LBC HIPesaurus -

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	HALLELUJAH MORNING
	a glorious day
	"Now the Great Lord was sitting in his rosy rockin' chair one hallelujah morning . . ."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	HANGER
	an undesirable situation
	"Oh, it's a hanger. Abe wouldn't dig that jazz"
	[ Supermarket ]

	HAPPY PARTY CAT
	someone who really enjoys life
	"Don't bug me with them Christians, will ya now please, I'm a happy party cat, I don't want to hear about no Christians. . ."
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	HAPPY TIME KING
	party-loving monarch
	"And Ferdinand the First of Spain was a happy-time king. He likes to see the chicks jumpin' and the juice flowin' and the good time goin'... . . ."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	HARD-SOUNDED THE LAST 'NTH BONG OF THE BELL OF THEIR BELLS
	sacrifiiced their life
	"That from all these ace-stamped studs we double our love kick to that righteous ride for which these cats hard-sounded the last nth bong of the bell of their bell."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	HASSLE SITE
	a battlefield
	". . . the before mentioned hassle site. . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	HEAD PRAETORIAN STUD
	the leader of the Roman Legions
	". . . and he show it to the Head Praetorian Stud, and the Head Praetorian Stud take one look and his eyes light up . . ."
	[ Nero ]
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	HEAT CITY
	hell
	"For it is the swinger that will take you to The Garden or to Heat City."
	[ Is This The Sticker? ]

	HEATER
	a gun
	"Two heaters blazed in the dark."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	HEAVY HEADED
	a serious minded, perhaps, melancholy person
	"I dug sweet old swinging, non-stop, heavy-headed sweet Abe."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	HERO IN EVIL
	a malevolent personality who excels in their efforts
	"It's about a hero in evil."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	HIGH AS A PIGEON
	far above the ground
	"And they hung Hezekiah as high as a pigeon."
	[ Black Cross ]

	HIGH BALLIN' STUD
	a man with serious sexual prowess and interest
	". . . for he knew it would be a mistake to put a square chick like her up against a high-ballin' stud like himself on the bed of high sensuous consequence without giving the chick a little tune-up first . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	HIMAL'YAS
	icy mountains
	". . . and the cool Himal'yas swung you in with a beat you 'most could hear."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +
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	HIP
	knowledgeable
	"He was a real hip cat."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	HIPLEYVILLE
	a state of day dreaming
	"And suddenly your mind goes over to Hippleyville and you start thinking about a beautiful girl . . ."
	[ Subconscious Mind ]

	HIPPED THE TREASURY
	added to the state treasury
	"Yea, the looty was booty and hipped the treasury well."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	HIPPETY ISLANDS
	an imaginary archipelago
	". . . I thought we was off the Hippety Islands and here we are just five minutes from the Panama Canal"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	HIPSEMANTIC
	Lord Buckley's term for the language he utilized in his routines. Hipsemantic is a stunningly poetic and highly idiomatic style of English derived from the dialect favored by black jazz musicians of the '20s - '50s. It is believed that this dialect, in turn, is most likely an evolution of the coded language used in the fields by slaves desiring to keep their communications amongst themselves. His Lordship revered this patois and referred to it as "the language of the American Beauty Negro." He also used the term "the Semantic of the Hip."
	"As translated into the Hipsemantic."
	[ Studs Terkel Interview, 1960 ]

	HISTORY CAT
	historical figure
	"Now, you heard about Vasca de Gama, the island bumper. He was a history cat with a big fat press agent."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	HIT THE STREETS
	became generally available
	"When this book hit the streets, it hit the spacehead cats hard."
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	HOLD OUTS
	those who don't give it their all
	"Let me hip you to somethin'... when you make love, MAKE IT! Oh, Some of you brothers and sisters - holdouts!!"
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	HOME IN A HOME IN A HOME, HOME
	extremely comfortable, in the right spot
	". . . you feel right in there tight, like a home in a home in a home, home"
	[ Subconscious Mind ]

	HONE OF THE SCONE
	at death's door
	"And the buddy cat that he's askin' to get straight is in very delicate condition indeed. He is not on the razor's edge; he's on the hone of the scone. That's a wing-fittin' station, y'understand . . ."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	HONEY-TASTIN'
	delicious
	"And in the other a big, thick loaf of that gone, crazy, honey-tastin', nonstop, sweet, swingin Southern Bread."
	[ The Nazz ]

	HONEYDEW CRY
	a powerful and intoxicating smell or sound
	"With a kind of a honeydew cry comin' from it."
	[ God's Own Drunk ]

	HOOKED
	dedicated, highly interested in or addicted to something
	"He's really diggin' this scene, man, he's so hooked for what's he sees jumpin' out there, as a matter of fact he's diggin' it so hard he's got big bulgin' eyes . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	HORN
	a musical instrument, usually a trumpet or saxophone
	". . . and he called for Gabe to put down his horn and swing with the book."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]
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	HUNG
	sorrowful
	"Groovily I wooed the morrow; still hung, I sought to borrow from my book kicks to knock the sorrow."
	[ The Raven ] +

	HUNG UP
	delayed by
	". . . I got hung up in an old junker car going to Las Vegas, Nevada."
	[ H-Bomb ]