guitars

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of guitar.

   The band traveled with a dozen guitars for the summer tour.

   Several vintage guitars sold for record prices at the auction.

   Note

   A regular plural that can stretch as wide as the noun does. In everyday use it means the familiar fretted, usually six-string instruments, but in a broader, classifying sense it takes in the whole lute-family group: a flat back, and a neck whose surface lies level with the soundboard. The same spelling also serves the informal 'plays guitar' verb, so only the sentence around it tells you which is meant.

2. 2
   verbcolloquial

   Third-person singular simple present of guitar. Informal.

   He guitars in a local band every weekend at the riverside bar.

   Whenever the crowd grows quiet, she guitars a slow ballad to win them back.

   Note

   An informal verb, made by putting the instrument's name to work as an action. It sits comfortably in casual speech (she guitars in a cover band), but in formal writing plays the guitar is the safer choice. Like any regular verb it adds -s after he, she or it, which is why it looks exactly like the plural noun.

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