xylophones

/Z AY1 L AH0 F OW0 N Z/
noun
  1. 1

    Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.

    All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?

verb
  1. 1

    To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.

  2. 2

    To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xylophone, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xylophones