bongo

plural bongos

1. A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

plural bongos · plural bongoes

1. Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

   He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee.

   1984, Dire Straits (band), Money for Nothing (song)

   Synonyms: bongo drum

present singular third person bongos · participle present bongoing · participle past bongoed · past bongoed

1. intransitiveTo play the bongo drums.
2. intransitiveOf the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
3. transitiveTo hit something rhythmically with the hands.

1. A Central Sudanic language spoken by the Bongo people in sparsely populated areas of Bahr al Ghazal in South Sudan.

   Synonyms: Bungu, Dor

2. A gewog of Chhukha District, Bhutan.

1. pluralplural onlyAn ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.
2. pluralplural onlyAn agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.

   Synonyms: Babongo, Bazimba