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  2. Big Butter and Egg Man - Wikipedia

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    The song name was a 1920s slang term for a big spender, a traveling businessman in the habit of spending large amounts of money in nightclubs. [4] The song is also known as "I Want a Big Butter and Egg Man" or "Big Butter and Egg Man from the West". Armstrong recorded the song again in 1951 for Decca Records as a duet with Velma Middleton.

  3. Shave and a Haircut - Wikipedia

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    See media help. " Shave and a Haircut " and the associated response " two bits " is a seven-note musical call-and-response couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, usually for comedic effect. It is used melodically or rhythmically, for example as a door knocker. "Two bits" is a term in the United States and ...

  4. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...

  5. Shake Your Moneymaker (song) - Wikipedia

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    Elmore James song. "Shake Your Moneymaker" is an up-tempo 12-bar blues featuring slide guitar. James frequently repeats the phrase "shake your money maker" throughout the song, but provides little context for the lyrics. Author Peter Silverton believes that they are not "a reference to prostitution but to the same nexus of cash and female ...

  6. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary was intended as a dictionary of slang or cultural words and phrases, not typically found in standard English dictionaries, but it is now used to define any word, event, or phrase (including sexually explicit content).

  7. Detroit Slang - AOL

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    Getty Images Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others.

  8. Blue Money - Wikipedia

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    Blue Money. " Blue Money " is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. It was the second of two Top Forty hits from his 1970 album, His Band and the Street Choir (the other being "Domino"), reaching No. 23 on the US chart. The US single featured "Sweet Thing", from the album Astral Weeks, as the B-side.

  9. Goober Peas - Wikipedia

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    A. Pindar. "Goober Peas" (pronunciation ⓘ) is a traditional folk song probably originating in the Southern United States. It was popular with Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, and is still sung frequently in the South to this day. It has been recorded and sung by scores of artists, including Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford ...