licorice stick
Slang for clarinet
A licorice stick is an old slang term for a clarinet, from the instrument's black wooden body resembling a stick of licorice candy.
The term belongs to early jazz vocabulary: He plays a mean licorice stick.
Less commonly, it refers to an actual stick of licorice root chewed as a treat.
anise
Licorice-flavored seed plant
- chewyResisting easy biting
- confectionerySugary foods or their shop
- sweetTasting of sugar
treat · snack · salted · rope · wheel · allsorts · fennel · sambuca · ouzo · jelly bean
woodwind
Blown orchestral instrument type
- reedVibrating sliver for woodwinds
- mouthpieceOne who speaks officially
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
swing · orchestra · bebop · big band · blues · improvisation · solo · glissando · squeak · embouchure
- licoriceTwizzlers, Red Vines, Good and Plenty, allsorts
- musical instrument nicknamesaxe, fiddle, ivories, skins, six-string
instrument family
licorice stickbrass instruments
Metal tubes played by buzzing lips
trumpet · trombone · tuba · flute · percussion
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