jug band

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   a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments

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Questions about jug band

What does jug band mean?

jug band means "a musical group that uses jugs and washboards and kazoos and other improvised instruments".

Is jug band a common word?

jug band is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.