from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A toy musical instrument with a membrane that produces a buzzing sound when a player hums or sings into the mouthpiece.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. a simple musical instrument consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.
- v. to play the kazoo.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string or membrane made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A so-called musical instrument or toy, consisting of a wooden tube of peculiar shape, containing a vibrating strip of catgut.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
*Takes a kazoo an marches in a circle blowin kazoo* Woot, woot, woot.
Â The most common kazoo is the Soprano kazoo, which is the most noticeable form of the instrument.
If Palin can have a policy “maestro” then a five-year-old with a kazoo is an orchestra.
Â The kazoo is classified as a âmirlitonâ â or vibrating membrane instrument (bet they didnât teach you that in high school band).
And though a kazoo is what it most often brings to mind, it also variously evokes a congested saxophone, wind in a bottle and echoes from a crypt.
More fun to play than to listen to, the kazoo is the simple inbred cousin of the harmonica.
The neat thing about the kazoo is the more kazoos, the better it sounds.
The origin of the name "kazoo," however, is unclear.
As far as my own creations … I'm pretty sure there is no 'kazoo' instrument, so I'm out.
"You fools think the kazoo is a subversive instrument?