noun
joanna
joh-A-nuh
noun
1
British slang for a piano.
"He sat down at the joanna and started playing old music-hall tunes."
How to Use Joanna
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishOld-fashioned London slang for "piano," from rhyming slang.
When to use it
Informal, dated British slang — mostly heard in older films or East London dialect.
Word Forms
joannas plural
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Etymology
Cockney rhyming slang: "joanna" rhymes with a dialectal pronunciation of "piano."