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  • noun Plural form of bander.

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Examples

  • Many significant artists are represented, from Scott Joplin and Louis Armstrong to the beboppers, the big banders, the experimentalists and the jazz rockers in a politically correct formulation: the list is racially diverse and features a woman instrumentalist—Mary Lou Williams.

    Anthology by Committee Stuart Isacoff 2011

  • Now, it's evolved so far beyond The Dead that most Deadheads wouldn't even recognize the brown acid and glass bongs that these jam banders are sporting.

    Mike Gellman: Jammin' on the One Mike Gellman 2010

  • We banders have gathered early in the morning and unfurled the eight mist nets down by the lake, which is really a reservoir; my drinking water sits here like oil in a basin.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • While I have been swooning over the reed warbler, the banders alongside me have already dealt with three or four birds.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • The banders greet an adult willow warbler taken from a bag.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • You are, therefore, to watch every attempt which is made, or inclination displayed, to open any communication with any of the lords who have become banders in the west — with Hamilton, Seyton, with Fleming, or the like.

    The Abbot 2008

  • That hurt feeling and backlash from the 10p tax band group is only what 22p/40p tax banders have been feeling for 5-6 years or so.

    Tory Triumphalism: They Just Don't Get It Do They? 2008

  • It is often quite guttergloomering in our duol and gives wankyrious thoughts to the head but the banders of the pentapolitan poleetsfurcers bassoons into it on windy woodensdays their wellbooming wolvertones.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Well, I'm still holding you personally responsible for the appearance of the nine banders spotted in the Metropolis, IL area.

    Texas: No Longer the Home of the Armadillo Bill Crider 2006

  • But working before dawn also exposes the banders to the crepuscular flies that carry Leishmaniasis.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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