jazz garters
jazz garters is the plural of jazz garter.
Meaning of jazz garter
Noun
jazz garter (plural jazz garters)
- A decorative garter worn by women during the Jazz Age.
- Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'.
The girls would squeal and giggle and start...1965, R. H. Conquest, Horses in the Kitchen: True Tales of Outback Australia, page 37
- Occasionally at a bush dance, when the elderly folk were conspicuous by their absence, the M.C. would throw a jazz-garter on the floor, point at some lucky fellow, and shout, 'You have ten seconds to find its mate. A packet of cigarettes if you do'.
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- What is jazz garters the plural of?
- Jazz garters is the plural of jazz garter.
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