Banjo

Definitions

1. 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.
2. Any of various similar musical instruments, such as the Tuvan doshpuluur, with a membrane-like soundboard.
3. An object shaped like a banjo, especially a frying pan or a shovel.
   slang
4. A cul-de-sac with a round end.
   UK
5. A miner's round-nosed shovel.
6. An egg sandwich fried on a flattop and served in a bun as would a burger, ellipsis of egg banjo.
   Malaysia
7. The frenulum of the penis.
   slang, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

“I come⟳ from Alabama with my banjo on my knee...”

“For quotations using this term, see⟳ Citations:banjo.”

“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 […]”

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