armstrong meaning

• Noun: Armstrong  'aa(r)m`stróng
  1. United States pioneering jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971)
     - Louis Armstrong, Satchmo 
  2. United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
     - Neil Armstrong

  Derived forms: Armstrongs

  Type of: astronaut, cornetist, cosmonaut, jazz musician, jazzman, spaceman, spacewoman, trumpeter

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Examples

1. armstrong had rigged up a strap around a vertical bar so that it formed a hammock for his feet.
2. perhaps i like louis armstrong because he's made poetry out of being invisible.
3. whatever his origin and status in english life, the young roderick armstrong was a tartar.
4. armstrong betrayed little himself, beyond telling me what i already knew, that the permanent secretaries were firmly behind waddell.
5. .. . and amanda armstrong's down the other end