Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trombone with a slide instead of keys. See
trombone .
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Examples
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There's a man down there you'll likely meet: Charly Stone, playing his slide-trombone
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Both of them put together would hardly make a full-sized warrior, and both play the slide-trombone in the band.
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A third complained that on Sunday afternoons the old man sat on his front porch and played Die Wacht am Rhein on a slide-trombone, to the great annoyance of his neighbours.
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It is supposed to say chug-chug a couple of times impatiently, and then go scooting away, chug-chugging like an inspired slide-trombone.
Cobb's Bill-of-Fare Peter Newell 1910
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A third complained that on Sunday afternoons the old man sat on his front porch and played Die Wacht am Rhein on a slide-trombone, to the great annoyance of his neighbours.
One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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The slide-trombone is a joy alone, and the drummer!
A Book for Kids 1907
hernesheir commented on the word slide-trombone
Called a "slush pump" by a band mate.
December 9, 2010