twanger

There was only one drug that plunked her magic twanger nowadays.

"Well, me old twanger, you never got to brain Gabool, after all.

Another twanger, the tribune thought.

Much more than just an earnest hillbilly twanger, Ringenberg is a songwriter of...

"Now put that twanger down."

Narrowing of the aryepiglottic sphincter (the "twanger")

In the three nights at Lincoln Center he was a crooner, a howler, a swinger, a brooder, an orchestral composer and a guitar twanger.

It included such characters as Froggy the Gremlin ("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!")

Hiya, hiya, hiya" and "Pluck your magic twanger, Froggy" originate from that earlier show.

Should she not be a Happy Medium, a Plateau Potato, a Twanger, a Mime, a Dreamer, and Enhincer-Dincer?

Described vocally as a "gruff, reliable twanger", lead singer Danny Shirley cites outlaw country acts such as Waylon Jennings as his major influence.

The most popular segment was the visit from Froggy the Gremlin who would appear when Smilin' Ed yelled his famous catch-phrase, "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"

The character Midnight the Cat actually spoke a few lines on the show and Smilin' Ed was always prone to sing a novelty song or two by plunking his magic twanger.

Or crack, I've tried them all, in dosages that would put the US Olympic Team in the morgue; but no luck There is only one drug that plunks my magic twanger nowadays.

He flicked the magic plastic twanger in his hand to make the channels change, and the light flared and flickered soundlessly, and then he let the song rise, a band playing, a travesty, people clapping.

Froggy's Lament also pays tribute to Smilin' Ed McConnell and Froggy the Gremlin from Andy's Gang with its lyrics "Hiya, kids" and "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"

Headlining is T-Model Ford, a 73-year-old Mississippi country blues picker and twanger who served two years on a chain gang for murder and seems to be ready for more with lyrics like "I feel so bad/Feel like breaking somebody's arm."

It was also not as feature-rich and contained some different AI class names, such as "Rifleman" and "Twanger" (which may have been changed, as they were also AI class names in the slightly earlier artillery game, Tank Wars).

Buckner & Garcia paid tribute to these characters on a 1982 novelty song about the arcade game Frogger called "Froggy's Lament" from their album Pac-Man Fever with its lyrics "Hiya kids" and "Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"