Kazoo
noun
A small, simple musical instrument that you play by humming into it, creating a buzzing sound.
He played a cheerful tune on his kazoo.
Often appears as...
- play the kazoo
- hum into a kazoo
noun
A small, simple musical instrument that you play by humming into it, creating a buzzing sound.
He played a cheerful tune on his kazoo.
Often appears as...
- play the kazoo
- hum into a kazoo
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Pro Tip 1/3Informal
The kazoo is a casual instrument often associated with children and informal gatherings.
At the picnic, everyone laughed as I tried playing a song on the kazoo.
Pro Tip 2/3Easy to Play
No musical skills are required to play the kazoo, making it accessible to everyone.
I can't play the guitar, but give me a kazoo and I'll make it work.
Pro Tip 3/3Novelty Sound
A kazoo adds a unique, comical buzzing sound to music, often used for fun effect.
The band's kazoo solo added a whimsical touch to their performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal
The kazoo is a casual instrument often associated with children and informal gatherings.
At the picnic, everyone laughed as I tried playing a song on the kazoo.
Pro Tip 2/3Easy to Play
No musical skills are required to play the kazoo, making it accessible to everyone.
I can't play the guitar, but give me a kazoo and I'll make it work.
Pro Tip 3/3Novelty Sound
A kazoo adds a unique, comical buzzing sound to music, often used for fun effect.
The band's kazoo solo added a whimsical touch to their performance.
Pro Tip 1/3Informal
The kazoo is a casual instrument often associated with children and informal gatherings.
At the picnic, everyone laughed as I tried playing a song on the kazoo.
Pro Tip 2/3Easy to Play
No musical skills are required to play the kazoo, making it accessible to everyone.
I can't play the guitar, but give me a kazoo and I'll make it work.
Pro Tip 3/3Novelty Sound
A kazoo adds a unique, comical buzzing sound to music, often used for fun effect.
The band's kazoo solo added a whimsical touch to their performance.
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How Benjamin Button got...
and Rick's one of the great makeup and special effects viewers of our industry and and we also brought in a gentleman named kazoo soo-ji and cause of soo-ji is one of the great photo real sculptors of our time and we commissioned them to make a maquette or a bust of a Benjamin and so in the spirit of the great unveiling I had to do this I had to I
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How Benjamin Button got...
and Rick's one of the great makeup and special effects viewers of our industry and and we also brought in a gentleman named kazoo soo-ji and cause of soo-ji is one of the great photo real sculptors of our time and we commissioned them to make a maquette or a bust of a Benjamin and so in the spirit of the great unveiling I had to do this I had to I
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Aaron Sorkin
American Screenwriter
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Jim Pattison
Canadian Businessman
My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
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Amy Poehler
American Comedian
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
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Bria Skonberg
Canadian Musician
There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
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Orson Bean
American Actor
Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.
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Bette Davis
American Actress
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
Quote examples
Aaron Sorkin
American Screenwriter
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
Quote examples
Jim Pattison
Canadian Businessman
My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.
Quote examples
Amy Poehler
American Comedian
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
Quote examples
Bria Skonberg
Canadian Musician
There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
Quote examples
Orson Bean
American Actor
Being a good game show panelist is like being a virtuoso of the kazoo.
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Bette Davis
American Actress
That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.
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