Meaning

1 senses

  1. An imaginary guitar that a listener to (usually rock) music pretends to play.

    I was embarrassed when my girlfriend walked in on my friends and me playing air guitar.

    Luftgitarre

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Tom doesn't play a real instrument, but he does play a mean air guitar.

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  2. He spent hours perfecting his air guitar skills.

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Translations

3 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
imaginary guitar that a person pretends to play:

Forms

plural: air guitars
Singularair guitar
Pluralair guitars

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedshadow boxing
Derivedair guitarist

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
aimB2aimlesslyC1airA2airbagairborneaircraftB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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