LBC HIPesaurus - B

B

	BAD JAZZ
	evil deeds, negative actions
	" . . . of the bad jazz of the atomic age."
	[ James Dean's (Message To The Teenagers) ]

	BAD RAP
	to speak poorly of someone
	". . . and they bad rapped the poor cat every step of the way."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	BALL
	to party, also heard in such classic rock and roll songs as Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly: 'Good Golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball . . .' and Rip It Up: 'We're gonna rip it up . . . gonna ball it up . . .', the verb pops up in tons of contemporaneous songs and in 1940s movie dialogue.
	"He's the kind of a cat that balled every big swingin' main day breeze, all the time every day."
	[ Nero ] +

	BANK OF COMPENSATION
	a recompense for enduring tremendous hardship
	". . . for the Negroes there are many banks, and one of the great banks is the Bank of Compensation and the divine, beautiful, warm swinging American Negroes had to laugh at so many things for so long that were not funny as a consequence they deepened the wells of their humor until it sparkles with a beauty that makes it endless in it's depth and sacred in its clarity."
	[ Prelude ToThe Hip Gan ]

	BEANS
	money
	"He saved his beans."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	BEAUTY SPIN
	being in love
	". . . out of this beauty spin came . . . a boy and a girl."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	BED OF HIGH SENSUOUS CONSEQUENCE
	locale for a major sexual encounter
	"he knew she was a square, he knew she was an octagonhead and he knew it was the wrong thing to do, to put such a square chick as she was up against such a tight stud as he was on the bed of high sensuous consequence. . . and they bad rapped the cat every step of the way."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	BEFORE DADDIES
	forefathers
	"Four big hits and seven licks ago, our before daddies swung forth upon this sweet groovy land, . . .'"
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	BENDIN' END
	ultimate, something that went all the way to the end , bent around and headed back again
	". . . but this is the bendin' end."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	BENT
	crippled
	". . . a little cat with a bent frame"
	[ The Nazz ]

	BENZEDRINE FLOAT
	a Buckley fantasy concoction used slyly as a drug reference in his Amos and Andy routine on the Ed Sullivan show.
	". . . and a very new California drink called a Benzedrine Float."
	[ Amos and Andy ]

	BIG HEATER
	The sun
	"You go on out to latitude 777 and longitude 444 and get out there at the unveiling of the big heater."
	[ The Hip Einie ] ¬

	BIG LAW
	the United States constitution
	". . . and that the Big Law, of you straights, by you studs and for your kitties, shall not be scratched from the big race."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	BIG MONEY MIND GOIN' ON IN HIS WIG
	someone obsessed with thoughts of money
	"Scrooge is going along in his loose soul, and his loose clothes and his hard cash box and his big money mind going on in his wig."
	[ Scrooge ] <
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	BIG WHITE WING
	a native American interpretation of the sails on a 16th century European sailing vessel
	"You got big white wing."
	[ The Gasser ]

	BILLBOARDS IN THE GRAVEYARD
	tombstones
	"And he reads one of them billboards in the graveyard."
	[ Scrooge ]

	BILLED
	to be given a hard time, put through a lot of changes
	"Your Majesty, I've been billed, willed and twilled, I've been flung, wanged and looned, but I never dug no jazz like this last riff you put me on."
	[ The Gasser ]

	BIND
	trouble
	"It seems every time I found myself in a bind nothing mystic came to help me."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	BIRCH AND ROD STORE
	a place where one could obtain devices for use in an S& M session
	"And they just happened to pass the Birch and Rod Store"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	BLACK JAZZ
	evil intent
	"Leave no feather on my heather take your black jazz, blow together."
	[ The Raven ]

	BLOW
	to perform or to profess
	"What's the cat blow?"
	[ The Hip Einie ] ^
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	BLOW MY STACK
	get angry
	"Screw, before I blow my stack back to your Plutonian Shore."
	[ The Raven ]

	BLOW THE GIG
	to fail miserably
	"They had a square captain that ran into a short tilt and blew the whole gig . . ."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	BLOWED UP BULL
	a huge bull
	"Out come a big lion 'bout four times the size of a blowed up bull."
	[ Nero ]

	BLOWING HIS GOLD
	spending prodigious amounts of money
	"He's blowing his gold!"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	BLUBBERY RUGS
	the insides of a whale, see also MASS MESS
	"And all of a sudden he fell down on these blubbery rugs . . ."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	BOARD OF DIRECTORS
	all the mental faculties, called on in time of crisis
	"I want a meeting of the board of directors, I want one right now.""
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	BOOK KICKS
	powerful truth found in a book
	"The greatest gasser of all spearhead book kicks is, let me hip you, volume 17, series 4, yearbook of physics one nine hundred and jumpin' five!"
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	BOOT SOUP
	utter and devastating poverty
	"It was so light that he was about to dig some boot soup, when a buddy cat hipped him they needed a boy at Berne in the Idea Factory."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	BRANG-DOWN ATTITUDE
	sadness
	"And in years that swung after, If you were to blame his brang down attitude, He used to say, "Ah, it's a real solid drag In our town since my play cats cut out. "
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +

	BREAD
	money
	"Without bread a stud can't even rule an anthill."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	BREATHING IN STACCATO TO KEEP THE PILOT LIGHT LIT
	rapid, shallow breathingin an attempt to hang on to life
	"My buddy cats and me was in such a bind we were breathing in staccato to keep the pilot light lit."
	[ The Gasser ]

	BREEZE
	A sort of commotion or happening
	"Five thousand slaves come down with five thousand torches and lit up the crosses and five thousand Christians started to wail up the biggest breeze and most insane orchestration you ever dug in all your born days."
	[ Nero ]

	BRING DOWN
	a major disappointment
	"And that coming right after a big bug sized bring down from the Nazis put on him . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	BRINGING THEM IN
	saving lives
	"The Gasser was a warrior cat: he'd been talkin' them out, not bringing them in."
	[ The Gasser ]

	BUDDY CAT
	a close friend
	". . . a buddy cat hipped him they need a boy down at Berne in the Idea Factory."
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	BUG
	to annoy
	"Don't bug me with them Christian Cats, let them goof off anyway they want too."
	[ Nero ]

	BUG SIZED BRING DOWN
	a huge amount of trouble
	". . . after a big bug sized bring down that the Nazis put on him."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	BUGBIRD, THE
	Buckley's name for Edgar Allen Poe's heavy in The Raven. The bugbird is a symbol of death in both Poe's piece and Buckley's reworking of it.
	"Flip the Bugbird, nevermore!"
	[ The Raven ]

	BUGGED OUT
	enlarged or bulging
	". . . walked away with his eyes buggin' out."
	[ The Nazz ]

	BULGIN' LEGAL EYES
	to desperately want to get married
	"Miles Standish had great bulgin' legal eyes for Priscilla"
	[ Hip Hiwatha ] <

	BUMP
	to discover
	"He say 'De Gama bump island number one, put it in the book."
	[ The Gasser ]