electric guitar
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of electric guitar
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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Emboldened by a recent European court ruling, Fender is trying to gain control over what is by far the world’s most popular electric guitar shape more than seven decades after it was released.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
The company likens the approach to an electric guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
He joined Fleetwood Mac in the 1990s for their 16th studio album, Time, and toured with them, before later starting a sustainable electric guitar company with industrial designer Ravi Sawhney in 2004.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
She’s 16, and by now she knows how to issue perfect sound bites: “I think every citizen should be given an electric guitar on her sixteenth birthday.”
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2026
My dad, who only had on his sock monkey pajama bottoms, turned on his electric guitar and made this earsplitting screechy sound to scare off the raccoon.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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