trombone

trom·bone | \ träm-ˈbōn

, (ˌ)trəm-ˈbōn, ˈträm-ˌbōn \

Definition of trombone

: a brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical metal tube with two turns and having a movable slide or valves for varying the tone and a usual range one octave lower than that of the trumpet

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Recent Examples on the Web In it, Willard’s manager character, a blond, moussed guy in a trombone-print shirt, interrupts a group of plucky folk singers rehearsing a sea shanty for a show. — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, "No One Had Instincts Like Fred Willard," 18 May 2020 There have been two-person second lines; front-porch trombone concerts; coordinated, appropriately distanced street dances. — Arthur Longworth, The New York Review of Books, "Pandemic Journal, April 6–12," 12 Apr. 2020 Alex was a talented trombone and baritone player in his high school marching band and orchestra, said Alexander Kaminsky, the school director of bands, the Sun Sentinel reported. — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, "Parkland shooting 2 years later: Remembering the 17 victims of the school massacre," 14 Feb. 2020 And Kit McClure, who with her trombone elbowed her way into the school’s marching band and went on to be an active feminist and a successful musician. — Adrianna Smith, Washington Post, "The pioneering women who fought to get in, and fit in, at Yale," 22 Nov. 2019 So how has ska music retained such resonance when the rest of the world cast it off as a silly fad of the ‘90s; a cultural blip that simply put down its trombone and died? — Jessica Lipsky, Billboard, "Ska Lives: How the Genre's Fourth Wave Has Managed to Pick It Up Where the '90s Left Off," 25 Apr. 2019 Version seven, featuring the dazzling Venezuelan singer Ahyvin Bruno, may be their best yet—a Cuban son, an Afro-Caribbean style, on which Stroink and Boltó play trumpet and trombone with cup mutes. — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, "The Boys Making Beautiful Quarantine Songs on a Barcelona Rooftop," 25 Mar. 2020 Portune in high school could play trombone and was a great singer. — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, "'We will never forget you.' Greater Cincinnati bids farewell to Todd Portune," 3 Feb. 2020 Just 48 hours before the entire city was put on lockdown, Sara called trombone player Travis Gardner, who was supposed to play at their reception. — CBS News, "D.C. couple holds wedding ceremony less than 24 hours before city's stay-at-home order," 4 Apr. 2020

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“Trombone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trombone. Accessed 31 May. 2020.

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trombone

noun

English Language Learners Definition of trombone

: a large brass musical instrument that you blow into and that has a tube that you slide in and out to play different notes

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trombone

noun

trom·bone | \ träm-ˈbōn

Kids Definition of trombone

: a brass musical instrument made of a long bent tube that has a wide opening at one end and one section that slides in and out to make different tones

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