"gayola" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "gay + -ola",
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          "ref": "1998, The American Journey: Derived from retrieving the American past",
          "text": "Every one of the bars that testified against the police department during the gayola inquiry was shut down.",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Journal of the History of Sexuality",
          "text": "Policing power over gay bars was thus shifted from the SFPD's beat officers to the mayor and the chief of police. In the wake of the gayola scandal Mayor Christopher launched an offensive against homosexual drinking establishments.",
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          "ref": "2008, William N. Eskridge Jr., Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003, Penguin",
          "text": "One reporter asked the attorneys involved in one of the gayola prosecutions whether “gay bars” were acceptable.",
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        "The practice of American police departments extorting bribes from gay bars, especially in the 1950s and 60s, in return for not raiding them; such a bribe."
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        "(chiefly historical) The practice of American police departments extorting bribes from gay bars, especially in the 1950s and 60s, in return for not raiding them; such a bribe."
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      "rhymes": "-əʊlə"
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  "word": "gayola"
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          "ref": "2006, Journal of the History of Sexuality",
          "text": "Policing power over gay bars was thus shifted from the SFPD's beat officers to the mayor and the chief of police. In the wake of the gayola scandal Mayor Christopher launched an offensive against homosexual drinking establishments.",
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        "(chiefly historical) The practice of American police departments extorting bribes from gay bars, especially in the 1950s and 60s, in return for not raiding them; such a bribe."
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