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Jewish piano
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English
Etymology
From the row of keys on a cash register and the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.
Pronunciation
en En-au-Jewish piano.ogg AU
Noun
en slang offensive A cash register.
en Jewish typewriter
en The Virginia Reel Lynchburg, Virginia Published by The Virginia Reel Board, at the University of Virginia [...] September 1921 II 1 2 https://books.google.com/books?id=8PFKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2&dq=%22jewish+piano%22+%22cash+register%22+Virginia+reel 5090641 I want to buy a Jewish piano.What's that?Cash register.
en 2003 Time Between Trains, Stories by Anthony Bukoski Anthony Bukoski 22 Seeing Joe Rubin, someone would yell to Ogy, the bartender, as he rang up a cash register sale, "Play that Jewish piano, Ogy. Make the Jewish piano sing.
en Antisemitism