kazoo

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The guiatr sounds like a kazoo, the bass sounds like a drunk guy moaning, the singer sounds like a whiny girl, and the drummer sounds like a lazy oaf poudning on the wall!!

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  1. noun A toy musical instrument with a membrane that produces a buzzing sound when a player hums or sings into the mouthpiece.

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  • Rojas took it, rolled it tight as a cigarette, then blew through it, making it sound like a kazoo. —  Lippman, Laura - [Tess Monaghan 04] - In Big Trouble
  • When I stared humming through the kazoo, both Tyque and Zane got real still, and their faces scrunched up like they were trying to decide something inside their heads. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
  • I made Mama tell me by playing "Say Me Everything" on the kazoo, and then I played "Forget I Played Music" to her. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
  • I have to bury her at my towers He lifted his pipe and started playing; I raised the kazoo, but waited. —  F ;SF; - vol 088 issue 04 - April 1995
  • When I grew tired of talking to these witnesses who'd been played like a kazoo by the Detective Bureau, I had a Coke and a grilled cheese at the drugstore on the corner of Austin Boulevard and Division. —  EQMM,June2008
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  1. Perhaps imitative of its sound.

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  1. apparently a made word.
 

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