swingstern.
/ˈswɪŋstə/ slang.
= swinger n.3 3a.
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faker1903
swing man1903
honky-tonker1910
Chicagoan1924
stomper1925
Dixielander1927
modernist1932
swinger1934
ride man1935
all-star1937
swingster1937
hamfat1938
mouldy fig1945
traditionalist1949
trad1951
West Coaster1954
mainstreamer1961
soulster1961
New Thinger1964
1937 Nebraska State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 22 Aug. cd-9/4 Swingsters got the best touch of feet-itch of the season.
1946 Jazz Writings 19/2 Holmes' jazz is ‘grown~up’ jazz—as opposed to the ‘adolescent’ jazz of the swingsters.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xxii. 307 It was an old war in jazz; it had not been declared by the swingsters or the boppers.
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