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Shooting the agate

Posted by ESC on September 30, 2010 at 19:58

Shooting the agate -- as related by Jelly Roll Morton. The phrase refers to New Orleans pimps who strutted in a distinctive style with arms at their sides and index fingers extended. "In Search of the Blues" by Marybeth Hamilton, Page 164.

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