verb, noun — 7 senses
UK /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/ · US /ˈbɑŋ.ɡoʊ/
Etymology From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.
To play the bongo drums.
Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.
To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
An 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.
An agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.
Etymology From Spanish bongo.
A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
Etymology From United States Spanish bongó, from a Bantu language; probably Ekele boungu.
Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.
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