CONCERTINA

Concertina

A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. More distantly related, but still in the same family, are the harmonium and American reed organ .

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concertina

Noun

  1. A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
  2. Something resembling a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
  3. Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
  4. A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.

Verb

  1. to become compressed into a shape reminiscent of a concertina
    The car concertinaed into the wall.
  2. to be drawn closer and farther apart repeatedly, or up and down, as if situated on a working concertina's folds


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