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LAGERPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lagerphone mean? 

LAGERPHONE (noun)
  The noun LAGERPHONE has 1 sense:

1. an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the groundplay

  Familiarity information: LAGERPHONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAGERPHONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lagerphone" is a kind of...):

percussion instrument; percussive instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another)

Domain region:

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)


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