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big band
noun
- a jazz or dance band that is the size of an orchestra.
big band
noun
- a large jazz or dance band, popular esp in the 1930s to the 1950s
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Word History and Origins
Origin of big band1
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Example Sentences
“Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” brings the rock chameleon into jazz territory, backed up by a horn-heavy jazz big band.
He did it with a big band, as if he was in his own golden era of old Broadway.
This kind of situation happened over and over again in the big-band years and later during the doo-wop era.
Burleigh says he 'lost his nerve' when they met Red Cloud's big band.
A big band of deer's workin' down this way, and they're like to come out any time.
Once without much difficulty I regularly rounded up a big band of them, so that John Burroughs could look at them.
I were comin' t' my lower tilt, an' when I gets handy t' un what does I see but a big band o' mountaineers around th' tilt.
We both stopped an' looked eround, an' thar stood watchin' us a big band o' wild hawgs.
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