1.NounAny musical instrument (percussion idiophone) made of wooden slats graduated so as to make the sounds of the scale when struck with a small drumstick-like mallet; the standard Western concert xylophone or one of its derivatives.
"All I know how to play on my xylophone is "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Would you like to hear it?"
2.VerbTo play a xylophone or to play something else as though it was a xylophone.
3.VerbTo move above a ridged surface or series of surfaces so as to hit every ridge, in a manner similar to playing quickly and sequentially on a xylophone.