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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electric guitar consisting of a long fretted neck and six to eight steel strings that are plucked while being pressed with a movable steel bar.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect
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