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ad lib.
abbrev. of ad libitum advb. phr.
1811in T. Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3). 1894Stevenson & Osbourne Ebb-Tide i. v. 66, I'll have fizz ad lib., or it won't wash. 1900in A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 27 The catalogue may be extended ad lib. for those who require their spring-balance weighing-machine, vaseline,..and small bottle of odourless paraffin. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Sept. 719/3 Now he could have all he wanted for his mass methods—living material ad lib., hundreds of test-tubes for his cultures in place of dozens. 1962N. Del Mar R. Strauss I. vi. 183 He never gave them [saxophones] any solo work, marked them ad lib., and..omitted them in his own performances.
B. adj. |ˌædˈlɪb|. Extemporized, improvised, spontaneous, unrehearsed. orig. U.S. Also as n., something spoken or played extempore (chiefly U.S.).
1925Amer. Speech I. 36/1 ‘Can the ad lib!’ which means, politely, ‘Will you be good enough to hush!’ 1935Peabody Bulletin (Baltimore) Dec. 42/2 Licks: Phrases used in solo choruses that are..catchy. They occur in ‘ad lib solos’ or hot choruses. 1948Daily Tel. 11 June 5/4 That was an ill-considered ad lib remark. 1958G. Lascelles in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz viii. 107 With his early big band..he retained a reasonable ad-lib feeling. |