electric guitar

American  

noun

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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Etymology

Origin of electric guitar

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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

Thudding drums, an electric guitar that chugs like a tank’s engine turning over and blaring trumpet fanfare announce the onset of football on CBS, Fox and NBC.

From Salon

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

From BBC

A sparkly pink electric guitar hangs on a wall of the recording studio where Hilary Duff made her new album.

From Los Angeles Times

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