house band

noun

A band that is regularly stationed at an establishment (restaurant, television studio, etc.)

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Meanings

nounhouse band (plural house bands)

plural house bands

  1. entertainmentA band that is regularly stationed at an establishment (restaurant, television studio, etc.)

    For years, this 30-plus crew of session musicians, the house band at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios, were crack accompanists.

    1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 308
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APA

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Chicago

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