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SQUEEZE BOX
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
Synonyms:
accordion; squeeze box
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("squeeze box" is a kind of...):
free-reed instrument (a wind instrument with a free reed)
keyboard instrument (a musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard)
Meronyms (parts of "squeeze box"):
clavier; fingerboard; piano keyboard (a bank of keys on a musical instrument)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squeeze box"):
piano accordion (an accordion with a right-hand keyboard)
button accordion (an accordion with buttons rather than keys)
