LBC HIPesaurus -

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	SACKED OUT
	sleeping
	". . . he's in the silk, sacked out with a concrete wig."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	SACRED SLEEP
	the sleep of an exalted person
	". . . (the news) better be something terrible...fooling with the Sacred Sleep!!"
	[ Maharajah ]

	SAD TOURS
	very unpleasant assignments
	"I've been on a lot of sad tours."
	[ The Gasser ]

	SALTY
	angry
	"You've been a very salty cat all this time."
	[ Scrooge ]

	SCARF
	eating
	"That, before you know it, it was scarfing time and these poor cats is forty-two miles out of town and nobody's got the first biscuit."
	[ The Nazz ] ^

	SCARF PATCH
	a place with exploitable resources
	"He was into that scarf patch up to his shoulders."
	[ The Hip Gan ]

	SCIENTIFIC JOURNALHEADS
	journalists for a science-oriented publication
	"He said, in the spacehead cat's paper, he say to the scientific journalheads . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	SCRATCHED FROM THE BIG RACE
	eliminated from the world (Lincoln's phrase was "shall not perish from the earth"
	". . . shall not be scratched from the big race."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SCREEN THE SCENE
	get rid of undesirables
	"Call the guards, screen the scene . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	SCREW
	a command demanding that somebody leave
	"Screw, before I blow my stack back to your Plutonian Shore."
	[ The Raven ]

	SECRET RIFF
	an undisclosed technique
	"'Let me hip you, Your Honor.', said he./I am able, by means, of a secret riff, . . ./I use my musical charms On creatures that drag and do people harm Like, the gossipers, the prevaricators, the rats and the vipers. Why the cats all call me 'The Swingin' Pied Piper' "
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	SEIZURE OF THE FLIPS
	a confused state of mind
	"I began to suffer from a seizure of the flips. . . ."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	SET OF WHEELS
	a car
	". . . riding a wild set of wheels at an easy pace?"
	[ Subconscious Mind ]

	SET OF WINGS
	a jet plane
	"This real way out set of wings, looks like a multimillionaire's son's special kick-ship."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
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	SEVENTEEN CARNIVALS TAKIN' OFF
	an event or time of joy
	". . . and there's a really swingin' cat around there and it's a happy time place. It looks like seventeen carnivals takin' off."
	[ Scrooge ]

	SEVENTEEN FRENCH ACROBATS
	in reference to something very tall
	". . . now they come to a wall so tall it'd take seventeen French acrobats to see the top of this mother."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	SHADE
	diminish
	"But they can never successfully shade what they vonced here."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ] ~

	SHAKER
	a frightening event
	"He say, 'Oh, man, that was a shaker!' "
	[ Scrooge ]

	SHIFT OF THE RIFT
	a change in the status quo of consciousness so that your mind-set and reality are altered in a major fashion
	"I felt the shift of the rift and the thing of the bing and suddenly: I had my own railroad."
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	SHOOK THE PENINSULA
	moved the earth with its power, influenced a large region
	"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 ]

	SHORT CHANGE
	small tips
	"And the number six busboy, been waiting on the number two waiter is picking up eleven-hundred-damn-two-ninety-six dollars a minute in short change, so you know the joint is jumping!"
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	SHORT CHANGERS
	money lenders
	". . . and kicked all the short changers all over the place . . ."
	[ The Nazz ]

	SHORT DIG
	give brief notice
	"Now the world cats will short dig, you hear what I say -- short dig nor long stash their wigs what we's beatin' out chops around here. "
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SHORT GREEN KICK
	a small job taken to make money
	". . . that this short green kick cooled his living strain."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SHORT TILT
	problem
	"They had a square captain that ran into a short tilt and blew the whole gig . . ."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	SIGNIFYING
	dedicated to an ideal or testifying to that ideal
	"It is hipper for us to be signifying to the glorious gig that we can't miss with all these bulgin' eyes . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SILK
	bed
	". . . he was smashed out in the silk with a concrete wig."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	SINGLE O
	cursory, on the surface of something
	"Here and there a cat would dig it single O, but it was so far out he couldn't dig anyone in his cat circle to cut it up with so the cat would be hung, dig?"
	[ The Hip Einie ]
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	SINGULAR SOUND OF BEAUTY
	to whom one is devoted
	"And they said: Oh great non-stop singular sound of beauty!"
	[ The Nazz ]

	SITTIN' IN DEATH'S DOOR WITH HIS BACK TO THE STREET
	just about to die
	". . . he's sittin' in death's door with his back to the street and we want you to turn him around."
	[ The Gasser ]

	SKY ACRE
	a large patch of sky
	". . . of a gassing sky acre of vampire bats."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	SKYSLEDGE FLIP
	an acrobatic plane maneuver
	"Now Captain Cool really takes off on a sky sledge flip . . ."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	SLAMMER
	a place of incarceration, also a door
	". . . and he spent twenty-three years in the slammer . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	SLASH
	a drink
	"I took another slash."
	[ God's Own Drunk ]

	SLIPPED
	given
	"He ain't even slipped the cat a Nabisco up to now!"
	[ The Gasser ]
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	SMASHED OUT
	suffering the effects of chemical overindulgence
	"He's smashed out. He's in the silk sacked out with a concrete wig."
	[ H-Bomb ]

	SMAZE
	a mess or film on the pavement
	". . . up ahead a cruddy, illiterate smaze on the street. . . ."
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	SNAP UP
	pick up
	"Old Bobby Service'd snap up a couple of them young squaws and make it back to his pad."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	SOD PAD
	a final resting place, a grave
	". . . as a final sweet sod pad for the fine Cats who laid it down and left it there . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SOIL STASH
	a plot of land
	"We are here to turn on a small soil stash of the before mentioned hassle site . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SOLID
	a phrase of affirmation
	"I said, 'Solid!' and he said, 'Roger!' and cut."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	SOLID SENT
	confident or righteous
	". . . so hip and so solid sent . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]
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	SOME-SORT-OF-A-GRAM
	communication of any kind
	". . . the street car company, without sending me a telegram or some-sort-of-a-gram."
	[ My Own Railroad ]

	SOS'N BELL
	calling-for-help bell,
	"You hittin' on that SOS'n bell pretty hard."
	[ The Nazz ]

	SOUL BUG
	spiritual hunger
	"Yeah, it was a soul bug - not of the scarfin' kind."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	SOUL NARCOTIC
	an emotion that is hard to resist
	"Ah, this emotion is so strong, so vital, such a fantastic soul narcotic . . ."
	[ Murder ]

	SOUND
	to seek somebody's answer or attitude concerning something
	"We'll tote this here news into the Treasury cat and sound him for a little expedition money. . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SOUNDING A MONEY BEAT
	requesting money
	". . . 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 ]

	SPACEHAT
	a flight helmet
	"a cat comes up with a spacehat and say, "Try this on for size.""
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
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	SPACEHEAD
	astrophysicist
	"He became the king of all spaceheads."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SPARK
	to stimulate interest
	"Finally this great lick started to spark the spacehead grapevine . . ."
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SPARKLING PEPPERS
	bright eyes indicating vitality
	"All the little boys and girls with their rosy wigs/And coo coo curls and sparlking peppers."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	SPHERE GASSER
	somebody who has figured out how the universe works
	"And they call this here cat 'The Mighty Hip Einie, Sphere Gasser!'"
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SPLIT
	to leave, to die
	". . . that these fine studs have not split in vain!"
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SQUARE
	unhip person, an unaware person, someone that follows society's rules without much thought
	"Let the Cat Go, he's a square, he don't know what he's doin' anyway . . ."
	[ Nero ]

	SQUARE UP
	to become unhip, to perform unenlightened actions
	". . . they're squarin' up over there."
	[ Jonah and The Whale ]
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	SQUIRMIN' VERMIN
	rats
	"To see the Town Cats brought down so by squirmin' vermin was a drag."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]

	STALLION
	a woman
	"A stallion that's dearer than all this mother world."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	STAMP OF THE NAZZ, THE
	consecration, the blessing of Jesus or God
	". . . we can not put the stamp of the Nazz on this hassle sight . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	STANDING THERE GETTING HIS WINGS
	about to die
	"The cat was standing there getting his wings."
	[ The Gasser ]

	STASH
	to place
	". . . and stash them down long towards the end of the Palladium where they can get to the Cats easy for the games."
	[ Nero ]

	STAYING ON STAGE TOO LONG
	monopoizing the attention of a group
	" He went on to say that he was making some long speeches tonight and he hoped he wasn't staying onstage too long. "
	[ James Dean (Message to the Teenagers)]

	STEEL RECTUM
	something denoting a certain kind of strength and tenacity
	". . . looked like a cat with a steel rectum."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	STEEL-TAILED
	denoting great strength and tenacity
	"And this big steel-tailed Minski, he's sitting there sucking up all this juice . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	STICKER, THE
	a knife
	"Is this the sticker which I dig deep in front?"
	[ Is This The Sticker? ]

	STIFFER RIFF
	a stronger more resolute effort
	"To be a world grabber, a stiffer riff must be blown."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	STOMP
	a foot
	". . . with one stomp in the grave"
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	STOMPERS
	feet or shoes
	"Next he gave me a set of Churchill striders to put on my stompers and the chute pack."
	[ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]

	STOMPIN'
	walking
	"And ol' Jude runs stompin' off that boat, took about four steps . . ."
	[ The Nazz ]

	STOMPIN' SOLDIERS
	infantry troops
	". . . makin' it across the stream with the ice and stompin' soldiers and all that."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	STOOGE
	acted as a volunteer from the audience
	"Mr. Sullivan stooged for me."
	[ KPFA Interview With Bill Butler - 9-16-59 ]
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	STRAIGHTEN
	impart knowledge to someone
	"Straighten me, Nazz."
	[ The Nazz ] +

	STRAIGHTEST LICK
	the most moral thing to do
	"And we all dig that this is the straightest lick."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	STRANGILY
	a fancifiul Buckleyism meaning stringy and dangling
	"And he's got a old, beat up cat and strangily legs and strangily arms and pedicured eyes and all out of his skull, spooking up a storm."
	[ Scrooge ]

	STROLLED IN YOUR GARDEN
	to have been alive in the world
	"And it has been a most precious pleasure to have temporarily strolled in your garden."
	[ People (Epilogue) ]

	STRUCK UP STRAIGHT
	highly resolved
	". . . that we here want it struck up straight, for all to dig that these departed studs shall not have split in vain. "
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	STUD
	a man, usually applied in praise
	"I'm gonna take twelve of you studs and straighten you all at the same time."
	[ The Nazz ]

	SUBCONSCIOUS BUTTON
	a stimulation point that will produce behavior not controlled consciously
	"Comes swinging into the scene and he shook these studs up so hard that he hit their subconscious buttons so strong they vrrrptt, they found themselves standing on their feet with a low bow to this cat, joined the table and never dug him before in their born days."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
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	SUCK UP
	to drink
	"Baby, let's cut up to my pad, and suck up a little good juice . . ."
	[ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]

	SUNDAY AFTERNOON FLIP
	a sarcastic description of an incredibly long period of time
	". . . only took him eight years. Little Sunday afternoon flip, don't you know."
	[ The Gasser ]

	SUPER-VICARIOUS
	an extreme second party pleasure
	". . . he's reachin' way out still further for his super-vicarious."
	[ Nero ]

	SURRENDER
	to drop one's old beliefs in favor of a higher, more powerful truth
	"I'm with you, where do we go to surrender?"
	[ The Hip Einie ]

	SWEET SOD PAD
	a lovely burial plot
	". . . to turn on a small soil stash of the before mentioned hassle site as a final, sweet sod pad for those who laid it down and left it there . . ."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SWING
	living, existing in a peak experience of well being
	"It is for us, the swingin', to pick up the dues of these fine studs who cut out here through to Endsville."
	[ The Gettysburg Address ]

	SWING BY ON THE BOUND
	to skip by
	"The square Mayor and the unhip Council stood like squares cut out of blocks of wood, unable to move a step or make a sound, as the children cats swung by on the bound."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +
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	SWING IN
	to enter
	"And the Piper swung in, and the little cats followed . . ."
	[ The Swingin' Pied Piper ] +

	SWING WITH
	to steal, to exit
	"The chick had kissed him and swung with his poke."
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +

	SWINGING FOR THE MOON
	ambitious
	"Yet Brutus was swinging for the moon."
	[ Marc Anthony's Funeral Oration ]

	SWOOP THE SATELLITE
	to die
	"He was hung in from for a chick by the name of Lenore who had already swooped the satellite."
	[ The Raven ] +

	SWOOP THE SCENE
	to depart
	"They had to tuck him in a hole and sweep some sand over his wig and swoop the scene."
	[ The Gasser ] +

	SWUNG WITH HIS JUICE
	drank to his health
	"No cat there could dig the strangers wig/ Though we rocked ourselves for a clue/ But he swung with his juice/ And the last to tilt was Swingin' Danny McGroo "
	[ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ] +