Entry · catalog no. 1074

frolic pad

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noun · Harlem, New York ·

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A place of entertainment — a club, a theater, a spot where the night gets spent.

“Every frolic pad on Lenox was packed that Saturday.”

Origin & Attribution

From Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary (1938): "place of entertainment, theater, nightclub." Built on pad, the older jive word for a room or a bed, which outlived it.

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Midwest

N.East

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Nationwide / diaspora

Harlem, New York ·

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26 yrs

ahead of the mainstream

60/100

peak cultural energy

Introduced to English by the culture — logged here before the mainstream caught on.

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Citations & Sources

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Cab Calloway, Hepster's Dictionary: A Guide to the Language of Jive — dictionary · 1938

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