steel guitar

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   guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect

   SynonymsHawaiian guitar

   Broaderguitar

Questions about steel guitar

What does steel guitar mean?

steel guitar means "guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect".

What is another word for steel guitar?

Close synonyms include Hawaiian guitar. 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 steel guitar a common word?

steel guitar 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.