Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of burlecue.
Flapper days and bootleg hootch hysteria / Vaudeville and burley-cue and ooh, la - la / Let yourself go back to days of wah-wah-wah (Singing tune of "Some of These Days" from wings OFF STAGE RIGHT.)
1974, Dick Poston, There Goes The Old Ball Game, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., page 21 more example
The more rarefied world of vaudeville was a considerable step up from this, but even there, as Mae herself noted [...] Secured from unwanted 'Pom Tiddley Om Pom' by her marriage with Wallace, Mae toured the burley-cue circuits[…]
2006 November 14, Simon Louvish, Mae West: It Ain't No Sin, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 38
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