Action – activity, goings on
Baby – term of endearment
Beat – beaten down, exhausted, tired, broken by the world
Beatific – against the world, out for kicks
Beatnik – Herb Caen’s mocking term, used sarcastically
Blow – to play, musically
Bread – money
Bring down – to depress
Capped – beaten, bettered
Cat – hip fellow
Chick – female
Collar – to understand
Cool – hip
Cool it – calm down
Corny – old fashioned
Cubby – home
Cut – to leave
Dig – appreciate, understand
Down with – cool, ok
Drag – unfortunate, disappointing
Flip – go crazy
Freeby – no charge
Fuzz – police
Gammin’ – showing off
Gas – laugh
Gravy – money
Groovy – cool, great, happy
Hard – cool, good
Hep – knowledgeable
Hincty – uptight
Holding – in possession of (relating often to drugs)
Igg – short for ignore
Jam – swing music
Jitterbug – fan of swing music
Jive – derogatory, no good
Joint – place, home, location
Kicks – fun, banter, good times
Knock – to give
Latch on – understand
Later – goodbye
Lay on – to give, to lend
Licks – good musical phrases
Lock up – certainty
Man, the – police, authority
Mellow – cool, nothing harsh
Mess – cool, good
Mezz – brilliant
Moo juice – milk
Murder – brilliant
Nang – cool, brilliant, awesome
Nod – sleep, boring
Nutty – madcap, crazy
Ofay – white person
Out of this world – the best
Pad – home, bed
Peng – brilliant, amazing, the best
Pigeon – young girl
Pops – men
Put on – to teach, mock
Riff – musical phrase
Righteous – excellent
Rug cutter – good dancer
Sad – lame, poor quality
Scoff – to eat
Score – to acquire drugs or money
Sharp – neat, cool, smart
Skins – drums
Skirt – sexy female
Slave – any form of work
Solid – great, good, cool
Spoutin’ – talking
Square – boring, lame, uncool
Stash – to hide, put away
Take it slow – be careful
Tapped – poor, broke
Threads – clothes
Tossed – searched by the police
Too much – praise, brilliant
Truck – to go, move
Turn on – take drugs
Unhep – not cool, not hep
Wail – talk, sing
Wig – brain
Wren – a chick, female
Zoot – too much
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i think everybody should have a look at lord buckley's 'hipesaurus', which begins as shown below. he was slinging the hep chat when making al capone laugh, long before it was hip to be hip...perhaps he is where Beat began...
A
ACE LICK
the best, the top most
" . . solid sent upon the Ace Lick that all Cats and Kitties, Red, White, or Blue are created level in front"
[ The Gettysburg Address ]
ACE STAMPED STUDS
the finest men, in Lincoln's speech the phrase was '"these honored dead";
"That from all these ace-stamped studs . . ."
[ The Gettysburg Address ]
ACROVATS
a Buckleyism meaning a fancy holiday food
"And Scrooge look around and sees the joint is loaded with apples and bananas and oranges and credileys and acrovats and ripalips and all kinds of crazy, wild grapes and crazy Christmas scenes and nuts and candy . . ."
[ Scrooge ]
ACTION
interesting and stimulating behavior
"Man that chick is puttin' down some action!!"
[ Nero ]
ALL HIGH FLIP OUT IN ORBIT MOTHER TO END ALL MOTHERS
the ultimate example of something
"Yeah, Nero was an All High Flip Out in Orbit Mother to end All Mothers!"
[ Nero ]
ALPINEHEADS
citizens of Switzerland
"To prove and groove with the Alpineheads."
[ The Hip Einie ]
and it goes on...http://www.lordbuckley.com/LBC_The_Word/LBC_HIPesaurus/LBC_HIPesaurus_A.htm