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Bazoo

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn. Canada, US, dated

    "It goes against the grain to toot one’s own “bazoo”"

  2. 2
    A person's mouth. US, slang

    "If any galoot in the mob knows of anything that mout block the game ef tuk to a higher court, let him now toot his bazoo, or else keep his jaw to himself now and forever more."

Etymology

Probably from Dutch bazuin (“trumpet”). First attested in the mid 19th c..

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