated with his close friend — the one who had invited the teenage Weir into the jug band that became the Dead — remained daunting. — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1911, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for jug band

• armband
• backhand
• bandstand
• baseband
• broadband
• command
• cropland
• demand
• disband
• dreamland
• expand
• farmhand