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plural accordions
A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds. quotations examples
A disreputable accordion that had a leak somewhere and breathed louder than it squawked.
1869, Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad
(graphical user interface) A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents. examples
(figurative) A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects. examples
third-person singular simple present accordions, present participle accordioning, simple past and past participle accordioned
(transitive, intransitive) To fold up, in the manner of an accordion quotations examples
I slit the wrapping with my pocketknife and the clothesline accordioned out in stiff loops.
1980, Stephen King, The Mist
Still in reverse, she goosed the gas and accordioned the running board a fraction of an inch more.
2000 December 29, Charles Dickinson, “Qi”, in Chicago Reader
It accordioned down and he tugged the shirt around it so that it came free […] .
2005, Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town