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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 ground
Familiarity information: LAGERPHONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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