"air guitar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: air guitars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} air guitar (plural air guitars)
  1. An imaginary guitar that a listener to (usually rock) music pretends to play. Categories (topical): Music Derived forms: air guitarist Related terms: shadow boxing Translations (imaginary guitar that a person pretends to play): luchtgitaar [feminine] (Dutch), ilmakitara (Finnish), Luftgitarre [feminine] (German), léggitár (Hungarian), aerghiotár [masculine] (Irish), агаарын гитар (agaaryn gitar) (Mongolian), gitara powietrzna [feminine] (Polish), air guitar [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), luftgitarr (Swedish)
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Verb

Forms: air guitars [present, singular, third-person], air guitaring [participle, present], air guitared [participle, past], air guitared [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} air guitar (third-person singular simple present air guitars, present participle air guitaring, simple past and past participle air guitared)
  1. (intransitive) To mime the action of playing a guitar. Tags: intransitive Translations (to mime the action of playing a guitar): soittaa ilmakitaraa (Finnish), léggitározik (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-air_guitar-en-verb-ielUILuc

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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