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VIBES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vibes mean?
• VIBES (noun)
The noun VIBES has 1 sense:
1. a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
Familiarity information: VIBES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
vibes; vibraharp; vibraphone
Hypernyms ("vibes" is a kind of...):
percussion instrument; percussive instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another)
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