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  • noun Plural form of bongo.
  • noun music A pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

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Examples

  • I would be careful about calling people "bongos" if i was you, especially since you fluctuate between two personalities.

    THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY 2009

  • I would be careful about calling people "bongos" if i was you, especially since you fluctuate between two personalities.

    THIS IS NOT MY COUNTRY 2009

  • 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.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • 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 2009

  • 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.

    Bridge Building and Sacred Music 2009

  • 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.

    Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Gergiev Fiona Maddocks 2010

  • 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 2011

  • 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.

    Temporary Passport Penny Goring 2011

  • No, you don't need to bring your bongos, I think we have that covered.

    John R. Talbott: Why You Must March on Thursday John R. Talbott 2011

  • 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.

    Boing Boing 2009

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