/ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/, /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/
OriginFrom Spanish bongo.
- A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
- Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
“He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.”
- plural, plural-onlyAn ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.
- plural, plural-onlyAn agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.
- intransitiveTo play the bongo drums.
- intransitiveOf the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
- transitiveTo hit something rhythmically with the hands.
- A Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.
- A gewog of Chhukha District, Bhutan.
Formsbongos(plural) · bongoes(plural) · bongos(present, singular, third-person) · bongoing(participle, present) · bongoed(participle, past) · bongoed(past)