plural kazoos
: an instrument that imparts a buzzing quality to the human voice and that usually consists of a small metal or plastic tube with a side hole covered by a thin membrane
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Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Fallon, 50, started with a kazoo and banged on a drum.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
As the view switched to Fox News channel to show various states being called for former President Donald Trump, the shouts got even louder, with kazoos and horns adding to the cacophony.
—Staff Report, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
The kazoo exercise gave the neuroscientists at the conference the chance to experience first-hand the effect of music making on mental health.
—Eva Amsen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Behind its rotating thirty-foot globe, retirees rode oversize tricycles and took up woodworking or the kazoo.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The gap in production quality between America’s Sweethearts and the CMT series is like the difference between Dizzy Gillespie and a child playing a kazoo, but for at least four of the seven episodes, America’s Sweethearts is a rerun of Making the Team.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
Guests can listen to live music from the Carmel Rotary Amphitheater and check out special events like the Carmel Firehouse Cook-Off, Jim Keckley Donut Day and an Independence Day kazoo parade for kids.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2024
While Bacon strummed away on guitar, Sedgwick buzzed away at her instrument of choice, the kazoo.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
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Noun
Everyone used to say that the horns sound like kazoos on that record, which is a slight overstatement.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Fallon, 50, started with a kazoo and banged on a drum.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
As the view switched to Fox News channel to show various states being called for former President Donald Trump, the shouts got even louder, with kazoos and horns adding to the cacophony.
—Staff Report, The Tennessean, 5 Nov. 2024
The kazoo exercise gave the neuroscientists at the conference the chance to experience first-hand the effect of music making on mental health.
—Eva Amsen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
Behind its rotating thirty-foot globe, retirees rode oversize tricycles and took up woodworking or the kazoo.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The gap in production quality between America’s Sweethearts and the CMT series is like the difference between Dizzy Gillespie and a child playing a kazoo, but for at least four of the seven episodes, America’s Sweethearts is a rerun of Making the Team.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
Guests can listen to live music from the Carmel Rotary Amphitheater and check out special events like the Carmel Firehouse Cook-Off, Jim Keckley Donut Day and an Independence Day kazoo parade for kids.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2024
While Bacon strummed away on guitar, Sedgwick buzzed away at her instrument of choice, the kazoo.
—Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
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“Kazoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kazoo. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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