air guitar

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.

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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.

Unadapted borrowing from English air guitar.

air guitar m or f (uncountable)

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