air guitar

See also: air-guitar

English

A man playing air guitar

Noun

air guitar (plural air guitars)

1. An imaginary guitar that a listener to (usually rock) music pretends to play.

   I was embarrassed when my girlfriend walked in on my friends and me playing air guitar.

Derived terms

• air guitarist

 

Translations

imaginary guitar that a person pretends to play

• Dutch: luchtgitaar (nl) f
• Finnish: ilmakitara (fi)
• German: Luftgitarre (de) f
• Hungarian: léggitár
• Irish: aerghiotár m
• Mongolian: агаарын гитар (agaaryn gitar)
• Polish: gitara powietrzna f
• Portuguese: air guitar m or f
• Swedish: luftgitarr (sv)

See also

• shadow boxing

Verb

air guitar (third-person singular simple present air guitars, present participle air guitaring, simple past and past participle air guitared)

1. (intransitive) To mime the action of playing a guitar.
   • 2014, John L. Arnott, Magic Tales, AuthorHouse, →ISBN (hardcover), →ISBN (softcover), 191:

     Randy put his hand in the air and gave Ryan a resounding high-five, yelling, “Oh yeah!” and starts to air guitar, triggering the rest of the family to air guitar with him.

Translations

to mime the action of playing a guitar

• Finnish: soittaa ilmakitaraa
• Hungarian: léggitározik

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English air guitar.

Noun

air guitar m or f (uncountable)

1. air guitar (imaginary guitar that a person pretends to play)