[Ads-l] Antedating of "Far Out" (Avant-Garde or Excellent)

[Shapiro, Fred]

far out (OED, b., 1954 [8 Nov.])

1954 San Francisco Chronicle 30 May 1B/1 (Newspapers.com)

Some far-out wanderings by pianist [Theolonius] Monk, tenor man Sonny Rollings and French horn player Julius Watkins.

Fred Shapiro

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