Meaning of Banjo | Babel Free

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

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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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