frolic pad
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]frolic pad (plural frolic pads)
- (dated, jive talk) Nightclub; dancehall; theater.
- [1939, Cab Calloway, Cab Calloway's Hepster's Dictionary:
- FROLIC PAD (N) — place of entertainment, theater, nightclub.]
- 1944 December 8, “Broadway Jam Session”, in The Tampa Times:
- Louie wants you to get in there and lay yo' racket on that writin' machine so all the fine dinners and gates up in the land o' darkness will be hep and truck on down to this frolic pad 'cause the joint's really gonna be jumpin' and everythin' will be fine as wine like watermelon on the vine.