burleycue

English

Noun

burleycue (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of burlecue
   • 1974, Dick Poston, There Goes The Old Ball Game, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., page 2:

     Flapper days and bootleg hootch hysteria / Vaudeville and burley-cue and ooh, la - la / Let yourself go back to days of wah-wah-wah (Singing tune of "Some of These Days" from wings OFF STAGE RIGHT.)

   • 2006 November 14, Simon Louvish, Mae West: It Ain't No Sin, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 38:

     The more rarefied world of vaudeville was a considerable step up from this, but even there, as Mae herself noted [...] Secured from unwanted 'Pom Tiddley Om Pom' by her marriage with Wallace, Mae toured the burley-cue circuits […]