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Definition of: tin-pan alley
(tin′pan′)
1. A street or section of a city frequented by musicians and song writers and occupied by publishers of popular music: originally used to designate a section of New York where cheap, tinny–sounding pianos were supposedly heard in publishers' offices.
2. The composers and publishers of popular music, collectively.
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