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

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. TROMBONE: Band Terms
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Trombone: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  5. Trombone: Classical Music Guide

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Trombone, trombone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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

(Note: See trombones as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
noun:  The common European bittern.
noun:  (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
verb:  (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
verb:  (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.

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