jug band

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noun

a small group of performers who play chiefly blues or folk music on makeshift or very simple instruments, as washboards, harmonicas, kazoos, and empty jugs, the latter being played by blowing across the openings.

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Origin of jug band

An Americanism dating back to 1930–35

Words nearby jug band

jugal, jugal bone, jugale, jugal furrow, jugate, jug band, Jugendstil, jugful, jugged hare, Juggernaut, juggins

How to use jug band in a sentence

He plays an aging punk rocker and I play the drummer from his old band.
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The band turned back around, raising a lively tune to signal life would go on.
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The band was still on its way back as De Blasio and his wife departed.
Funeral Protest Is Too Much for NYPD Union Boss|Michael Daly|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.
Deer Tick's John McCauley on Ten Years in Rock and Roll|James Joiner|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Every other band I had been in had been pretty loud, you could never hear the vocals.
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His little band was almost immediately surrounded by the enemy.
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Conny stepped smilingly forward, and proceeded to affix the band around the vicar's massive throat.
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Roulard had played the trumpet in the regimental band in which Aristide had played the kettle drum.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
There was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.
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On this the royal band of music would strike up its liveliest airs, and a great bell would toll its evening warning.
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British Dictionary definitions for jug band

jug band

noun

a small group playing folk or jazz music, using empty jugs that are played by blowing across their openings to produce bass notes

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