T

  TAGGED
  named
  ". . . whom the fly chicks tagged Leonore"
  [ The Raven ]
       
  TAIL BUSTER
  an action that involves rough treatment of the buttock
  ". . . and the one on the right is the main day double 7 ply tail buster to end all gassers."
  [ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
       
  TAKE
  intense and disbelieving stare
  "And the minute they sit down, they did a real wild take. And they found out that the chairs that they was sitting on was composed of skeleton bones."
  [ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
       
  TAKES
  gambling earnings
  ". . . diggin' his takes was his main day charge."
  [ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]     +
       
  TAKING THEM OUT
  killing people
  "The Gasser was a warrior cat: he'd been takin' them out, not bringing them in."
  [ The Gasser ]
       
  TALK
  excuses
  "I don't want to hear no talk, Jack, make a change and make it quick!"
  [ Nero ]
       
  TELEVISION FACE
  a face that doesn't look good on televsion
  "Now, you can take one look at my television face, and you got to know I didin't get all these miles on my puss in one lifetime."
  [ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
 
  TERRA
  the ground, the earth
  "Stomp upon the terra!"
  [ The Nazz ]
       
  TEST CATS
  airplane test pilots
  "They MUST have pulled a switch on me . . . this book is for the "test cats, NOT ME."
  [ Buckley Describes First Jet Ride ]
       
  THING OF THE BING
  a change in the status quo of consciousness so that your mind-set and reality are altered in 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 ]
       
  THIRTY-TWO BARS
  a musical measurement of a verse of standard length
  "I'm hip that you dig, with all of your wig, what he blew in just thirty-two bars."
  [ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]
       
  THREADS
  clothes
  "Hungry, his threads thin, it was a drag."
  [ The Hip Einie ]
       
  THROUGH WITH HIS GIG
  dead
  "There flipped on his wig, and all through with his gig, was Swingin' Danny McGroo."
  [ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]     +
       
  TICKER
  the heart
  "The endless beating of my ticker."
  [ The Raven ]
 
  TIGHT
  perfect
  ". . . and you're so good you, hah! You're right in there tight."
  [ Subconscious Mind ]
       
  TILT
  drinker
  "The last tilt was Swingin' Danny McGroo."
  [ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]     +
       
  TILTED
  unpleasant, unsuccessful
  "I've been on a lotta tilted picnics and a lotta double-unhung parties."
  [ The Gasser ]     +
       
  TIPS OF THE RIPPETY ZIP
  the edges of all perception when one is just monitoring things but can't pay real attention due to imminent crisis
  "Cross everything you've got and keep it crossed and don't breathe in long breaths, breathe in short breaths and feel the tips of the rippety zip and WHAP! I made it!!"
  [ My Own Railroad ]
       
  TOO FAR BELOW
  very cold
  "And out of the night, which was too far below. . . "
  [ The Ballad Of Dan McGroo ]
       
  TOP OF THE KICK STICK
  the ultimate sensation
  "He wants to dig the lick on the top of the Kick Stick"
  [ Nero ]
       
  TOWN CATS
  citizens
  " At last the town cats to the town hall in a body came rocking."
  [ The Swingin' Pied Piper ]
 
  TRAP-HUNG PANTHER
  unable to escape a trap
  ". . . Nero's eyes a gleamin' like a trap-hung panther."
  [ Nero ]
       
  TUNEUP
  major foreplay, sensual arousal
  ". . . 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 tuneup first..."
  [ Bad-Rapping of the Marquis De Sade ]
       
  TUNING IN
  paying attention
  "Finally this great lick started to spark the spacehead grapevine, and all the space cats were tuning in."
  [ The Hip Einie ]
       
  TURNABOUT
  spiritual transformation from fear and self-centeredness to love and compassion
  "... he done did the turn-about, he's the Lord's boy today."
  [ Scrooge ]
       
  TWENTY CENT POOL OF WATER
  a very small ocean
  "So on the way over the boys run into a little old twenty cent pool of water."
  [ The Nazz ]
       
  TWENTY-SEVEN ACRE BODY
  a huge physical being
  "And I love every hair on your twenty-seven acre body!"
  [ God's Own Drunk ]
       
  TWILLED
  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 ]
 
  TWISTED MY WIG
  went crazy
  "I like to twisted my wig getting this session together to you."
  [ The Hip Gan ]     <
       
  TWO TO TOOTHLESS
  from young to old
  ". . . and on the crossses is five thousand Christians from two to toothless, pinned to the crosses."
  [ Nero ]