sounds emitting from a delinquent boy receiving a woodshedding

The common musical use of the term is b) with the connotation of working on basics, often outside the context of a full group. I might suspect that the specialized barber-shop meaning is a derivation of this rather than a harkening back to the original meaning. I know some barber-shop singers whom I will see next week. I'll try to remember to ask them. Communal memory, E?