Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
bongo . - noun music A pair of small
drums of Cuban origin, played bybeating with thehands .
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Examples
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I would be careful about calling people "bongos" if i was you, especially since you fluctuate between two personalities.
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I would be careful about calling people "bongos" if i was you, especially since you fluctuate between two personalities.
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Replace your crystal with a kazoo, trade in your feather for a pair of bongos, and substitute a CD of soulful music for a religious book.
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When you find yourself stuck watching one of the less-compelling interviews, the film can drag a bit -- and the soundtrack doesn't help as it makes you feel like you're trapped in the bohemian coffee shop from hell, with Maynard G. Krebs working the bongos.
Sundance Review: ‘Brief Interviews With Hideous Men’ » MTV Movies Blog
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But listening to it now for the first time, I hear bongos, a trap set, electric guitars, a simplistic musical and textual structure, a rock-beat meter, and familiar rock riffs throughout, along with an ego completely unleashed from all decorum and discipline.
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His Carmen Suite (1967), written for the Cuban National Ballet with his ballerina wife in the title role, douses Bizet's score in a sugar water of bongos, vibraphone and other, often witty, percussive invention.
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Horn, cello and clarinet – the RPO element – wove improvised lines around the melody, with various guitars, keyboards, vibes, bongos and drum kit adding according to skill and instruction.
Belshazzar's Feast; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Christmas project – review
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Busking in Brussels was futile, me screaming and you on the bongos, all you'd accept from your father, before he returned to New York.
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No, you don't need to bring your bongos, I think we have that covered.
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One of the worst game ideas ever was embodied in Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, which is a platform game you control with a pair of cheap electric bongos.
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