1. tambourine - Noun
2. tambourine - Verb
A small drum, especially a shallow drum with only one skin, played on with the hand, and having bells at the sides; a timbrel.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTed, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine. Anthony Burgess
The tambourine jingle-jangles. The medium roams and rambles. Not taken in, I break the circle. I want this man To go away now. Kate Bush
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. José Mourinho
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me. In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you. Bob Dylan
I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me. Jonathan Safran Foer
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can. Taylor Hanson