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Bronx cheer

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bronx cheer/brɒŋksˈtʃɪə(r)/

▶noun N. Amer. informal a sound of derision made by blowing through closed lips with the tongue between them.

– origin 1920s: named after the Bronx in New York.

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