单词 | chicago |
释义 | Chicagon. As a modifier. 1. Designating a person or thing from, belonging to, or associated with the city of Chicago. ΚΠ 1821 Let. 20 May in Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 22 June Dr Madison left this place on Friday..in company with the Chicago express. 1860 Cincinnati Commercial 29 Dec. 3/2 The Chicago Platform [of the Republicans] was framed with a view to recognizing the admissibility of a doctrine of absolute non-intervention. 1911 W. Williams & F. L. Martin Pract. Journalism iii. viii. 267 The Boston correspondent of a Chicago newspaper. 1948 Wakefield (Mich.) News 1 Oct. 4/3 Chicago folks simply walked up to his desk and wished him many happy returns of the day. 2007 M. South Cure for Anything is Saltwater iii. 56 He had a booming voice, a big heart, and a broad Chicago accent. 2. Designating a style of traditional jazz originating in Chicago, or a piece of music written in this style.Chicago jazz is generally considered to be a variety of New Orleans jazz, characterized by a faster tempo and greater emphasis on solo performances.In quot. 1918 it is not clear whether the meaning is ‘a jazz band from Chicago’ or ‘a band that plays Chicago jazz’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of rooty-toot1852 soul music1920 Chicago1923 gutbucket1925 symphonic jazz1926 Dixieland1927 jive1928 white jazz1931 Harlem1934 jump1937 New Orleans1938 free jazz1941 progressive jazz1944 bebop1945 gypsy swing1945 modern jazz1946 bop1948 new jazz1949 cool1952 Afro-jazz1954 funk1954 gypsy jazz1955 trad jazz1955 trad1956 whorehouse music1956 new thing1962 fusion1965 1918 N.Y. Times 10 Sept. 11/2 Jack Lait's ‘One of Us’..has some stamp of Western Journeying in a dangerous Frisco Molly and a Chicago jazz band, which made it fit neatly into the after-dinner hour in New York.] 1923 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 7 Dec. 9/2 The regular two step time is becoming more and more popular. It is known as ‘Chicago Jazz’ time.., but in reality, it is just the regular two step. 1935 Jazz Hot Mar. 13/3 It is curious to note how even Bennie Carter plays Chicago style with short, well-balanced phrases. 1948 Williams Rec. (Williams Coll.) 29 May 2/3 Dixieland jazz..was the first real music of its type..and was followed by Chicago jazz. 2001 R. E. Long Broadway v. 171 The opening curtain rises on a band playing Chicago-style jazz on a high onstage platform. 3. slang. As a modifier, with euphemistic or humorous reference to the reputed violence and lawlessness of Chicago during the Prohibition era (1920–33). Now chiefly historical. a. Chicago piano n. (a) British Navy an anti-aircraft gun on a ship; (b) a Thompson sub-machine gun. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [noun] > anti-aircraft gun anti-aircraft gun1911 Archibald1914 Archie1915 ack-ack1917 Chicago piano1936 Oerlikon1944 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun > sub-machine-gun > types of Thompson sub-machine gun1920 Thompson1921 Schmeisser1922 tommy gun1929 Chicago piano1936 Owen gun1941 Sten1942 Owen1948 Sterling1958 Uzi1959 Stechkin1962 kalashnikov1970 1936 Western Daily Press 7 Aug. 8/5 Among the anti-aircraft guns I was particularly intrigued by what the crew call the Chicago Piano—a multiple ‘pom-pom’ which fires 800 rounds a minute and can bring down an aeroplane a mile away by firing so as to form an air vacuum 100 feet square. 1941 C. Olsson in A. A. Michie & W. Graebner Lights of Freedom xiv. 183 Crouched by the ‘Chicago piano’ (battery of A.A. pompoms) amidships. 1943 Washington Post 31 Oct. 2 b/7 You don't fire on this gun [sc. a tommy gun]... You play on it. That's why it's called the Chicago piano. You have to have rhythm. 1975 Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle 11 July 4/2 Mr. Capone, I certainly could not smuggle a Chicago piano into your cell. 2019 @DefinitelyMike 13 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) The hose on this Chicago piano is still intact. Crazy. b. Chicago overcoat n. a coffin; cf. overcoat n. 1c.Apparently coined by U.S. author Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) in imitation of criminal slang; see quot. 1939, and also the following: 1950 R. Chandler Let. 18 May in Sel. Lett. (1987) 218 It is very difficult for the literary man to distinguish between a genuine crook term..and an invented one (like ‘Chicago overcoat’ for coffin). ΚΠ 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xxvi. 209 ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’ ‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’ Silence. 2009 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 Nov. 8 Most people look better in a zoot suit than a Chicago overcoat. c. Chicago typewriter n. a machine gun, typically a Thompson sub-machine gun; cf. typewriter n. 3.In quot. 19401 denoting an anti-aircraft emplacement on a ship, on which several machine guns are mounted; cf. Chicago piano n. (a) at sense 3a. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun machine gun1867 woodpecker1898 put-put1905 M.G.1915 typewriter1915 chopper1929 rattlebox1929 Chicago typewriter1940 1940 Asbury Park Evening Press (Neptune, New Jersey) 24 Feb. 2/3 Multiple machine guns (or a ‘Chicago typewriter’) aboard a French warship. 1940 Los Angeles Times 18 July 10/1 Some 1500 confiscated lethal weapons ranging from ‘belly guns’ to ‘Chicago typewriters’ were dumped into the deep blue Pacific yesterday. 1977 Fortnight Jan. 13/1 The Al Capones and Godfathers of terrorism raced their flash cars through our streets and rammed Chicago typewriters against our heads. 1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse ix. 418 What sort of weapon she used I don't know, but I hope it wasn't the Thompson submachine gun in the county historical museum, her ‘Chicago typewriter’ engraved with names of gangsters she claimed to have known Back East. 4. Designating a type of hot dog, said to have originated in Chicago, made from beef and typically served in a poppy seed bun with a variety of toppings, including mustard, chopped onions, and pickles. Chiefly in Chicago dog, Chicago hot dog, Chicago-style hot dog. ΚΠ 1955 Brazil (Indiana) Daily Times 19 Jan. 8/4 He joined furniture maker Arthur Cohen in a dinner of Chicago hot dogs which Cohen had brought back from Illinois. 1981 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 9 Aug. 2 c/8 Chicago dogs—served with yellow mustard, dark green relish, chopped raw onion, tomato slices, topped with a dash of celery salt on a poppy seed bun. 2019 @jammindriver 8 Mar. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If you are from the Midwest, you know that eating a Chicago dog at work means having poppy seeds all over your desk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1821 |
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