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electric guitar

noun

  1. a guitar equipped with electric or magnetic pickups that permit its sound to be amplified and fed to a loudspeaker.



electric guitar

noun

  1. an electronically amplified guitar, used mainly in pop music Compare acoustic guitar

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of electric guitar1

First recorded in 1935–40
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For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ongoing M72 world tour.

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Slipshod electric guitars spin like a lazy kite around strident acoustic guitars and a buoyant rhythm section.

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The song opens with a gently plucked electric guitar, as Nemo dives down to the lower end of their vocal register to divulge an existential crisis.

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There he was, alone on the stage, belting out falsetto notes in his spangly jumpsuit, when suddenly, an electric guitar appeared out of thin air and landed in his hands.

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And when he does play electric guitar, the hair on the back of your neck will stand up from the menace of its tone.

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