Bugles

Witch-finger corn snacks

Bugles are cone-shaped corn snacks, hollow and crispy, often eaten by placing them on fingertips: She put Bugles on all ten fingers before eating them.

The name comes from their resemblance to the brass instrument.

Lowercase, a bugle is a small valveless brass horn used for military signals—reveille, taps, charge.

To bugle is to sound such a horn, or for an elk, to make its distinctive mating call.

instrument

brass

Copper-zinc metal mixture

taps · cavalry · fanfare · mouthpiece · valveless · signal · corps · ceremonial · clarion · herald

snack

corn

Cereal grown on cobs

General Mills · salty · puffed · crispy · savory · chips · munchies · snacking · party · nacho

beads

tubular

Having cylinder form

Victorian · fringe · trim · ornament · sewing · elongated · seed beads · needlework · jewelry · embellishment

Categories
Opposites
snack chip shape

Buglespotato chips

Thin fried tuber slices

Lay's · Pringles · tortilla chips · Tostitos · Doritos

snack food texture

Buglesgummy bears

Bear-shaped gelatin candies

marshmallows · fruit snacks · cheese puffs · soft pretzels · pudding cups

musical instrument type

Buglesdrums

Struck membrane instruments

bass drum · snare drum · timpani · cymbals · violin

Phrases
Family

bugle, bugler, bugling, bugled, buglers

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G