LBC HIPesaurus -

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	FALL IN
	an invitation to enter
	"Fall in, daddy!"
	[ Chastity Belt ]

	FALL-OUT
	amazing
	". . . diggin' this wild, crazy fall out scene . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	FAR OUT
	a person, idea, location or event that is out of the ordinary
	". . . but it was so far out he couldn't dig anyone in his cat circle to cut it up with . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	FAR OUT CRAZY GONE UNCOUTH-HEADED CANYON
	an extremely obscure, perhaps unlikely, location
	"You're going to find on one of them pictures, in a far out crazy gone uncouth headed canyon, in a way out valley, the Great Mother Cosmo Head!"
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	FAR SIDE
	the new world
	". . . and it was Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca, The Gasser's misfortune to get with a three ship convoy and a square captain on a short tilt on the far side and blew the whole gig . . ."
	[ The Gasser ]

	FAT BOOK
	great knowledge, great wisdom; this expression probably derives from the term for the book of musical arrangements that contained a jazz band's repertoire. i.e.,)
	"I'm hip you're a big, groovy, swingin' king with a fat book, but I'm gonna knock a page on you."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	FEATHER OVERCOAT
	a bird's feathers
	"And the parrot had the best of the whole lick, he had on that feather overcoat."
	[ The Gasser ]
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	FELL BACK ON HIS KNEES
	prayed
	"He didn't know anything about making an appeal but he fell back on his knees and he made a connection which shook the peninsula."
	[ The Gasser ]

	FENCE OF NOW
	contemporary sensibilities
	". . . it has two fantastic powers--it will take anything from as far back as you can reach and bring it up to the fence of now and over the fence of now."
	[ Prelude ToThe Hip Gan ]

	FIFTY-CENT GIG
	an insignificant project
	"So came a little ol' fifty-cent gig one day . . ."
	[ The Nazz ]

	FIN
	five dollars
	"So, he pressed a fin into her palm . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	FINGER POPPIN'
	being solidly into an activity or state of consciousness
	". . . that one of you mothers is a finger poppin' square and that one is Swingin' Danny McGroo!"
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]

	FIRST ACTION MOVEMENT
	the origin of something
	". . . the zig-zag semantic that was contrived in this first action movement by the slaves many years ago when they wish to discuss thing s that they didn't want the master to get hip to."
	[ Prelude ToThe Hip Gan ]

	FIRST TURN OF THE WHEEL ON THE AXLE
	prehistory
	"We should like to do for you a portrait on the wildest most fantastic emotion since the first turn of the wheel on the axle."
	[ Murder ]
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	FIVE CENTS WORTH OF PAPER AND A NICKEL'S WORTH OF INK
	unexceptional resources
	"They gave that cat five cents' worth of ink and a nickel's worth of paper and he sat down and wrote up such a breeze that when he got through everybody got off."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	FLAPPED
	exhausted
	". . . and everybody beat, bent, flapped, tapped and de-gigged . . ."
	[ The Gasser ]

	FLIP
	a radical change in attitude or thinking
	"When he returned and cooled and dug where he'd been he flipped."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	FLIP BY ON THE BOUND
	run
	"As the children cats flip by on the bound."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	FLIP MY METER
	annoyed me extremely
	"By this lick you have flipped my meter! You nauseous gasser, you endless repeater!!!"
	[ The Raven ]

	FLIPPIN' SO FICCOLO
	fidgety fingers
	"At the end of which hung a silver piccolo/And his fingers were flipping so ficcolo/As if so ready to be blowing upon this piccolo"
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	FLIPSTER
	someone that follows a hip lifestyle, roughly equivalent to "hipster"
	"Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger Poppin' Daddies, knock me your lobes."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]
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	FLIRTING WITH URANIUM
	experimenting with radioactivity, the implication is that the experimenters are doing something more dangerous than they may realize
	"Way down south in the Ural Mountains/ far behind the Iron Curtain/ Ivan and the lads are flirting with uranium/ uranium, it's not geranium."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	FLUNG
	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 ]

	FLY
	desirable
	"He zeroed in on a real fly chick"
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	FLY CHICKS
	angels
	"That sweet, square but swinging maiden whom the fly chicks--that's the angels--tagged Lenore."
	[ The Raven ] +

	FOOL POOL
	a body of water that only a fool would attempt to cross by swimming
	"Man, where is that fool pool the Lord want me to dig?"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	FOUR BIG HITS AND SEVEN LICKS AGO
	four score and seven years (or 87 years)
	"Four big hits and seven licks ago our before daddies set forth on this sweet, groovy land."
	[ The Gettysburg Adress ]

	FOWLIN' PIECE
	a gun for shooting birds
	"And he was standin' there one day on the goof, knockin' a real crazy polish on his ace number one fowlin' piece, you see . . ."
	[ Speak For Yourself, John ]
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	FRAME
	the skeletal system and/or the human body
	"The groovy is often stashed with their frames . . ."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	FREAKISH CHICKS
	wild, off-center women into social situations of a highly experimental nature
	"Real crazy, freakish chicks, you know, two to toothless . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	FREAKS IN CHAIN
	captive people from a conquered nation
	"It is true that he hath returned with many freaks in chains and brought them home to Rome."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	FREAKY
	pertaining to an individual prone to doing unusual things, also an unusual scene
	"Nero was one of the wildest, gonest, freakiest studs who ever stomped through the pages of history!"
	[ Nero ]

	FREE DUES PATRILLO CAT
	the ultimate situation for a union musician: a permanent job and no dues to pay
	"And ere he blew three notes,/Such sweet, cool, coo coo soft notes,/Like a free dues Patrillo cat on a life time gig/That has never yet been heard from a Toscanini's wig."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	FRENCH SEVENTY-FIVE
	a type of W.W.II cannon
	". . . you gotta bring the cat down and lay one on him and you don't know if they're gonna pull out a French Seventy-Five or a Walther..."
	[ H.M. The Policeman ]

	FRONT
	from the beginning
	"I've been bent from in front"
	[ The Nazz ]
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	FULL SWING
	passionate
	"I'm going to give you the most sensational, supersonic, full swing kiss of your life!"
	[ Amos and Andy ]

	FUZZ
	cops
	"Man, there was fuzz walking . . . fuzz riding . . . fuzz to the left . . . fuzz to the right . . . fuzz digging the fuzz . . ."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]