Boptalk

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From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959
If you dig bopster and all that jazz you won't come on so square, man. Zorch, slith, and other more or less meaningful words creep into fannish speech from jazz buffs' slang. Blame Jacobs, Cox, Raeburn, and the other cool cats, mostly.



Fanspeak 1940sβ€”1960s
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