1933 Metronome Aug. 16: Eddie was playing the kind of banjo I wanted, but I got him to lean that ‘gitter box’.at box, n.1
1933 Metronome Aug. 16: Eddie was playing the kind of banjo I wanted, but I got him to learn that ‘gitter box’.at gitbox, n.
1937 Metronome Mar. 30: Once again I’d like to rise up in arms against the ‘unseen horde’ of ickies who under the guise of posing as musicians and ‘heppers’ persist in burdening us readers.at icky, n.
1937 Metronome Aug. 7: In my opinion, a great many readers of Met are the rankest sort of ickies.at rank, adj.1
1947 Metronome Jan. 32: He might not have the chops he used to have, but his ideas are always fine.at chops, n.1
1955 Metronome July 22: Lord Buckley [...] addresses this album of classics in bop talk to Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin’ Daddies.at finger-popping, adj.
1957 Metronome 74 17: This was not the clarinet of Brahms or Mozart. This was that same agony-pipe, which [...] wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom.at agony pipe (n.) under agony, n.
1961 Metronome Apr. 32: The arrangements by Clayton are effortless and elegant — he has always been a boss arranger.at boss, adj.
1961 Metronome Feb. 20: This ingenuous belief that Louis Armstrong can smile away the egregious clinkers in our foreign policy is akin to having Frank Sinatra do a policy paper on Algeria.at clinker, n.7
1961 Metronome Feb. 30: I am one of those who got turned off a couple of years ago when Brookmeyer started recording albums that sounded like trumped-up dixieland.at turned off, adj.2