ad-lib

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(lede) by everyone (3.1 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Feb 12 2000 at 20:39:21

To speak or to play a piece of music without preparation;
improvise;
as, Most of his speech was ad-libbed.
Latin ad libitum (at one's pleasure).

(idea) by The Cow (4.1 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Nov 22 2000 at 14:02:38

Also, when capitalised (Ad-Lib) the name of an ancient standard in computer music, which is pre-Sound Blaster. This died a death when Windoze came along, with it's Windows Sound System which is probably the only Good Thing that Microsoft ever came up with.

Extemporanean	ad lib	Sterling Holloway	General MIDI
Roy Batty	Flip ya for real	Jackie Gleason	Advice for dealing with children
THX sound system	I Dream of Jeannie	Soylent Green	Let the motherfucker burn
D	Windoze	Lost in translation	Mad Libs
The Beatles	Bravado	12 Monkeys	Macintosh File System
Updating my 1993 Subaru Impreza's sound system	Statik Sound System	Windows 95 Operating System Components	street vendor

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