gut·buck·et

[guht-buhk-it]
noun
jazz played in the raucous and high-spirited style of barrelhouse.

Origin:
1925–30; gut + bucket

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gutbucket (ˈɡʌtˌbʌkɪt) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a highly emotional style of jazz playing
 
[C20: from US gutbucket a cheap gambling saloon where musicians could play for hand-outs]

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Gutbucket is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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.
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gutbucket definition

[ˈgətbəkɪt]
  1. n.
    a chamber pot, especially one used in a prison cell. (See also gash bucket.) : You got something around here I can use as a gutbucket?
  2. n.
    a toilet; a makeshift toilet. : Where's the gutbucket around here?
  3. n.
    the stomach. : Sam poked Pete right in the gutbucket.
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In his baritone phrasing, thick, romantic tones rose up from the gutbucket into wide clouds of lyricism.
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