Music Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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there guitar n. This summer, Crane will give his own Sermon on the Mount. For the month of June, in addition to playing what he refers to as the “there guitar” (similar to how e-mail users call paper correspondence “snail mail”) in his own New York-based band, Crane will visit 15 U.S. cities as emcee of the first official “Aireoke” tour. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 20, 2007)

there guitar n. Tonight one of Conan’s guests was perennial air guitar contest runner-up, Bjorn Turock (sp?). In the course of the interview, Bjorn bristled at Conan’s inquiry as to what air guitarists call “real” guitars. Restating the question, Conan asked, “So what do you call a guitar… that displaces water when placed in a cylinder.” Bjorn: “I prefer to call that a “there guitar."” [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 20, 2007)

thug-love duet n. This summer brings a wild array of contenders, upholding or overturning thug-love precedent. The charts are full of couples: some make rash promises, some trade boasts, some simply flirt. One performer has found a way to record a thug-love duet without any help; at the other end of the spectrum is a group effort starring one woman and no fewer than 14 men. [English Entertainment Hip-Hop Music] [full cite] (Jun. 1, 2006)

tip drill n. “If you take offense, it’s like you’re saying you are a tip drill,” a street term for a woman in whom men only have a sexual interest. [Hip-Hop Music Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (May. 26, 2004)

trade fours v. phr. We shared a too brief lunch during which both father and son in the special parlance of jazz musicians “traded fours,” with a rising crescendo of memories of all that Herb Pomeroy, trumpeter and inspiring teacher, had given to others of music born in the very soul of humankind. [English Music Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 25, 2007)

train wreck n. Formats called “Jack,” springing up nationwide, program what the industry calls “train wrecks”—juxtapositions of songs from different genres and different eras. It’s an approximation of what happens when you put an iPod on shuffle. [English Media Music] [full cite] (May. 18, 2005)

train wreck n. Overshadowed and ignored by Commercial Radio where the main intention is to hold listeners attention until the next commercial, and largely an enigma on Public Radio where musical programming is mostly genre-specific. It’s derided as a “train wreck,” mostly by those whose main musical interest is marketing it. But when it’s a train wreck, it’s at least a train wreck in an unexplored country. [English Media Music] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

train wreck n. Compared with most commercial stations, segueing from Whitesnake to Wings (a juxtaposition known as a “train wreck” in radio parlance) gives Jack an amateur status on par with college radio. [English Media Music] [full cite] (Jun. 28, 2006)

tranoe n. Metalux’s unique sound partially derives from their gear. Besides guitars and synthesizers, the two use a reel-to-reel tape machine and something invented by Baltimore instrument inventor Peter B. called a “tranoe” (pronounced like “canoe"). “His instruments are tactile,” explains Gräf, “so they’re electronic but they’re sort of like patch synthesizers; but you’re making the connections with your hands or you can make them with alligator clips. Instead of knobs, they have these nodes, metal rods sticking out that you connect. I can process things through that—my voice, guitar, whatever I put into it.” [English Music] [full cite] (Jul. 30, 2005)

trunk rattler n. To many who’ve followed Allbangers’ career those questions linger like bass-line snaps, chord changes and hidden drum samples ("I love drums,” he says) in one of his “trunk rattlers.” [English Hip-Hop Music] [full cite] (Aug. 9, 2006)

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