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payola
noun- an illegal payment to a radio station or individual to encourage the playing of a particular song US, 1938
The word leapt into the American vocabulary in late 1959 as pay-off scandal after pay-off scandal toppled the first generation of rock ’n’ roll disc jockeys. Later broadened to include other forms of bribery. - — Arnold Shaw, Lingo of Tin-Pan Alley, p. 16, 1950
- — American Speech, pp. 104–16, May 1961: “Payola”
- If she really liked the record she might hustle it with a little extra effort, but without ever getting hyper about it. Any payola arrangements, if they were made, were left to Artie. — Elmore Leonard, Touch, p. 22, 1977
- reward money for anonymous police informants UK
- The names only went down on paper when I needed payola for them–a reward for services rendered which had to go through official channels. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, pp. 116–17, 2002
- oil US
- — Ken Weaver, Texas Crude, 1984
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