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RAP | | speech | source | | MARC ANTHONY'S FUNERAL ORATION | usage | | Here, with the raps from Brutus and the other cats . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
RATTLING THE ROCKETS | | acting in a symbolically threatening manner, similar to the expression "sword rattling" | source | | H-BOMB | usage | | Now the next scene is the Kremlin, Krushchev has just returned from a very big visit, shaking everyone up rattling the rockets and one thing and another. | ]]] | | | | | |
RAZOR'S FLIP | | nearness to death | source | | THE GASSER | usage | | He was right on the edge of the razor's flip. | ]]] | | | | | |
REALM OF NEPTUNARENI | | the oceans of the world | source | | HIP CHRIS | usage | | This swingin' Portuguese cat used to sit on the dock and dig the aqua scene. The flippin', jumpin', stompin' billows of the realm of Neptunareni. | ]]] | | | | | |
REASON FOR LIFE | | a being upon whom one is exclusively fixated | source | | MAHARAJAH | usage | | . . . oh Reason For Life, they told me if I did not do this they would kill you. | | | | | | |
RED EYES | | tearing up | source | | SCROOGE | usage | | And old Scrooge got red eyes. | § | | | | | top |
REDIG | | understand more profoundly upon review | source | | THE NAZZ | usage | | You dug Him before.....Redig Him now!! | | | | | | |
RIFFING | | producing a rhythm or knocking | source | | THE RAVEN | usage | | Suddenly there came a tapping, as if some cat were gently riffing, knocking rhythm at my pad's door. | + | | | | | |
RIGHTEOUS RIDE | | a virtuous pursuit | source | | THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | usage | | That from all these ace-stamped studs we double our love kick to that righteous ride for which these cats hard-sounded the last 'nth bong of the bell of their bell . | ]]] | | | | | |
RING UP A WHOPPER OF ENDLESS OF MARDI-GRAS | | practice a policy of wide-ranging freedom | source | | THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS | usage | | . . . That this nation, under the great swingin' Nazz, shall ring up a whopper of endless Mardi Gras . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
RIPALIPS | | a Buckleyism meaning a fancy holiday food | source | | Scrooge | usage | | 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 . . . | ]]] | | | | | top |
ROCK AND ROLL | | joyous | source | | THE SWINGIN' PIED PIPER | usage | | . . . the rock and roll crowd at the Jazz Piper's back . . ." Also wondrous, ". . . a great rock and roll portal opened wide. | + | | | | | |
ROCKIN' | | playing, as in playing an instrument | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | . . . rockin' the 88's | ]]] | | | | | |
ROMAN THEATRE OF THE FLIP | | The coliseum spectacles of ancient Rome | source | | NERO | usage | | . . . they're gonna lay down the biggest ball game in the history of the Roman Theatre of the Flip. | ]]] | | | | | |
ROSETTE OF THE REVERIE KICK | | exquisite path of daydreaming | source | | SUBCONSCIOUS MIND | usage | | And you go many, many, many other places along that rosette of the reverie kick . . . | ]]] | | | | | |
ROSY WIG | | a healthy, young face | source | | The Swingin' Pied Piper | usage | | All the little boys and girls with their rosy wigs/And cuckoo curls and sparkling peepers | ]]] | | | | | top |
ROYAL COURT, THE | | Buckley's designation for whichever group of people surround him at the time be they audience or friends | source | | MURDER | usage | | My Lords and My Ladies of the Royal Court. . . | ]]] | | | | | |
RUBBERIN' AROUND THE ROOM | | extensively scanning of an area | source | | The Ballad of Dan McGroo | usage | | . . . his eyes went a rubberin' around the room. | ]]] | | | | | |
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