Usually means: African drum played with hands.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bongo: Merriam-Webster
  2. bongo, bongo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bongo, bongo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bongo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bongo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bongo, bongo: Wordnik
  7. bongo (drum): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bongo: Wiktionary
  9. bongo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bongo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bongo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bongo, bongo: Dictionary.com
  13. bongo: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bongo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bongo (Ghana parliament constituency), Bongo (Indian TV series), Bongo (animal), Bongo (antelope), Bongo (disambiguation), Bongo (software), Bongo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. bongo: Rhymezone
  17. bongo: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. bongo: FreeDictionary.org
  19. bongo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. bongo: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bongo (clown), bongo: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bongo: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BONGO: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bongo, bongo, bongo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bongo, bongo: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bongo: Sports Definitions

(Note: See bongoes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Bongo)

noun:  A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
noun:  Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
verb:  (intransitive) To play the bongo drums.
verb:  (intransitive) Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
verb:  (transitive) To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
noun:  A Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.
noun:  An ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.
noun:  An agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.

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