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alligator
noun- an enthusiastic fan of swing jazz US, 1936
- Bernie could well remember the “alligators” of the late swing period, those serious types, self-styled students of American jazz, who used to edge up to the orchestra shell and remain there all night, indefatigably listening. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 81, 1961
- — Robert S. Gould, A Jazz Lexicon, p. 6, 1964
- any unpleasant and difficult task US
- — Charles Shafer, Folk Speech in Texas Prisons, p. 197, 1990
- a circus performer’s wife US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 8, 1981
- in electric line work, an insulated line tool known formally as a “tie stick” US
- — A. B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 1, 1980
- in television and film making, a clamp used to attach lighting US
- — Ira Konigsberg, The Complete Film Dictionary, p. 9, 1987
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