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slide guitar

American  

noun

  1. bottleneck.


slide guitar British  

noun

  1. a technique of guitar playing derived from bottleneck, using a steel or glass tube on one finger across the frets

"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 slide guitar

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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"Take off all that armour / You can't carry all that weight," he sings over a delicate slide guitar.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

“John Sinclair” gains an extended outro with a slide guitar solo that Lennon had previously faded.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Nollman mainly plays slide guitar for whale species, but has worked with a wide range of other musicians, including a grammy-winning oboe player, violinists, percussionists, a chanting Tibetian lama and more.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

That attention has grown steadily since 2013, when Webster, then 16, self-released her debut album, “Run and Tell,” a folksy whirl of slide guitar and twang.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024

As Wynn’s Chevy lurched to a stop, he pushed a few buttons and a slide guitar intro began for what I could only guess was Brent Chisholm’s duet with Momma.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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