Stratocastern.

Brit.

/ˈstratəkɑːstə/,

/ˈstratəkastə/, U.S.

/ˈstrædəˌkæstər/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: strato- comb. form², English Broadcaster.

Etymology: < strato- comb. form² (compare sense 2 at that entry) + -caster (in Broadcaster, the name of another electric guitar manufactured by Fender, and in telecaster n. 2: compare discussion at that entry). Compare Strat n.

A proprietary name for: a model of electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, with a distinctively shaped contoured body featuring cutaway sections in the lower and upper parts near the neck, and a scratchplate which extends to the area of the pickups and volume and tone controls. Cf. Strat n.

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1954 Purchaser's Guide to Music Industries 127/2 (advt.) Stratocaster precision bass with tremolo.

1954 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 30 Apr. 30/5 Eddie Cletro will be playing, for the first time, his new stratocaster contour guitar.

1982 D. Lawrenson Compl. Guitar Guide 9/2 In 1954..the Fender Stratocaster..had three pickups instead of two.

1992 I. Banks Crow Road (1993) xvii. 434 Dean was playing—necessarily softly—on his Stratocaster, while Helen held a bottle of Jack Daniels.

2005 Wire Dec. 53/4 A track like ‘Killing Machine’ could be reproduced on drily-miked drumkit, stratocaster and synth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	stratocaster
释义	Stratocastern. Brit. /ˈstratəkɑːstə/, /ˈstratəkastə/, U.S. /ˈstrædəˌkæstər/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: strato- comb. form², English Broadcaster. Etymology: < strato- comb. form² (compare sense 2 at that entry) + -caster (in Broadcaster, the name of another electric guitar manufactured by Fender, and in telecaster n. 2: compare discussion at that entry). Compare Strat n. A proprietary name for: a model of electric guitar manufactured by the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, with a distinctively shaped contoured body featuring cutaway sections in the lower and upper parts near the neck, and a scratchplate which extends to the area of the pickups and volume and tone controls. Cf. Strat n. ΚΠ 1954 Purchaser's Guide to Music Industries 127/2 (advt.) Stratocaster precision bass with tremolo. 1954 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 30 Apr. 30/5 Eddie Cletro will be playing, for the first time, his new stratocaster contour guitar. 1982 D. Lawrenson Compl. Guitar Guide 9/2 In 1954..the Fender Stratocaster..had three pickups instead of two. 1992 I. Banks Crow Road (1993) xvii. 434 Dean was playing—necessarily softly—on his Stratocaster, while Helen held a bottle of Jack Daniels. 2005 Wire Dec. 53/4 A track like ‘Killing Machine’ could be reproduced on drily-miked drumkit, stratocaster and synth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1954
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