BONGO Synonyms

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

• something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares

• a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head

• a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities

• strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit

• a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose

• catch in or as if in a trap

• entice and trap

• a shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

• A pair of tuned hand drums, used in various musical genres of the Indian subcontinent, that are similar to bongos.

• individual serving of minced e.g. meat or fish in a rich creamy sauce baked in a small pastry mold or timbale shell

• small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods

• a small drum; played with the hands

• large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns

• large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns