Usually means: Percussive instruments producing resonant sounds.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. gongs: Merriam-Webster
  2. gongs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gongs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gong's, Gongs, gongs: Wordnik
  5. gongs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gongs: Wiktionary
  7. gongs: Dictionary.com
  8. gongs: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Gongs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. gongs: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gongs: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gongs: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gongs: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Gong)

noun:  (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
noun:  (British, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor..
noun:  A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
verb:  (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
verb:  (transitive) To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
verb:  To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
verb:  To warn.
verb:  (British, slang, transitive) To give an award or medal to.
noun:  (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
noun:  (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
noun:  (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
noun:  (uncountable) An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
noun:  (New South Wales, colloquial) Wollongong.
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