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MAD | | pertaining to something delightful and stimulating, possibly dangerous | source | | NERO | usage | | Nero is havin' a ball, he's diggin' this mad game, he's
juicin' up a storm . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MAD, MAD MOVEMENT | | a wild and crazy event | source | | NERO | usage | | . . . he's just bubblin' all over the mad, mad movement. | ]]] | | | | | |
MADMAN AT A TAFFY PULL | | a person engaged in a highly focused and frantic action | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
MAGIC LICK | | a miracle; see also 'Miracle Lick' | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | Me got buddy cat. . . little bit hung-up, little bent. You straighten him. You put 'em magic lick on this boy. | + | | | | | |
MAGNIFICENT POLITICAL DEITY | | a politician of iconic stature | source | | GOVERNOR SLUGWELL | usage | | . . . where he will introduce this magnificent political deity. | ]]] | | | | | |
MAGNIFICENT TORCH | | a beautiful poem | source | | THE RAVEN | usage | | M'Lords and Ladies of the Royal Court, Edgar, the swinging Edgar Allen Poe's magnificent torch: The Raven. | ]]] | | | | | top |
MAIN DAY | | utmost or most important | source | | THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | usage | | Now we're hung with a king-sized main day civil drag. | ]]] | | | | | |
MAIN-DAY CHARGE | | girl friend | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | Diggin' his takes was his main day charge. | + | | | | | |
MAKE A CONNECTION | | contact the Almighty | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | 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. | | | | | | |
MAKE AN APPEAL | | pray, ask for divine intervention | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | 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. | | | | | | |
MAKE IT | | commit passionately | source | | My Own Railroad | usage | | . . . when you make love, Make It! | ]]] | | | | | top |
MAKIN' SOUP | | boiling | source | | NERO | usage | | . . . and there makin' soup out of one Christian | ]]] | | | | | |
MAKING IT ACROSS THE STREAM | | crossing a river | source | | THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | usage | | . . . making it across the stream with the ice and stompin' soldiers and all that. | ]]] | | | | | |
MAN | | an appellation, similar to "Daddy-o" | source | | NERO | usage | | . . . he's really diggin' the scene, man! | ]]] | | | | | |
MANIAC'S TWIST | | a complex aerial maneuver | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | . . . we're goin' outside outs and inside ins and the maniac's twist and then we're jumpin' in the straight again . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MAP | | face | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | With a map most hair, and the goofed-up stare of a dog whose day is done. | + | | | | | top |
MARDI-GRAS TIME | | a glorious and exhilarating experience | source | | THE NAZZ | usage | | And they're havin' such a wailin', gorgeous, Mardi-Gras Time . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MARINE NEWS | | a knowledge of what is happening in a marine environment | source | | JONAH AND THE WHALE | usage | | Say, don't you dig the Marine News? | ]]] | | | | | |
MARLEY'S BARLEY | | money, derived from the money-obsessed character of Jacob Marley in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", | source | | SCROOGE | usage | | That's me, I'm Scrooge, and I've got all Marley's Barley. | ]]] | | | | | |
MARSHEAD | | a very intelligent person | source | | THE HIP EINIE | usage | | And out popped two little Marsheads, a boy and a girl. | ]]] | | | | | |
MASS MESS | | the insides of a whale; see also "Blubbery Rugs" | source | | JONAH AND THE WHALE | usage | | Hey, you got a new captain of this here mas mess now, Mr. Fish. | ]]] | | | | | top |
MASS PANTOMIMICISM | | the secret technique that Buckley claims is the basis of his Amos 'n' Andy routine | source | | KPFA INTERVIEW WITH BILL BUTLER - 9-16-59 | usage | | Finally I achieved a thing called 'mass pantomimicism,' which is the art of voice projection through people. | + | | | | | |
MELLOWED | | consecrated | source | | THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | usage | | . . . 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
MENTAL EPIDEMIC | | mass hysteria | source | | CHASTITY BELT | usage | | 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. | < | | | | | |
MESS | | to hassle someone | source | | NERO | usage | | Daddy, I don't want to mess with 'em . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MEXICAN TAILSPIN | | a mental and/or physical paroxysm | source | | NERO | usage | | He come swangin' down doin' a Mexican Tailspin and the Japanese a bab-a-dap. | ]]] | | | | | top |
MIDNIGHT STUD | | a late-night visitor | source | | THE RAVEN | usage | | . . . 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 . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MILEHEAD | | someone with great endurance | source | | Speak For Yourself, John | usage | | 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. | < | | | | | |
MIRACLE HEAD | | a god in human form | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | 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. | + | | | | | |
MIRACLE LICK | | a miracle | source | | THE NAZZ | usage | | They want to dig his lick, his miracle lick. | + | | | | | |
MISER'S COMA | | a delirium attendant to a state of constant greed | source | | SCROOGE | usage | | Scrooge fell back into a cool, groovy miser's coma. | | | | | | top |
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 | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | . . . 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
MOOR | | a dark-skinned North African Islamic person | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | It was Alvar Nunez Cabaza de Vaca, the Gasser, a Buddy Cat, a Moor and a Parrot. | ]]] | | | | | |
MORPHEUS WAS TAP-DANCING ON HIS EYEBROWS | | nodding off (Morpheus was the god of sleep) | source | | JONAH AND THE WHALE | usage | | And he laid his great body back in the water and he lullin' in the waves and Morpheus was tap-dancing on his eyebrows. | ]]] | | | | | |
MORTAL ANVIL | | a superhuman being | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | . . . and in walks a stud about nine foot two, built like a mortal anvil. | ]]] | | | | | |
MOTHER | | the ultimate example of something | source | | NERO | usage | | Yeah, Nero was an All High Flip Out in Orbit Mother to end All Mothers! | ]]] | | | | | top |
MOTHER PRIMEVAL | | an ancient forest | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | . . . and takes off right through the mother primeval . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
MOVE ONE | | any movement | source | | Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade - Kind of the Badcats | usage | | 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
MULTIMILLIONAIRE'S SON'S SPECIAL KICK-SHIP | | a fancy, expensive toy | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | This real way out set of wings, looks like a multimillionaire's son's special kick-ship. | ]]] | | | | | |
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