concertina

Meaning of 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

Information about concertina

Hyphenation of concertina

con-certina

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • concertina is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of concertina

Words that rhyme with concertina

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