bongo

verb3

1. •
   To play the bongo drums.
2. •
   To hit something rhythmically with the hands.
3. •
   Of the heart, etc.: to beat with an irregular rhythm.

noun2

1. •
   Either of a pair of small drums of Cuban origin, played by beating with the hands.

   • He's banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee. — 1984
2. •
   A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.

noun[plural only]2

1. •
   An ethnic group living at the eastern side of the Albert Nile River in northwestern Uganda and in neighbouring South Sudan in small, scattered settlements south and east of Wau.
2. •
   An agricultural people of Gabon in equatorial Africa.