MUSIC HALL
NOUNS
► ARTFUL FOX a theatrical box → 1882 music-hall rhyming sl.
► DARKIES a variety of late-night music-halls and bars on or near the Strand, London, usually situated below ground level → M19 sl.
► GAFF a cheap music hall or theatre → L18 sl.
► PENNY GAFF a cheap music hall or theatre → 1812 UK sl.
► PENNY-ROOM a low-class theatre, music-hall → 1851 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► EARLY TURNER an inferior music hall artist; such a performer taking the first, second, or third turn or ‘item’ on the program, i.e., before the hall is full or the fashionable part of the audience arrives → 1909 theatrical usage (Bk.)
VERBS
► CRACK THE MONICA to ring the bell to summon a performer to reappear → c1860 music-halls’ sl.
► GAFF to play or perform in a music hall → M19 sl.
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