LBC HIPesaurus -

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	LAID IT DOWN AND LEFT IT THERE
	sacrificed their lives
	". . . and the fine Cats who laid it down and left it there . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	LANKY LINC
	Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States of America
	"Lanky Linc, that's what they called him."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	LAY
	to perform an act
	"Lay a roach on the Lord!"
	[ Vaughn Marlowe Inerview (quoting Lord Buckley) ]

	LAY BACK
	get into
	"He proceeded to lay back into the longest goof in the history of that far out wig stretch."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	LAY ONE ON HIM
	present someone with something, as in giving a traffic ticket
	". . . 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 ]

	LAY YOUR GOLD OUT
	spend your money
	"You know how to lay your gold out, man, live it up, that' what we say."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	LEAD-TAILED CATS
	the effects of increased gravity
	"I couldn't lift my head. Don't fight the ship . . . man. I'm fighting to get all these lead-tailed cats off my back . . . "
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
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	LEAN
	not doing a good job, falling short
	". . . another stud jumpin' at the same time, with a lean press agent, who cut this first cat to shreds. . . ."
	[ The Gasser ]

	LEAPIN'
	euphemistic expletive
	"Fifteen hundred and leapin' ten."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	LEGAL EYES
	a desire to marry
	"Say, well, he wants me to tell you that he's got great leapin' bulgin' legal eyes for you."
	[ Speak For Yourself, John ]

	LEGAL MOVE
	marriage
	"He made the legal move with her."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	LEVANTINE CAT
	a Jewish man
	"Just what I thought, some far out Levantine cat gonna get you way out on a long, thin limb and snap it off."
	[ The Hip Einie ] *

	LEVEL
	equal
	". . . that all Cats and Kitties, Red, White, or Blue, are created level in front."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	LICK
	someone's methods or philosophy; in music a short melody line
	"Now not diggin' these cats lick."
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	LIGHT
	inconsequential, easy or of little importance
	"And he finally got on a light boot repair kick."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	LION, THE
	the empire of Great Britain
	"you see India was bugged with The Lion"
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	LITTLE CATS
	children
	"Close after him the little cats pressed, cool was the kicks in every breast."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +

	LIVING STRAIN
	expenses and/or responsibilities
	". . . to ease his living strain."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	LOBES
	ears
	"Hipsters, Flipsters and Finger-poppin' daddies, knock me your lobes."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	LONG STASH
	remember for a long time
	"Now the world cats will short dig, you hear what I say -- short dig nor long stash in their wigs what we's beatin' out chops around here. "
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	LONG THIN LIMB
	a precarious position
	"Just what I thought, some far out Levantine cat gonna get you way out on a long, thin limb and snap it off."
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	LOONED
	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 ]

	LOOSE SOUL
	an untogether soul, a soul that is not right and tight
	"And 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. "
	[ Nero ]

	LOOT
	money
	". . . and he ran out of loot and marble at the same time."
	[ Nero ]

	LOOTY WAS BOOTY
	the spoils of war
	"Yea, the looty was booty and hipped the treasury well."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	LORD'S BOY
	one who has been transformed by a dramatic experience, so that the base of consciousness is now love rather than fear
	". . . he done did the turnabout, he's the Lord's boy today."
	[ Scrooge ]

	LORD'S SWEET BOY
	one of God's favorite mortals
	". . . I dig you Jonah, 'cause Jonah is the Lord's sweet boy!"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	LOW MAN ON A FAT MAN'S TOTEM POLE
	one weighted down by gravity
	". . . when suddenly Captain Cool started upstairs again . . . I DIDN'T GO WITH THE CAT AT ALL, I kept goin' down. I felt like the low man on a fat man's totem pole."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
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	LP-TALKING
	long-winded (from LP, long-playing record)
	". . . and there was an LP-talking Cat by the name of Eddie Everett."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ] ~

	LUNAR
	the moon
	"Have you ever been completely out of this world, when the lunar came on swift and clear?"
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +