The glossary entries:
Angel = One who pays the bill
Axe = Musical instrument
Beat = Way of life for a select few Thank God!
Beatnik = One who lives like there’s no tomorrow
Beatkel =Tourist
Blow the Jets = To become angry
Bread = money
Bugged = bothered
Beatsville, Swinsville = a good place (for beatniks)
Blast the Edison = Turn off the lights
Bent Brummel = Bow Tie
Barrelsville = Las Vegas
Cat = Cool Jazz musician
Cool = Wonderful, he who enjoys without showing emotion
Crazy = good beatnik, accepted
Cube = worse than square, strict conformity
Chick = single girl
Chicken = engaged girl
Plucked chicken = married woman
Cover = lingerie
Make with cover = to get dressed
Cheap creep = freeloader
Cave = office
Can the lip = stop talking
Cyclops = eye glasses
Cool it = slow down
Crazy quilt = new dress
To “Cherry Tree” = to lie
Dad, Daddy O = Term of affection
Dullsville = unpleasant place
Dig = to understand
Dummy up = shut up
The End = the most wonderful
Face = identification
Freebee = freeloader
Flat = analyst’s couch
Fuzz = police, federal agents
Fall in = to enter
Fall on = rough an individual up
Fall out = to leave, exit
Flick = motion picture
Goat = beard, goatee
A groove = a thrilling exciting thing to do
A groovie = one who understands the swing of things
A gas = something wonderful
Gone = really with it, swinging
Ginchiest = the greatest
Galaxy = one’s circle of friends, group
Germsville = hospital
Cooney roost = library
George change = change for a dollar
Graveyard = deadbeat
Hip = to be with it, to understand
Hipster = best character, musician
Hootenanny = a wild beat party
To feel hairy = to feel good
Handcuffs = parents
Head shrinker = psychoanalyst
To be high = enjoying oneself
Men house = security house
Hustling Hershey = ex
The Horn = the telephone
An Ivy = suit of clothes
Ivy tower = university, college
Iron pile up = getaway
Hot iron = a gun
Icck = a bow tie
Jazz = music, collection of items
Jazzing = to make love
Juice = liquor
Juicehead = one who drinks
Juiceman = bartender
Johns, Long Johns = trousers
Kick sticks = cigarettes
King’s jive = English language
Kookie = wild character
Knuckles to the creep = to do physical harm to someone
The Lama = the leader of the group
Later = goodbye
Leathers = shoes
Large charge = double drinks
A mazda = a very hip person
Moo juice = milk
Moo goo = butter
To make = accomplish an action
Moss, moss = etc. etc.
A mickey mouse = a wrist watch
Murgatroid = an outcast, a square, a dope
Money run = very easy, ordinary
Muscle cats = rock and roll-ers
Nadaville = nowhere, dull place
Orbs = eyes
Our St. Beatnik = Santa Claus
Off the wall = very far out, extremely unusual
Pad = apartment
Pick up on = to dig, to understand
Pucker palace = drive in movie
Rags = sportswear
Short trip to Rio = coffee break
Hot or Cool Rod = nice automobile
Fuzz rod = police car
Swinging = one who is with it
Swinging like sixteen = really wild
Shades = sun glasses
Swings in squareville = inferiority complex
Squaresville iron = jail
Squaresville peep = police line up
Stable = garage
Stable the iron = park the car
Solo flight = going stag
Snagged stag = going steady
Shake it = forget it
Soco = social conscience
Slides = photograph records
Squatchel = love making
Turn up the stereo = listen to me
Torniquette = wedding ring
Twin trees = high heels
Thrill pills = benzadene, dexidrine
Tough toenails = very difficult
Tuned in = with it
Vitamin village = grocery store
A Washington = a dollar bill
A words = an attorney
Way out = unusual
Wild = terrific, unusual
To wail = to have a good time, to play a tune well
Whistleburg = Centre where many girls pass by
Wasteland = far away