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nounagony-pipe (plural agony-pipes)
plural agony-pipes
- jazz slangA clarinet.
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...
1957, Metronome, volume 74, page 17
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