accordion n 1: a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player [syn: {accordion}, {piano accordion}, {squeeze box}]
Accordion \Ac*cor"di*on\, n. [See {Accord}.] (Mus.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds. [1913 Webster]
ACCORDION, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.