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tubs
noun
drums US- Ray Eisel, the drummer, was a thin and wiry fly cat who really beat his tubs. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 61, 1946
- — Babs Gonzales, Be-Bop Dictionary and History of its Famous Stars, p. 9, 1949
- [A] big brutal Negro with a bullneck who didn’t give a damn about anything but punishing his husted tubs, crash, rattle-ti-boom, crash. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 197, 1957
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a gay bath house; the gay bath house scene collectively US, 1964- — Maledicta, p. 146, Summer/Winter 1986&a: “Sexual slang: prostitutes, pedophiles, flagellators, transvestites, and necrophiles”
- — Guy Strait, The Lavender Lexicon, 1 June 1964
- — Bruce Rodgers, The Queens’ Vernacular, p. 28, 1972
- At times like this, the tubs was an easy way out. Discreet, dispassionate, noncommital. — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 313, 1978
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