Synonyms for accordion
əˈkɔr di ənac·cor·dion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. accordionnoun

   Synonyms:
   squeezebox

2. accordionadjective

   Pleated, or folded like a bellows from an accordion.

   Synonyms:
   squeezebox

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 4 votes

1. accordion, piano accordion, squeeze boxnoun

   a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

   Synonyms:
   squeeze box, piano accordion

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1. • Free-reed Instrument
   • Keyboard Instrument

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1. Tal Winter:

   It’s bad for my health, it’s horrid for the environment and it’s also really ugly, it’s like a garbage accordion.

2. Jed Babbin, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense:

   Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless, noisy baggage behind.

3. Richard Farley:

   Often when doing an add-on or tapping an accordion, Fed and OCC regulated banks - even if they are in the syndicate now - are saying no if lead arranging a new deal will be criticized.

4. Kim Fish:

   I was on the phone with my 7-year-old daughter who asked me if her daddy was going to die, and that's when I collapsed on the floor like an accordion, i got up and burst out of the sand-bagged hospital doors to get back home to my husband, but I was stopped by 5-foot deep freezing seawater.

5. Zachary Lippman:

   When you mutate the gene, it basically shrinks the plant like an accordion so you can make it much more compact.