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PAD | | someone's domicile | source | | THE HIP EINIE | usage | | His pad now jumped with the sweet swinging light of life. | ]]] | | | | | |
PARTY PAD | | a home especially set up for having a party | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | I got a party pad over the hill here. Everything to have a good time with. | ]]] | | | | | |
PATRILLO | | a leader of musicians, derived from the name of James M. Patrillo, head of the musicians union of Chicago | source | | THE HIP GAN | usage | | And Mr. Rabadee, the Indian Patrillo. . . | # | | | | | |
PAVEMENT RASH | | being down and out | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | I've suffered from pavement rash. | ]]] | | | | | |
PEEPERS | | eyes | source | | THE SWINGIN' PIED PIPER | usage | | 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
PETTICOATS OF PARIS | | on the outskirts of Paris | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | They're sitting in a little gin joint on the petticoats of Paris. | ]]] | | | | | top |
PICK UP | | become aware of | source | | THE HIP GAN | usage | | They wailed so hard that the snakes in the jungle picked up on the lick. | ]]] | | | | | |
PICK UP ON | | to hear, to enjoy | source | | THE SWINGIN' PIED PIPER | usage | | . . . with my bent frame limping as before, and to never pick up on that sweet jazz no more. | + | | | | | |
PIKE | | a road | source | | THE NAZZ | usage | | Let's cut out down the pike. | ]]] | | | | | |
PILOT LIGHT | | breath, spark of life | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | . . . we were breathin' in staccato to keep the pilot light lit. | | | | | | |
PIN | | to nail or affix, also to locate | source | | Nero | usage | | And on the cross there's five thousand Christians, from two to toothless, pinned to the cross. | ]]] | | | | | top |
PITY KICK | | a feeling pity for another | source | | THE HIP EINIE | usage | | . . . so he really got the gig on a pity kick | ]]] | | | | | |
PLAYCATS | | playmates | source | | THE SWINGIN' PIED PIPER | usage | | It's a real solid drag in our town since my play cats cut out | + | | | | | |
PLAYING THE IGNORE | | feigning unawareness | source | | Bad-Rapping of the Marquis de Sade - Kind of the Badcats | usage | | 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
POD | | head | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | I nudged my pod. | + | | | | | |
POKE | | money, gold | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | The chick had kissed him and swung with his poke. | + | | | | | top |
POLISHED PENGUINS PERSONAL SALUTE TO THE NORTH STAR | | an aerodynamic jet headed straight upwards | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | through all this Captain Cool is coming on like a polished penguin's personal salute to the North Star | ]]] | | | | | |
POOL | | a large body of water | source | | JONAH AND THE WHALE | usage | | ... man, every time I stick my nose out of this pool of water I sure see some crazy jazz ... | ]]] | | | | | |
POPULANCE | | a variation on the word populace, meaning those that make up the majority of a society | source | | Nero | usage | | '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. . . | ]]] | | | | | |
POUNCE OF THE NOW | | today's cutting edge | source | | KPFA INTERVIEW WITH BILL BUTLER - 9-16-59 | usage | | 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. | + | | | | | |
POUND OF TREYS | | a quantity of illicit drugs | source | | Governor Slugwell | usage | | . . . and a pound of treys in the toolbox. | | | | | | top |
PRE FLIGHT JAZZ BOOK | | a highly technical pre-flight manual | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | They put a pre flight jazz book on me, that was a gasser. | ]]] | | | | | |
PUSH | | strength | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | . . . lacking the push of a mouse. | + | | | | | |
PUSHIN' SHAKESPEARE | | challenging for supremacy | source | | NERO | usage | | Man, dig what this Genius done put down! This cat is pushin' Shakespeare! | ]]] | | | | | |
PUSS | | the face | source | | THE BAD-RAPPING OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE - KING OF THE BAD CATS | usage | | You know, I didn't get all these miles on my puss in one lifetime. | ]]] | | | | | |
PUT A SOUND ON | | to talk to someone | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | This is the first time I ever put a sound on you. | + | | | | | top |
PUT DOWN | | to get ride of, to separate from | source | | MARC ANTHONY'S FUNERAL ORATION | usage | | 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. | + | | | | | |
PUT THE FINGER ON | | select | source | | Jonah and the Whale | usage | | Ain't that crazy? Ninety-six million cats for the Lord to put his finger on and he select Jonah. Ain't that groovy? | ]]] | | | | | |
PUT THE SCENE DOWN | | do some work or complete a project | source | | THE HIP EINIE | usage | | 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. | ]]] | | | | | |
PUT THE STRAIGHTNER | | reveal the truth | source | | Hip Hiawatha | usage | | Gitche Manito done say, “at the number nine moon he gonna put the straightner on all us cats.” | ]]] | | | | | |
PUTTIN' DOWN | | creating, generating or demonstrating | source | | NERO | usage | | Man, that chick is puttin' down some action!! | ]]] | | | | | top |
PUTTING THE BURN ON | | staring intently or scrutinizingly at, | source | | BUCKLEY DESCRIBES FIRST JET RIDE | usage | | . . . and all of them putting the burn on me like I had personally cut out with the Statue of Liberty. | ]]] | | | | | |
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