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tambourine Definition

tam·bou·rine (tam′bə rēn)

noun

a shallow, single-headed hand drum having jingling metal disks in the rim: it is played by shaking, hitting with the knuckles, etc.

Etymology: Fr tambourin: see tambourin

tambourine Related Forms
tam′·bou·rin·ist noun
tambourine Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • play: I saw him once trying to play the tambourine on a straw hat!
  • design: The Rhythm Tech Hat Trick and Double Hat Trick are tambourines designed for mounting on Hi-Hat pull rods.
  • make: I hope you enjoy the picture I made of you; I made the tambourine from milk bottle tops.
  • bang: Blake the happy-clappy revivalist of Glad Day, banging a tambourine with Michael Horowitz.
  • have: The teacher has one tambourine and another is passed quietly around the circle to a steady pulse.
  • cross: All that we are left with after crossing the tambourine and submarine is, presumably, a submarine with a tambourine inside it.

Preposition: on

  • hat: I saw him once trying to play the tambourine on a straw hat!

Adjective modifier

  • small: The RhythmTech Hat Trick is an ultra lightweight, small tambourine designed for attaching to the Hi-Hat pull rod.
  • first: DST ( Drum Set Tambourine ) is the first tambourine specifically designed for the drummer.

Modifies a noun

  • man: Tambourine Man, " probably the best known song here.
  • sound: You can instantly layer a tambourine sound onto a snare or tom or hand drum.
tambourine Quotes

Hey! MrTambourine Man, playa song for me. I'm not sleepyand there is no place I'm going to.

—Dylan, Bob pseudonym of  Robert Allen Zimmerman

Whenyou've shouted'Rule Britannia', whenyou've sung 'God save the Queen'ö When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouthö Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in Kharki ordered South?

—Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

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