garage band

noun

1. a rough-and-ready amateurish rock group

Word History and Origins

Origin of garage band¹

perhaps from the practice of such bands rehearsing in a garage

Example Sentences

“We were quite literally a garage band one minute, and then we were playing on the MTV Video Music Awards and David Letterman and whatever else the next minute.”

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Meanwhile, Craig swoons over Austin, a local weatherman whose hang-out ideas — mushroom harvesting, urban spelunking, starting a punk rock garage band — give Craig genuine joy.

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“I know it sounds like a garage band,” quips Bolton, “but it’s a specific sound that silk makes.”

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After all, these aren’t teenagers playing in a garage band after school.

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When Norton expressed interest in Weiss as a contemporary artist, not a nostalgia act, she agreed to record a new album with the support of Memphis garage band the Reigning Sound.

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