A basket-hilted duelling or fencing sword with a blunt tip and a long flat blade sharpened on the edge near the tip, of a type used by German university students in fencing duels.
Originally, in German-speaking contexts: a popular song, a hit song. Later usually: specifically a song of the schlager genre.
A genre of popular music characterized by sentimental and undemanding lyrics, simple upbeat melodies, and (in later use usually) synthesized instrumentals, produced in Germany and other parts of (especially central and northern) Europe.