LBC HIPesaurus - C

C

	CALENDAR SUIT
	naked
	"If Marilyn Monroe was to walk by in her calendar suite, I'd have to take a rain check, cause man, I couldn't lift my head."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	CAT
	a human male, see also Stud
	". . . a little cat with a bent frame."
	[ The Nazz ]

	CAT CIRCLE
	collegues
	"Here and there a cat would dig it, but it was so far out he couldn't dig anyone in his cat circle to cut it up with."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	CATERPILLAR SANDWICH
	a highly unappetizing food
	"They'd eat a caterpillar sandwich like you or I do ham 'n' eggs."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	CATHEDRAL HEAD OF BEAUTY
	an incredible sense of well being and positive mindedness
	"That swings my soul up in a great cathedral head of beauty."
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	CAUGHT
	killed
	"A freak caught him with a cheap pistol and a bad but deadly bullet."
	[ Prelude ToThe Hip Gan ]

	CHARGE
	excitement
	"Ooh man! This is a great charge."
	[ Martin's Horse ]
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	CHECKERS CHECKED CHECK THE CHECKERS CHECK, CHECK, CHECK
	obsessively going over the status quo to make sure that catastrophe hasn't befallen while your attention wandered
	"I've had this whole thing checked, you see. And rechecked, and had the checkers checked check the checkers check ,check, check."
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	CHEESE AND CRACKER PARTIES
	something running rampant
	"Rats, they flipped the dogs and knocked out the cats, and nipped the babies in their cradles, and held cheese and cracker parties right in the vats and swooped up the soup from the cook cats own ladles . . ."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	CHEW THAT GUM
	do something forbidden
	"It was a large family of sheep, there were ten of them, there was nine of them was white and one poor little sheep was black and the mother was pink and the father was blue and the green sheep of the family point to the poor little black sheep and says 'That's the one, that's the one that stays out late, that's the one that chews that gum, that's the one that won't always talk to you when you talk to him.'"
	[ Baa Baa Blacksheep ]

	CHICK
	a human female
	". . . composed of chicks carefully woven together."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	CHILLY
	cooler than cool
	". . . Jack, he was really chilly, he was so cool."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ] ¶

	CHOMPIN' ON HIS CRAZY PILLS
	getting into a decadent mindset
	". . . he's juicin' up a storm, chompin' on his crazy pills"
	[ Nero ]

	CHOMPIN' UP ON
	eating
	"There, sitting on a small beat-up rock was two studs chompin' up on a can of beans . . ."
	[ Scrooge ]
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	CHOP-BEATING SESSION
	an event in which speeches are given
	"We's here to dig this chop-beating session on the site of the worst jazz blown in the entire issue: Gettys- Mother Burg"
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	CHOPPERS
	teeth
	"All the little boys and girls with the rosy wigs/And coo coo curls and sparkling peepers/And choppers like pearls, flipping and skipping swunmerrily after,/this wonderful jazz with shouting and laughter."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	CHRISTIAN CATS
	early practitioners of Christianity
	"Don't bug me with the Christian Cats, let them goof off anyway they want to!"
	[ Nero ]

	CHRISTIAN SNATCHERS
	Roman soldiers assigned to arresting and transporting Christians to the Coliseum
	"And out go the Christian snatchers."
	[ Nero ] <

	CHRISTMAS DINNERS
	fantastic and delightful foods
	" . . . in the middle of which stood a banquet table that was loaded with Goody City. It had a hundred and twenty-two Japanese Ring Ding dinners and a hundred and seventy-seven Christmas Dinners . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	CINERAMA HEAD
	a Hollywood movie star
	"So I played it cool and cased them looking for that Hollywood type of cinerama-head, but none of them made that category."
	[ James Dean (Message to the Teenagers)]

	CIRCUS
	describing something fun, happy or joyful
	"He cut inside and picked up on twelve long, lean multi-colored, chiblin, circus day, delicate style, beautiful balanced pony whips"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	CIVIL DRAG
	a civil war
	"Now we're hung with a king-sized main day civil drag."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]
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	CLAMS
	units of money, usually US dollars
	"Oh, it ain't going to cost nothing, like some like little old two million clams."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	CLOUD PUSHIN' MOTHER
	a tall structure
	". . . it was a wall about eleven-hundred-damn-ninety-two foot high. A cloud-pushin' mother . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	COLONY CATS
	early British settlers in North America
	"You know history book didn't carry all that went down with them colony cats, 'cause they was pretty stompin' cats all the way through."
	[ Speak For Yourself, John ]

	COME ON LIKE KINSEY
	to suffer the burden of controversy, in reference to Alfred Kinsey's famous but highly devisive report on American sexual mores
	"Is it hipper for the wig to dig the flips and drags of the wheel of fortune or to come on like Kinsey against this mass mess . . ."
	[ To Swing Or Not To Swing ]

	CONCRETE WIG
	a hangover
	". . . what with vodka and Russian Benzedrine, he's smashed out in the silk with a concrete wig . . ."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	CONNECT
	ability to make something happen
	"He could not connect."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	CONVERSATIONAL PUTTY
	a phrase to help gloss over the actual intent of a communication
	". . . searching his mind for a piece of conversational putty to present this to Her Majesty in such a way that he won't have to chase her all over the blasted courtyard."
	[ Chastity Belt ]
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	COOL
	applied to some person, place, object or event that is great or commands respect; also a person or other creature that appears very relaxed under pressure
	"And The Nazz say 'I told you to stay cool, didn't I, babies?'"
	[ The Nazz ]

	COOL THE GOOSE
	to kill a goose and prepare it for dinner
	"I want to go home and cool the goose."
	[ Scrooge ] <

	COOLED
	a situation that has been fixed, "Getting some dough cooled his living strain." [from "The Hip Einie"], also a person that has relaxed and come to his senses
	". . . when he returned and cooled and dug what he brought back with him he flipped."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	COPOUT
	a person so annoying that extreme measures are contemplated
	"The copout is a kind of a chap that you have around once in a while, sometimes for many years, that you want to kill him. But you just can't quite get to it."
	[ Maharajah ]

	COUNT THE SAND
	to do meaningless work
	"A cat can fall back and relax and enjoy himself without some stud say: Count the sand!"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	COVERED
	taken care of
	"It's all right, you see, because you've got everything covered."
	[ Subconscious Mind ]

	CRACK
	be included in
	"This'll crack every paper in the nation baby . . ."
	[ Martin's Horse ]
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	CREDILEYS
	a Buckleyism meaning a fancy holiday food
	"And Scrooge look around and sees the joint is loaded with apples and bananas and oranges and credileys and acrovats and ripalips and all kinds of crazy, wild grapes and crazy Christmas scenes and nuts and candy . . . "
	[ Scrooge ]

	CROCODILE CITY
	an environment with a large number of crocodiles
	"And Florida in Fifteen Hundred and Ten was Crocodile City."
	[ The Gasser ]

	CUKCOO
	an affirmation
	"Baby, let's cut up to my pad . . . and have ourselves a ball. She said 'Cukcoo.'"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	CUKCOO ATTIRE
	fanciful clothes
	"His long zoot coat from stompers to head /Was half of yellow and half of red . . . /He so gassed them they were moved To admire this way out cat in his cukcoo attire."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	CUT
	to leave
	"The cat cut!"
	[ Nero ]

	CUT IT UP
	to analyze something
	"Here and there a cat would dig it, but it was so far out he couldn't dig anyone in his cat circle to cut it up with . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	CUT OUT
	to die
	"The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after they've cut out."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]
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