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- noun Plural form of
twang . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
twang .
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Examples
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His companion stumbles and twangs over my dented guitar, asks how much and I say, depends… do you play?
30x30 Paul de Denus 2011
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Oh, and check out Ronnie Wood's mad Absolute Classic Rock show, too, where he twangs guitar and sounds a lot more coherent than Keef.
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Oh, and check out Ronnie Wood's mad Absolute Classic Rock show, too, where he twangs guitar and sounds a lot more coherent than Keef.
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There are no twangs, no flat vowels, no verbal tics that give away his origin.
Same Game, Different Language Joshua Robinson 2011
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The one truly disappointing thing about Born to Die isn't the sound, which understandably sticks fast to the appealing blueprint from Video Games and Blue Jeans: sumptuous orchestration, twangs of Twin Peaks-theme guitar and bum-bum-TISH drums.
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His vocal has been compared to Sting – he's got that raspy thing going on – but overall it's gentle electropop: lots of bleeps and twangs and careful xylophones.
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They ransack everything from 1960s handclaps to 1950s-style twangs.
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Of course, both bagels and pizza are part of my dietary past, which may be a large part of the nostalgia twangs.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008
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Today the island is full of coloured people with Irish surnames speaking with Irish twangs.
A restricted homecoming? O'Neill 2008
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All you do is watch the video clips of non native English speakers reciting lines from poems, then guess which country they are from based on their strangely accented twangs.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Fun with foreign accents… 2008
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