Bazooka

The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone. Radio comedian Bob Burns is credited with inventing the instrument in the 1910s, and popularized it in the 1930s. The name «bazooka» comes from an extension of the word «bazoo», which is slang for «mouth» or «boastful talk», and which ultimately probably stems from Dutch bazuin (buisine, a medieval trumpet).