big band

noun
a jazz or dance band that is the size of an orchestra.
Compare combo.


Origin:
1925–30

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big band
 
n
a large jazz or dance band, popular esp in the 1930s to the 1950s

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
Example sentences
Big band in the afternoon, and opera in the evening.
Slip on your dancing shoes and join us for dancing to live, big band music.
Their big band medley was lively and fun, and filled with deceptively difficult
  skills.
The supper club offers nightly dancing alongside jazz, swing and big band
  orchestras.
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