(n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
(v. t.) To make to look like a bagpipe.
Example Sentences:
(1) The phenomenon has been called the "bagpipe" stomach.
(2) This is not, perhaps, an essential stop-off on strict craft beer terms, but it is worth seeing for the building and – if such music is your bagpipes - the nightly traditional folk sessions that the Onion hosts with cultural centre An Droichead .
(3) About half a dozen of the vocal minority were camped outside the Ineos compound on Tuesday, one playing his own set of bagpipes with impressive flames shooting out of them.
(4) The lack of drama – the merciful absence of bagpipes-and-Braveheart-bullshit – at the paper’s launch was quite deliberate.
(5) "Paul, as I understand it, the situation with the vuvuzelas is rather as if the World Cup was played in Scotland, and thousands of people bought plastic, imitation bagpipes made in China and played them continually through every match," summarises Alan Cooper. "
(6) Gathering outside their tents in the shadow of St Paul's soaring facade, the Occupy London protestors are a motley crowd, with their bagpipes, dogs and earnest discussion groups at the "University of Tent City", but their anger is heartfelt.
(7) Hugh Jackman sang Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage at the end of the ceremony and bagpipers from the New York City police department played on the streets as mourners filed out of Temple Emanu-El, many dabbing their eyes.
(8) It is an argument, in that case, which might easily, without bagpipes or warriors, appeal to residents of any impoverished and resentful region of the United Kingdom, if only they had the means and a similar certainty that, left to themselves, a more equal society would result.
(9) Johnson resolutely declined to emerge from his home to greet a gathering press, a bagpiper in full musical flow, and Kay Burley of Sky News knocking on his door at 4.50am.
(10) The latest additions include a Mongolian camel coaxing ritual, bagpipe culture in Slovakia and Tinian marble craftsmanship in Greece.
(11) In an interview with the American financial magazine Bloomberg Money Markets, he said that people abroad associate Scotland with 'whisky, tartan, bagpipes, and golf'.
(12) Drums and bagpipes were also played during the occupation of the store, which lasted a number of hours.
(13) It is not long since Salmond attended the premiere of Pixar's Brave (with its acclaimed bagpipe soundtrack) in tartan trews.
(14) Accompanied by the sound of a lone Scottish bagpiper, the Insight slid serenely under the Forth Bridge in the blue dawn light, bound inexorably for Grangemouth.
(15) We’ve all said this so many times: The one person who would really think this is the greatest thing ever is the lady who it’s all about and she’s not here,” said Norville afterward, amid the throngs of well-wishers and sound of bagpipes.
(16) Bagpipes, of course, have been banned by the tournament organisers.
(17) The man was wearing a backpack, top zip tugged open to make room for the bits of bagpipe he had stashed inside.
(18) In reality, they were the bagpipes played by Scottish soldiers.
(19) But, for now, the spotlight is on McAllister, who marched, Braveheart-style, out of the campaign rally to the CDU's election anthem, a punchy bagpipe rock number whose lyrics include the line: "Our chieftain is a Scot and we are a strong clan."
(20) Prince William and the royal party could have been forgiven for not noticing, but there was a part of Quebec that had no intention of welcoming him and his wife, except with whistles, saucepan lids, vuvuzelas and, incongruously, bagpipes.
Zampogna
Definition:
(n.) A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.