LBC HIPesaurus -

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	G'S
	units of one thousand, usually referring to money; also a measurement of gravity
	". . . asking me how I would like to pick up on 4 1/2 G's."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	GAG
	a lie
	"Some claim that Brutus's story was a gag."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	GARDEN
	heaven
	"For it is the swinger that will take you to the garden or to heat city."
	[ Is This The Sticker? ]

	GAS
	bring a great deal of satisfaction to
	"But lips where his kicks shown out and in/ No cat could dig his kith or kin/ He so gassed them they were moved/ To admire this way out cat in his coo coo attire."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	GAS HIM BACK
	return the favor
	"So, naturally, in return, they want to gas him back."
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	GAS UP
	get drunk
	"When they gassed up, I gassed up, too; I figured if I was going to lose I'd be happy."
	[ KPFA Interview With Bill Butler - 9-16-59 ] +

	GASLIGHT SPOOK
	to drive somebody crazy, this phrase is derived from the 1944 classic film Gaslight starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in which Boyer does a number on Bergman.
	". . . he's a far out spook, he's a gaslight spook."
	[ Scrooge ] /
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	GASSED
	crazed
	"Now they say that the creek cat was gassed with the juice."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	GATE
	someone who is hip and tuned in; Mezz Mezzrow observed that gates were gates because they swung
	". . . and the gate that rocked at the eighty-eight was blowin' 'How High the Moon'."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]

	GIG
	a job or event
	". . . and they find out the same gig is goin' there."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ] +

	GIGGIN'
	working
	"He sat down and he wailed a note on Ferdinand the First to hip the cat that he's still giggin' for him."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	GIGLESS
	without employment
	"Now here was a cat who carried so much wiggage he was gigless."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	GIN JOINT
	a bar or club usually of a lower class nature
	"They're sitting in a little gin joint on the petty coats of Paris."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GNASHER
	a wolf
	"The gnasher's mad wail caused you many a take."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +
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	GOD'S OWN DRUNK
	a fearless human due to intake of alcohol
	"I was God's own drunk!"
	[ God's Own Drunk ]

	GOD'S SWEET LANTERNS
	the stars
	". . . and god's sweet lanterns a hangin' in the sky."
	[ God's Own Drunk ]

	GOLD
	money
	"Now he knew this chick didn't have no gold. So, he pressed a fin into her palm . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GOLD SHORTS
	condition of being poor
	"He was suffering from the gold shorts in front."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	GOLDEN DIKES
	a protective barrier fueled by monetary resources
	"And he's a multi, multi, mother multi-millionaire. He's the kind of a cat surrounded with golden dikes."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GOLDEN EYES OF LOVE
	the healing power of Jesus of Nazareth
	". . . and put the golden eyes of love on this here little kiddie."
	[ The Nazz ]

	GOLDEN MOUNTAIN OPAL
	a beautiful object
	"It laid there just like a beautiful mountain opal"
	[ God's Own Drunk ]
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	GONE
	descriptive of an exceptional experience, object, person or event
	"Isn't this wild, isn't this crazy, ain't this gone, this sure is!"
	[ Nero ]

	GOODY-CITY
	tremendous spread of delicious food
	". . . in the middle which stood a banquet table that was loaded with Goody City!"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GOOF
	perform mental exploration
	"He goofed through the Gonesphere."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	GOOFIN' ON HIS EYEBROWS
	fixating on an object, possibly in an altered mental state
	". . . he was goofin' on his eyebrows."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	GOT OFF
	felt very good, got high
	". . . give the cat 5 cents worth of ink and five cents worth of paper and that's all she wrote--everybody got off!"
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	GOURMET HEAD
	an aficionado of superb food
	"He said, 'Well, I know you gourmet head. So, I got something prepared for you that's wild.'"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GRAPEVINE
	a word of mouth communication system
	"Finally this great lick started to spark the spacehead grapevine"
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	GREAT COSMO HEADED SWINGER
	an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction usually associated with a nuclear explosion
	". . . in an uncouth headed chasm, was the longest neon tube these cats ever dug in their life: The Great Cosmo Headed Swinger."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	GREAT MASTER
	the Lord Jehovah
	"The Great Master was sitting in his rocking one hallelujah morning."
	[ The Sinner And The Cash Box (Club 7 Appearance) ]

	GREAT NECKLACE OF LOVE
	a tremendous feeling of love shared by a group of people
	". . . and a great necklace of love is superchargin' and chargin' to 'em . . ."
	[ The Nazz ]

	GREAT SWEET SWINGING GROOVY DOUBLE CLUTCHING HIGH NON STOP PINE TOP GO OF ALL DOUBLE SWINGS IN BEAUTY
	a phrase addressed to one to the object on one's devotion
	"And when the scene was all over, Mr. Rabadee, the India Patrillo, he swing over to the Hip Gan, and he do a nice swingin' bow and he say, 'Oh, great sweet swinging groove double clutching high non stop pine top go of all double swings in beauty'"
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	GREEDHEADS
	greedy people
	"We've got to knock out the greedheads."
	[ Supermarket ]

	GREEN EYED
	jealous
	". . . and the neighbors get green eyed, report the cat and bad rap him every step of the way."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	GREEN SHEEP
	envious people
	"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 ]
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	GREENERY
	money
	"There's so much greenery in the chapels of our provincial country"
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	GROOVE
	go about enjoying one's life
	"You groove your way. I'll groove mine."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	GROOVY
	describing a person, event, thing or object that is very pleasing or satisfying
	"He was such a sweet, groovy cat . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]