subs. (American).—Talk; chatter; oratory. Cf., CHIN-WAG. The French say casser un mot.
1872. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), Roughing It, p. 332. The thing I’m now on is to roust out somebody to jerk a little CHIN-MUSIC for us.
1874. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), The Gilded Age. Whereupon a young sprig … began to sass [sauce] the conductor with his CHIN-MUSIC.
1876. BESANT and RICE, The Golden Butterfly, ch. xxvi. ‘I am not,’ said he, ‘going to orate. You did not come here, I guess, to hear me pay out CHIN-MUSIC.’
1883. Bread-Winners, 77. If we have joined this order to listen to CHIN-MUSIC the rest of our lives.
