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☆ gut·bucket (gut′buk′it)

adjective

designating or of a raucous, unsophisticated style of playing jazz

Etymology: orig., a bucket for food or drink for chain-gang laborers; later used for a pail circulated to collect contributions for beer or food, esp. for itinerant musicians; then, a saloon where such musicians played

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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