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gate
noun- a jazz musician; hence a fashionable man US, 1936
A pun on “swinging” (swing gate), abbreviated from GATOR. - And the gate that rocked at the eighty-eight was blowin’ “How High the Moon.” — William “Lord” Buckley, The Ballad of Dan McGroo, 1960
- used as a term of address among jazz lovers of the 1930s and 40s US, 1936
- Friends are addressed as gate or slot, verbal shorthand for gatemouth and slotmouth, which are inner-circle racial jokes to begin with[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 220, 1946
- a young person US, 1936
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Dictionary, p. 11, 1945
- release from prison US, 1966
- So to even the score, they gave the rat four/ when he should have got the gate. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 82, 1986
- a vein into which a drug is injected US
- — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 214, 1986
- the mouth US, 1936
- She’s just big-gatin’, boss, tryna run up de price. — Chester Himes, Cotton Comes to Harlem, p. 38, 1965
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