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TRIPLE-TONGUE
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Play fast notes on a wind instrument
Synonyms:
double tongue; triple-tongue
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "triple-tongue" is one way to...):
tongue (articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments)
Domain category:
music (musical activity (singing or whistling etc.))
music ((music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something