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Tin Pan Alley
noun
: an area in a city where people who write and produce popular music live and work
Full Definition of TIN PAN ALLEY
: a district that is a center for composers and publishers of popular music; also : the body of such composers and publishers
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First Known Use of TIN PAN ALLEY
1908
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