squeeze box

Questions about squeeze box

What does squeeze box mean?

squeeze box means "a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player".

What is another word for squeeze box?

Close synonyms include accordion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is squeeze box a common word?

squeeze box 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.