n. one's face. : With a map like that, she could really go somewhere.
n. sheet music. (Jazz musicians. See also chart.) : I left the map at home. Can I look at yours?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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put on the map
Make famous, publicize, as in The incident got on the national news and put our community on the map. This expression, alluding to a locality that formerly was too small to put on a map, dates from the early 1900s.
