slide guitar

noun

bottleneck (def. 3).

Origin of slide guitar

First recorded in 1965–70

Words Nearby slide guitar

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How to use slide guitar in a sentence

Even its most downcast song — his take on the Delta Blues of Louie Lasky’s “How You Want Your Rollin’ Done” — grooves with slide guitar and stomping drums.
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British Dictionary definitions for slide guitar

slide guitar

noun

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

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