Citations:banjo

English citations of banjo

noun: musical instrument

• 1973, BMG; Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar (D. K. Keogh), page 32:

  [the] album of bluegrass and old-time music features the friends and relations of demon banjo picker Andy Smith of Coventry, with his famous square banjo, assisted by John Field Esq., present here in his fiddle- and mandolin- playing capacities.

• 2017, Bartle Bull, A Café on the Nile (→ISBN)

  [He played] single string of a square banjo with an arched horsehair bow. A blind boy of nine or ten squatted beside the man, accompanying the minstrel on a short wooden flute.

verb

• 1949, Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Nation's Business, page 78:

  Informed of this, Caton's eyes banjoed bigger than ever.

• 2003, M. F. Korn, All the Mutant Trash in All the Galaxies: Four Novels, page 343:

  "Whoop, ohhhh," he said in ecstasy, as the men's eyes banjoed open wide as saucers, licking their filthy lips.