Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Something typical of a stereotypic hillbilly; Something characterized by lack of education, poverty, inbreeding or lack of sophistication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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History
From a scene in the 1972 film Deliverance in which a tourist with a guitar gets into a picking contest with a hillbilly on a banjo, both playing parts of the song "Dueling Banjos" (originally titled "Feuding Banjos") by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.
