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garage band

British  

noun

  1. a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of garage band

perhaps from the practice of such bands rehearsing in a garage

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By the end of his freshman year, he had enough original songs to record an album with two of his baseball teammates in their three-man garage band.

From Seattle Times Sep. 2, 2023

Welcome to the Hollywood Hills’ quietest garage band session and the inaugural meeting of the Los Angeles Conducting Co-op, where instruments lie dormant on some nights, and the music is all in your head.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 11, 2023

“It was the G7 that was the core of the H.I.V. response, and in some ways this is getting that same garage band back together,” Mr. Morrison said.

From New York Times May 12, 2022

You could work to enhance your education, set an ambitious health or fitness goal, start a garage band or read a book a week.

From Washington Post Apr. 18, 2022

I realized it was the garage band Bongo liked.

From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate

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