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- noun music A variant of
ukulele .
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Examples
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Colorful ecstasy mimic tablets and cocaine in a "ukelele" - Boing ...
Boing Boing 2009
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I thought the ukelele was always played really slow.
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The December 2008 edition of the newsletter has photos of colorful ecstasy mimic tablets (above) along with photos of cocaine being smuggled in an "ukelele" (sic), which doesn't seem to be a ukulele.
Boing Boing 2009
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Colorful ecstasy mimic tablets and cocaine in a "ukelele"
Boing Boing 2009
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The recent college graduate happened to come across American music educator Mike Lynch's ukelele instructional videos on the internet and was hooked.
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The recent college graduate happened to come across American music educator Mike Lynch's ukelele instructional videos on the internet and was hooked.
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"E meu ru ru a vau," it ran, and that was all of it, sung in a stately, endless, ever-varying chant, accompanied by solemn chords from the ukelele.
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Beyond Tiny Tim, this was the only other ukelele player I knew of: datingjesus
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Xylocopa's "The Complete Ukulele Guide to the Moustaches of the World" is a ukelele sporting diagrams showing the world's 25 major mustache groups.
Boing Boing 2009
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Still to come: The US trade deficit has grown due to Chinese imports; BP apologizer Rep. Joe Barton may yet helm the Energy Committee; the schools of the much-touted Harlem Children's Zone are coming up short; and a ukelele orchestra covers Talking Heads.
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oroboros commented on the word ukelele
Here is a wonderful ukelele demonstration...
April 11, 2007
uselessness commented on the word ukelele
Absolutely is. I saw this a couple years ago and it blew my mind. Still does. I think the more accepted spelling is ukulele though.
April 11, 2007
Danni commented on the word ukelele
It's a musical instrument like a mini guitar. Makes me think of George Formby 'cleanin winders'
July 3, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word ukelele
a double -le suffix?
September 21, 2011