Definition of "washboards" [washboards]

• Plural form of washboard. (noun)

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• "Country music is characterized by the fiddle, which is European in nature, the banjo, which was developed by African-Americans, and various improvised percussion which mostly was just what was had on hand in the homes of folk musicians, such as washboards and glass bottles, along with guitars, drumsets, string basses, and other such members of the jazz ensemble."
• "The main course, musically, will be the Hot Sardines jazz band, a plucky two-beat outfit of younger traditional players featuring washboards and tap-dancers."
• "There is also some in the forest service and government who see the $$ opportunities here by having the road obliteration projects and less money spent on road maintenance so they can fatten other parts of the budget that are better for careers and politics than grading washboards and cleaning culverts ...."