LBC HIPesaurus -

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	PAD
	someone's domicile
	"His pad now jumped with the sweet swinging light of life."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	PARTY PAD
	a home especially set up for having a party
	"I got a party pad over the hill here. Everything to have a good time with."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	PATRILLO
	a leader of musicians, derived from the name of James M. Patrillo, head of the musicians union of Chicago
	"And Mr. Rabadee, the Indian Patrillo. . . "
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	PAVEMENT RASH
	being down and out
	"I've suffered from pavement rash."
	[ The Gasser ]

	PEEPERS
	eyes
	"Then like a solid musical cat, to blow the pipe, his hip lips wrinkled, neon green and blue his sharp peepers twinkled, like a candle flame where the salt is sprinkled. "
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	PETTICOATS OF PARIS
	on the outskirts of Paris
	"They're sitting in a little gin joint on the petticoats of Paris."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	PICK UP
	become aware of
	"They wailed so hard that the snakes in the jungle picked up on the lick."
	[ The Hip Gan ]
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	PICK UP ON
	to hear, to enjoy
	" . . . with my bent frame limping as before, and to never pick up on that sweet jazz no more."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +

	PIKE
	a road
	"Let's cut out down the pike."
	[ The Nazz ]

	PILOT LIGHT
	breath, spark of life
	". . . we were breathin' in staccato to keep the pilot light lit."
	[ The Gasser ]

	PIN
	to nail or affix, also to locate
	"And on the cross there's five thousand Christians, from two to toothless, pinned to the cross."
	[ Nero ]

	PITY KICK
	a feeling pity for another
	". . . so he really got the gig on a pity kick"
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	PLAYCATS
	playmates
	"It's a real solid drag in our town since my play cats cut out"
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +

	PLAYING THE IGNORE
	feigning unawareness
	"He ain't moving a hair, see? Little ol' fawn-tail blonde, she dig, dig, dig, playing the ignore for the gorilla, see? But the gorilla know the blonde know that the gorilla in there."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	POD
	head
	"I nudged my pod."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	POKE
	money, gold
	"The chick had kissed him and swung with his poke."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	POLISHED PENGUINS PERSONAL SALUTE TO THE NORTH STAR
	an aerodynamic jet headed straight upwards
	"through all this Captain Cool is coming on like a polished penguin's personal salute to the North Star"
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	POOL
	a large body of water
	"... man, every time I stick my nose out of this pool of water I sure see some crazy jazz ..."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]

	POPULANCE
	a variation on the word populace, meaning those that make up the majority of a society
	"'But, ' he said, 'if I was you I wouldn't go down there amongst them crosses, you see, 'cause,' he says, 'the populance is down there. . ."
	[ Nero ]

	POUNCE OF THE NOW
	today's cutting edge
	"The intimate social language of the American Beauty Negro . . . has a fantastic sense of renewal that'll take any old and revered movement and swing it right up to the pounce of the now."
	[ KPFA Interview With Bill Butler - 9-16-59 ] +

	POUND OF TREYS
	a quantity of illicit drugs
	". . . and a pound of treys in the toolbox."
	[ Governor Slugwell ]
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	PRE FLIGHT JAZZ BOOK
	a highly technical pre-flight manual
	"They put a pre flight jazz book on me, that was a gasser."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	PUSH
	strength
	". . . lacking the push of a mouse."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	PUSHIN' SHAKESPEARE
	challenging for supremacy
	"Man, dig what this Genius done put down! This cat is pushin' Shakespeare!"
	[ Nero ]

	PUSS
	the face
	"You know, I didn't get all these miles on my puss in one lifetime."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	PUT A SOUND ON
	to talk to someone
	"This is the first time I ever put a sound on you."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	PUT DOWN
	to get ride of, to separate from
	"He had to put down Cleo, which he didn't want to do, 'cause Cleo was one o' them early-day Elizabeth Taylor chicks . . . But he had to put her down and go defend Marc."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ] +

	PUT THE FINGER ON
	select
	"Ain't that crazy? Ninety-six million cats for the Lord to put his finger on and he select Jonah. Ain't that groovy?"
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]
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	PUT THE SCENE DOWN
	do some work or complete a project
	"We'll tote this here news into the Treasury Cat and sound him for a little expedition money and put the scene down and make a little history."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	PUTTIN' DOWN
	creating, generating or demonstrating
	"Man, that chick is puttin' down some action!!"
	[ Nero ]

	PUTTING THE BURN ON
	staring intently or scrutinizingly at,
	". . . and all of them putting the burn on me like I had personally cut out with the Statue of Liberty."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]