marching band

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   a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time

   Broaderband

Questions about marching band

What does marching band mean?

marching band means "a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time".

Is marching band a common word?

marching band is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.