electric guitar

noun

1. a guitar equipped with electric or magnetic pickups that permit its sound to be amplified and fed to a loudspeaker.

electric guitar

noun

1. an electronically amplified guitar, used mainly in pop music Compare acoustic guitar

Word History and Origins

Origin of electric guitar¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

He pans the camera to another corner of his apartment, where an acoustic and electric guitar are racked up next to a mixing console.

From Los Angeles Times

The sound is raw yet tuneful, with scratchy electric guitars and whomping live drums in place of the synth-ier, more intricately layered productions of “Love Hate Music Box.”

From Los Angeles Times

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ongoing M72 world tour.

From Los Angeles Times

Slipshod electric guitars spin like a lazy kite around strident acoustic guitars and a buoyant rhythm section.

From Salon

The song opens with a gently plucked electric guitar, as Nemo dives down to the lower end of their vocal register to divulge an existential crisis.

From BBC