"Shedding." "Chops." "Rataricious." Sometimes it seems like jazz cats have their own language. Of course, many times those words also end up in other people's mouths: Terms like "hipster," "crib" and "the man" all came from the jazz world more than 70 years ago. You dig?
Here, Jazz Night In America takes a brief look at where jazz slang came from, with lots of colorful language along the way.
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