Coordinate term: cannonade

They were getting well up with the Town Hall, in what is now Gardd Street, still the flag floated at the polehead, in token that they had got thus far without serious mishap, and then it had to be run down to the half-mast.

Giving the wench the once-over as she entered, I found myself well able to understand why Bobbie on observing her entangled with [her fiancé] had exploded with so loud a report.

This has lead to a new kind of music snobbery called playlistism. Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm.