steel guitar
noun
1.
an acoustic, hand-held guitar having a metal resonator and producing a wailing, variable sound.
2.
a pedal steel guitar.
3.
a Hawaiian guitar.
Origin
1925-30
Examples from the web for
steel guitar
The ridiculous one is the maudlin glissando on ukulele and
steel guitar
, the tear-duct of popular music.
Music was furnished by the accordion, the fiddle with steel strings, the
steel guitar
and the steel triangle.
They use something they call the
steel guitar
, and they'd move the bottleneck on them.
British Dictionary definitions for
steel guitar
steel guitar
noun
1.
See
Hawaiian guitar
,
pedal steel guitar