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crate-dig

verb

Etymology

From crate + dig, first attested in 2005.

  1. derived from *dʰeygʷ-✻
  2. derived from *dīkaz✻ — “pool, puddle; dyke, ditch”
  3. derived from *dīkōn✻
  4. derived from dīcian — “to dig a ditch, mound up earth”
  5. inherited from diggen
  6. formed as crate-dig — “crate + dig”

Definitions

  1. To shop for vintage, rare, or otherwise obscure recordings, especially by looking through…

    To shop for vintage, rare, or otherwise obscure recordings, especially by looking through crates containing secondhand merchandise.

    • There’s definitely a nonzero chance that samples from this record might be found in ’90s releases from DJ Shadow and his fellow crate-digging beat miners.

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