Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A bell hung from a collar around a cow's neck.
Wiktionary
- n. A bell worn by cows; sometimes with an ornate strap.
- n. music A musical instrument, typically found without a clapper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located
Etymologies
- cow + bell (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A failure to enact health-care reform would be one thing, but the people simply will not stand for it if a promised increase in cowbell goes unrealized.”
“I will have to wait til I can play it out and hear how it all sounds loud. but yes, the cowbell is very nice and that tidy little guitar lick ... cheers a”
“The sunset lingered in golden glory over the distant Mexican mountains; twilight came slowly; a faint breeze blew from the river cool and sweet; the late cooing of a dove and the tinkle of a cowbell were the only sounds; a serene and tranquil peace lay over the valley.”
“Well, the man with the cowbell is her husband, and they are the most musical friends that we have.”
“More Cowbell applications that let you tap along or shake your iphone "cowbell" to add that special something to any music you listen to.”
“Nothing in the show was LOL funny, and the Ting Tings were annoying, especially that "cowbell" remark near the end of the last song.”
“The new "cowbell" sound actually sounds like someone hitting a mallet against a fire bell instead of a cow bell.”
“Obama's advisers think the answer to every problem is more cowbell, if by "cowbell" you mean”
“Aside from replace, there are also the insert and delete operations, so the distance between "cowbell" and "crowbar" is four (insert 'r', replace 'e' with 'a', replace 'l' with 'r', delete 'l').”
“Complete with random cowbell hits. ♫ blip. fm/~1xfp7 #”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cowbell’.
-
Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
-
Bells and Whistles
Liberty Bell, Belle and Sebastian, Whistler's Mother, whistle stop, pennywhistle, whistle pig, wolf whistle, wet your whistle, barbell, bell jar, Bell's palsy, bell pepper and 138 more...
-
Mountain Biking
Words that relate to bicycling or mountain biking
crank, podium, attack position, bonk, rock garden, babyheads, bunny hop, chain, chainring, clipless, freeride, slicks and 204 more...
-
MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
-
Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
props, frass, narwhal, preggers, mu, hype, heterotopia, sans serif, cow orker, snicker-snack, modality road, boolean poetry and 77 more...
-
bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
-
AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
-
Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
-
Percussion
Percussion instruments, excluding stringed ones such as piano, with drums, gongs, and bells tagged. Only mononyms are listed, so hi-hat and tom-tom are out. A gamelan is an assemblage of percussion...
drum, gong, bell, chime, cymbal, triangle, castanet, xylophone, glockenspiel, maraca, marimba, tambourine and 78 more...
-
Musical Instruments
Collect them all!
dulcimer, french horn, didgeridoo, zither, tympani, djembe, xylophone, vibraphone, singing bowl, bagpipes, banjo, guitar and 66 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cowbell.
abraxaszugzwang I gotta have more cowbell! Feb 12, 2007
seanahan Probably the most popular SNL sketch of the decade. Feb 7, 2007
uselessness I got a fever! And the only prescription... is more cowbell! Feb 7, 2007
jennarenn I think we need a little more.... Feb 7, 2007