Crossword clues for bongo
bongo
- Type of drum played with the hands
- Drummer's antelope?
- Hollow ringing sound found with old drum
- Drum and pipe given to leader of Orangemen
- Drum and bass performing with oomph
- Kind of drum
- Drum type
- Hand-played drum
- Hand drum
- Cuban drum
- Beatnik's instrument
- Salsa instrument
- Drum for a beatnik
- Beatnik drum
- Type of membranophone
- Type of drum — central African antelope
- Salsa drum
- One might be beaten along with beat poetry
- Old coffeehouse drum
- Hand-struck drum
- Half a drum pair
- Drum-circle standby
- Drum that's played with the hands
- Drum in drum circles
- Drum held between the knees
- Drum heard around a fire
- Drum at a poetry slam
- Beatniks beat it
- It's hit on the head
- Beat it!
- Beatnik's drum
- Drum played with the hands
- Beat poetry accompaniment
- A beatnik beats it
- A beatnik may beat it
- Drum played without sticks
- What a beatnik beats
- One beaten by a beatnik
- It's not played with sticks
- Beatnik's percussion
- Part of a Cuban combo
- Played with the hands
- Large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns
- A small drum
- W. African antelope
- African antelope
- Drum or antelope
- Small drum or large antelope
- Drum, dance, tree or antelope
- Tuned drum
- Large antelope
- One of a pair of drums
- Cuban's drum
- Antelope or drum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920, from American Spanish (West Indies, especially Cuba), from a word of West African origin, such as Lokele (Zaire) boungu.
Wiktionary
n. A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, ''Tragelaphus eurycerus''. vb. 1 To play the bongo 2 (context Of, e.g. a heart English) To beat with an irregular rhythm 3 To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
WordNet
n. a small drum; played with the hands [syn: bongo drum]
large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns [syn: Tragelaphus eurycerus, Boocercus eurycerus]
[also: bongoes (pl)]
Wikipedia
The bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) is a herbivorous, mostly nocturnal forest ungulate. It is among the largest of the African forest antelope species.
Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes and long slightly spiralled horns. Indeed, bongos are the only tragelaphid in which both sexes have horns. They have a complex social interaction and are found in African dense forest mosaics.
The western or lowland bongo, T. e. eurycerus, faces an ongoing population decline, and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers it to be Near Threatened on the conservation status scale.
The eastern or' mountain bongo', T. e. isaaci, of Kenya, has a coat even more vibrant than that of T. e. eurycerus. The mountain bongo is only found in the wild in one remote region of central Kenya. This bongo is classified by the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group as Critically Endangered, with more specimens in captivity than in the wild.
In 2000, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums in the USA (AZA) upgraded the bongo to a Species Survival Plan participant and in 2006 added the Bongo Restoration to Mount Kenya Project to its list of the Top Ten Wildlife Conservation Success Stories of the year. However, in 2013, it seems, these successes have been negated with reports of possibly only 100 mountain bongos left in the wild due to logging and poaching.
The term bongo may refer to:
Bongo is one of the constituencies represented in the Parliament of Ghana. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Bongo is located in the Bongo district of the Upper East Region of Ghana.
Bongo is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Omar Bongo (1935–2009), former president of Gabon
- Ali Bongo Ondimba (born 1959), current president of Gabon and son of Omar Bongo
- Ali Bongo (1929–2009), British comedy magician
- Freddy Brooks Bongó (born 1969), Cuban Olympic volleyball player
- Bongo Herman, Jamaican percussionist and singer, active early 1960s
Bongo is an Australian television series for which little information is available. Hosted by Russell Stubbings, it was a music show aimed at teenagers. It ran from 18 August 1960 to 17 November of the same year. It was a half-hour series, aired on Melbourne station GTV-9 (Australian television was not fully networked at the time). The series was preceded on the schedule by Gerry Gee's Happy Show and followed by the evening news. An issue of The Age newspaper features a picture of Stubbings and lists the series as being live.
Usage examples of "bongo".
Garden, the door becomes unfastened, and the first thing anybody knows, out pops Bongo, and goes bouncing along the street where a lot of the neighbors?
Bongo do but reach into a baby buggy which a Mama is pushing past on the sidewalk on the Garden side of the street, and snatch out a baby, though what Bongo wants with this baby nobody knows to this day.
It is a very young baby, and not such a baby as is fit to give a gorilla the size of Bongo any kind of struggle, so Bongo has no trouble whatever in handling it.
Mama puts up quite a squawk about Bongo grabbing her baby, because no Mama wishes her baby to keep company with a gorilla, and this Mama starts in screaming very loud, and trying to take the baby away from Bongo, so what does Bongo do but run right up on the roof of the Garden by way of a big electric sign which hangs down on the Forty-ninth Street side.
And there old Bongo sits on the edge of the roof with the baby in his arms, and the baby is squalling quite some, and Bongo is making funny noises, and showing his teeth as the folks commence gathering in the street below.
I figure this guy has something to do with the circus, and maybe with Bongo, too.
Let us get a life net, and if you all keep quiet we may be able to save the baby before Bongo starts heaving it like a coconut.
Bongo is sitting up there on the edge of the roof about seven stories above the ground peeking down with the baby in his arms, and he is holding this baby just like a Mama would, but anybody can see that Bongo does not care for the row below, and once he lifts the baby high above his head as if to bean somebody with it.
In the room the bongo drummer went screaming through the wall of flame.
There were microphones and a Revox A77 tape recorder which Paul used to produce a long-drawn-out echo that made even the stoned bongo playing of his non-musician friends sound terrific.
The bongos and the base started their beat, were joined by a single clarinet and out of the wings came the redhead.
With its accumulation of bongos, drums, guitars and other instruments, it became one of the main hanging-out rooms in the house.
Even those pitchy clots of young bloods you used to see playing bongos back in alleyways had been cleared up.
Onstage was a trio of African musicians, an organist, xylophonist, and bongo player, billed as the Kenya Orchestra Vandals.
And they listened to the Cantata for Bongo in A Minor with all eighty-eight tones clear and deep from the clava drum that only Deutcher 4 could play.