steel band

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   a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands)

   Broaderdance band

Questions about steel band

What does steel band mean?

steel band means "a band that plays instruments made from the heads of oil drums (Caribbean Islands)".

Is steel band a common word?

steel 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.