agony-pipe

English

Noun

agony-pipe (plural agony-pipes)

  1. (jazz slang) A clarinet.
    • 1957, Metronome, volume 74, page 17:
      This was that same agony-pipe, which, in the German rhapsody, wails its way into the most exciting of all symphonic expressions of the jazz idiom...
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