Etymology

humbucker

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Today it means: A pickup, on an electric guitar, that has a pair of coils of reverse polarity connected in series in order to reduce buzzing noise caused by mains frequency. Full definition →

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The story

From hum (“noise”) + buck (“resist, overcome”) + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.