LBC HIPesaurus -

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	MAD
	pertaining to something delightful and stimulating, possibly dangerous
	"Nero is havin' a ball, he's diggin' this mad game, he's juicin' up a storm . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	MAD, MAD MOVEMENT
	a wild and crazy event
	". . . he's just bubblin' all over the mad, mad movement."
	[ Nero ]

	MADMAN AT A TAFFY PULL
	a person engaged in a highly focused and frantic action
	"I told the cat that if the time comes for me to pull this item, I'll come on like a madman at a taffy pull."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	MAGIC LICK
	a miracle; see also 'Miracle Lick'
	"Me got buddy cat. . . little bit hung-up, little bent. You straighten him. You put 'em magic lick on this boy."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	MAGNIFICENT POLITICAL DEITY
	a politician of iconic stature
	". . . where he will introduce this magnificent political deity."
	[ Governor Slugwell ]

	MAGNIFICENT TORCH
	a beautiful poem
	"M'Lords and Ladies of the Royal Court, Edgar, the swinging Edgar Allen Poe's magnificent torch: The Raven."
	[ The Raven ]

	MAIN DAY
	utmost or most important
	"Now we're hung with a king-sized main day civil drag."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]
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	MAIN-DAY CHARGE
	girl friend
	"Diggin' his takes was his main day charge."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	MAKE A CONNECTION
	contact the Almighty
	"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 ]

	MAKE AN APPEAL
	pray, ask for divine intervention
	"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 ]

	MAKE IT
	commit passionately
	". . . when you make love, Make It!"
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	MAKIN' SOUP
	boiling
	". . . and there makin' soup out of one Christian"
	[ Nero ]

	MAKING IT ACROSS THE STREAM
	crossing a river
	". . . making it across the stream with the ice and stompin' soldiers and all that."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	MAN
	an appellation, similar to "Daddy-o"
	". . . he's really diggin' the scene, man!"
	[ Nero ]
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	MANIAC'S TWIST
	a complex aerial maneuver
	". . . we're goin' outside outs and inside ins and the maniac's twist and then we're jumpin' in the straight again . . . "
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	MAP
	face
	"With a map most hair, and the goofed-up stare of a dog whose day is done."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	MARDI-GRAS TIME
	a glorious and exhilarating experience
	"And they're havin' such a wailin', gorgeous, Mardi-Gras Time . . ."
	[ The Nazz ]

	MARINE NEWS
	a knowledge of what is happening in a marine environment
	"Say, don't you dig the Marine News?"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	MARLEY'S BARLEY
	money, derived from the money-obsessed character of Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol",
	"That's me, I'm Scrooge, and I've got all Marley's Barley."
	[ Scrooge ]

	MARSHEAD
	a very intelligent person
	"And out popped two little Marsheads, a boy and a girl."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	MASS MESS
	the insides of a whale; see also "Blubbery Rugs"
	"Hey, you got a new captain of this here mas mess now, Mr. Fish."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]
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	MASS PANTOMIMICISM
	the secret technique that Buckley claims is the basis of his Amos 'n' Andy routine
	"Finally I achieved a thing called 'mass pantomimicism,' which is the art of voice projection through people."
	[ KPFA Interview With Bill Butler - 9-16-59 ] +

	MELLOWED
	consecrated
	". . . we cannot put the stamp of the Nazz on this sweet sod 'cause the strong non-stop studs who both diggin' it and dug under it who hassled here have mellowed with such a wild, mad beat that we can hear it but we can't touch it."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	MENTAL EPIDEMIC
	mass hysteria
	"Between the 14th and the 15th century there was a tremendous mental epidemic vrrrrpppt swept the land. Everyone was going in search of the Holy Grail. "
	[ Chastity Belt ] <

	MESS
	to hassle someone
	"Daddy, I don't want to mess with 'em . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	MEXICAN TAILSPIN
	a mental and/or physical paroxysm
	"He come swangin' down doin' a Mexican Tailspin and the Japanese a bab-a-dap."
	[ Nero ]

	MIDNIGHT STUD
	a late-night visitor
	". . . I stood repeating 'Tis some strange midnight stud that's sounding a money beat on my pad's door. A deuce to cool the morrow . . ."
	[ The Raven ]

	MILEHEAD
	someone with great endurance
	"Used to call him The Hip Miles 'cause he was a milehead; he used to make them miles up and down the peninsula rockin' them Indians, see."
	[ Speak For Yourself, John ] <
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	MIRACLE HEAD
	a god in human form
	"Me know you, you big miraclehead. Me hear you by Indian grapevine, you come: 'Many big him ship. He no sail water. He got white wings, he sail sky'. . . You pretty hip head. You got 'em miracle wig."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	MIRACLE LICK
	a miracle
	"They want to dig his lick, his miracle lick."
	[ The Nazz ] +

	MISER'S COMA
	a delirium attendant to a state of constant greed
	"Scrooge fell back into a cool, groovy miser's coma."
	[ Scrooge ]

	MOHICAN HEAD
	a person of considerable physical prowess with a strong knowledge of natural environments; comes from James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans
	". . . he turns out to be a Mohicanhead and takes right off through the mother primeval and does about nineteen tail-breaking miles over hill and dale."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	MOOR
	a dark-skinned North African Islamic person
	"It was Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca, the Gasser, a Buddy Cat, a Moor and a Parrot."
	[ The Gasser ]

	MORPHEUS WAS TAP-DANCING ON HIS EYEBROWS
	nodding off (Morpheus was the god of sleep)
	"And he laid his great body back in the water and he lullin' in the waves and Morpheus was tap-dancing on his eyebrows."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	MORTAL ANVIL
	a superhuman being
	". . . and in walks a stud about nine foot two, built like a mortal anvil."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	MOTHER
	the ultimate example of something
	"Yeah, Nero was an All High Flip Out in Orbit Mother to end All Mothers!"
	[ Nero ]

	MOTHER PRIMEVAL
	an ancient forest
	". . . and takes off right through the mother primeval . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	MOTORCYCLE SHOULDERS
	broad, muscular shoulders, an allusion to the high handlebars of some Harley Davidson motorcycles
	"A big cat with glasses and motorcycle shoulders stood up and made the introductions. "
	[ James Dean (Message to the Teenagers)]

	MOVE ONE
	any movement
	"And that little ol' fawn-tailed blonde, she dancing, and a ring-a-ding-ding and a dong-dong-dong. And the gorilla, he sitting over there digging the whole scene. He ain't making move one."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	MULTIMILLIONAIRE'S SON'S SPECIAL KICK-SHIP
	a fancy, expensive toy
	"This real way out set of wings, looks like a multimillionaire's son's special kick-ship."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]