Cryptic crossword clue
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The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word XYLOPHONES

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What does XYLOPHONES mean?

XYLOPHONES noun
  1. Any musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
XYLOPHONES verb
  1. To play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
  2. To move above a ridged surface so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.

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