electric guitar

American  

noun

electric guitars plural

1. a guitar equipped with electric or magnetic pickups that permit its sound to be amplified and fed to a loudspeaker.

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electric guitar British  

noun

1. an electronically amplified guitar, used mainly in pop music Compare acoustic guitar

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• electric guitars
  plural

Etymology

Origin of electric guitar

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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electric guitar

Together, amid recorded bursts of electric guitar, they kinetically update these rival combatants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The dynamic singer delivered every lyric with his whole body as he frenetically tapped the buttons of his brightly colored accordion, doing his best to make the squeezebox sound like an electric guitar.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

She sang traditional gospel songs with contemporary jazz tempos that she played on her electric guitar.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

In 1951, Leo Fender, a California designer and manufacturer of musical instruments, built and sold the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar, the Telecaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I’d gone and chosen the cello.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman