Usually means: Brass instrument with sliding mechanism.
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  1. trombones: Merriam-Webster
  2. trombones: Collins English Dictionary
  3. trombones: Vocabulary.com
  4. Trombones, trombones: Wordnik
  5. trombones: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. trombones: Wiktionary
  7. trombones: Dictionary.com
  8. Trombones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Trombones: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See trombone as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (trombone)

noun:  A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
noun:  The common European bittern.
noun:  (film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
verb:  (telecommunications) To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
verb:  (film, slang, transitive) To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
▸ Also see trombone


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