• Booder

    Origin

    The term came into the popular vernacular in the jazz scene in 1920's Harlem

    Harlem- the Making of a Ghetto 1890-1930, Gilbert Osofsky, 1966

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    Noun

    booder

    (plural booders)
    1. (US, slang, dated, jazz)

    Usage notes

    Originally used by young males from what would become the Sugar Hill neighborhood of , to the north of Harlem.

    The Harlem Renaissance, James Haskins, 1996 The vernacular moved with the spread of jazz music through New York City, traveling gradually downtown. Secondhand accounts cite having used the word to describe the "...booders in those martinis..." and saying that his "expletive booder is loose," before a concert with in 1925.

    Soloists and Sidemen: American Jazz Stories, Peter Vacher, 2004

    Usage declined in the mid-50's.

    Rock and Roll: A Social History, Paul Friedlander, 1996

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