Crossword-Solution: BONGO 5 letters, 99 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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BONGO anagram BOONG

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Central African antelope 1 answer
Hand-struck drum 1 answer
Drummer's antelope? 1 answer
Drum-circle standby 1 answer
Antelope or drum 1 answer
FOREST antelope 1 answer
Beat poetry accompaniment 1 answer
Beat-era percussion 1 answer
Beatnik drum 1 answer
Beatnik's beat source 1 answer
Beatnik's drum 1 answer
Beatnik's instrument 1 answer
Beatniks beat it 1 answer
What a beatnik may beat 1 answer
Coffee house instrument 1 answer
Cuban's drum 1 answer
Drum at a poetry slam 1 answer
Drum for a beatnik 1 answer
Drum heard around a fire 1 answer
Drum heard round the fire 1 answer
Drum held between the knees 1 answer
Drum in drum circles 1 answer
Drum or antelope 1 answer
Drum played without sticks 1 answer
Drum used in son cubano music 1 answer
Drum, dance, tree or antelope 1 answer
Tuned drum 1 answer
Salsa drum 1 answer
Salsa component, often 1 answer
Rare spiral-horned antelope of Central African forests 1 answer
Part of a Cuban combo 1 answer
Salsa instrument 1 answer
Small drum or large antelope 1 answer
Small drum played with one's hands 1 answer
Tom-tom's kin 1 answer
One of a pair of connected drums 1 answer
One of a drum pair 1 answer
One might be beaten along with beat poetry 1 answer
One beaten by a beatnik 1 answer
Old coffeehouse drum 1 answer
Latin American drum pairs 1 answer
Type of drum played with the hands 1 answer
W. African antelope 1 answer
What a beatnik beats 1 answer
Type of membranophone 1 answer
It's not played with sticks 1 answer
One of a percussive pair 2 answers
Drum in Afro-Cuban jazz 2 answers
Drum played with the hands 2 answers
Cuban drum 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with BONGO (5)

All the words and system of language were wholly changed--as for example, Poko poko wingi bongo, means "we do not understand"; Mazi, "fire"; Pi, "water"; Pe, "there is none"; Bugra, "cow." In sound, the language of these people resembles that of the Tibet Tartars.
The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 2002
His canoe was rounded toward the bottom like a bongo, and followed by a smaller boat called a curiara.
Equinoctial Regions of America V2 Alexander von Humboldt 2004
Well, you should hear Eddie tell the story of how he brought down the bull _bongo_ with his last cartridge after all the _pongos_, or native bearers, had fled into the _dongo_, or undergrowth." "I should love to!" whispered Betty, her eyes glowing.
The Clicking of Cuthbert P. G. Wodehouse 2004
Here we have a bit of the machinery of high civilization--a committee, with its investigation and report, used, or attempted to be used, with just the kind of savage directness with which a Bongo would use it, when once he came to understand it, and found he could make it serve some end, and with just as little reference to the moral aspect of the transaction.
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895 Edwin Lawrence Godkin 2005
Schweinfurth says, "The arrow and the spear heads are of the finest and most artistic work; their bristlelike barbs and points are baffling when one knows how few tools these smiths have." Excellent wood carving is found among the Bongo, Ovambo, and Makololo.
The Negro W.E.B. Du Bois 2005

Quotes with BONGO (3)

I was only beginning to enter into the infinite subtlety of Gregorian chant. It was - and remains - the only public prayer I have ever been able to engage in without feeling like a phony and a jackass. But then, one day in 1965 or so, it was simply abolished. With a stroke of his pen, Pope John XXIII - who had such good ideas about other things - declared that liturgy would henceforth be in the vernacular language of the people. That was, effectively, the end of Latin chant. …
Mary Rose O'Reilley The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd
Bongo and Shug seen what was going on and decided to smash holes all over the roof of the hall, just for something to do. Bongo was first on to the roof, where, unknown to him he was being filmed from a cell in the hall straight across from him, but Bongo didn’t give a fuck as he never even wore a mask to try and protect his face, he was in his element, so was Shug. And to their credit, they didn’t half wreck the roof of the hall.
Stephen Richards Scottish Hard Bastards
We are drawn to repetition. We can watch the tide rolling for hours into shore. The clouds skittering across the sky. We can listen to the pulsing beat of bongo drums and are drawn magnetically to the slap, slap, slap of a girl being chastised. The human is a mystery, even too himself.
Chloe Thurlow Girl Trade
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 117 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).