Usually means: Folding, musical instrument with bellows.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. concertina: Merriam-Webster
  2. concertina: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. concertina: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. concertina: Collins English Dictionary
  5. concertina: Vocabulary.com
  6. Concertina, concertina: Wordnik
  7. concertina: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Concertina: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. concertina: Wiktionary
  10. concertina: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. concertina: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. concertina: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Concertina, concertina: Dictionary.com
  14. concertina: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Concertina (song), Concertina: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Concertina: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. concertina: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. concertina: Rhymezone
  19. Concertina: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. concertina: FreeDictionary.org
  21. concertina: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. concertina: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. concertina: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concertina: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. concertina, concertina: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See concertinaing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
noun:  Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
noun:  Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
noun:  A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
verb:  To become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina.
verb:  To be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds.

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