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The Real Jazz Old and New choose

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[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 148: Musically [...] to break time out of tempo is to brown off [W&F].
at brown off, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New xi: The whole Storyville era when jazz grew up in the canhouses of New Orleans [W&F].
at can house (n.) under can, n.1
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 148: Carrying weight is a load of the blues [W&F].
at carry weight (v.) under carry, v.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 150: A dance is a cement-mixer [W&F].
at cement mixer (n.) under cement, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 150: Money is china [W&F].
at china, n.2
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 149: A clambake is a jam session [W&F].
at clambake, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 150: A sad type is a cleek [W&F].
at cleek, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 103: And the piano chords rode up and down and somebody ran out to get another bottle of crackskull. And the chippie he was dating hitched up her rolled stockings and said, ‘Play it, Daddy’ [W&F].
at crackskull, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 148: Faust is not a poem, it means ugly [W&F].
at faust, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 150: long underwear; concert stuff [W&F].
at long underwear, n.
[US] in S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New.
at percolator, n.
[US] (ref. to 1930s) S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 126: Depression came [...] You could always get together and charge a few coins and have a shake [...] the money paid the rent.
at shake, n.1
[US] (ref. to 1924) S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 145: Smoke pad, the cot on which the [opium] smoking is done.
at smoke pad (n.) under smoke, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 104: He mixed with vipers on the reefer trail [...] but there isn’t much record that he went for tea-sticks himself.
at tea stick (n.) under tea, n.
[US] S. Longstreet Real Jazz Old and New 148: The uppity, the ritzy folk, don’t know the half of it [W&F].
at uppities, n.
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