A shape in a drape

A well-dressed person. "Usually she just wears jeans, but she sure is a shape in a drape in that dress."

2. Bright disease
To know too much. "He has bright disease. Make sure he doesn't rat us out."

3. Claws sharp
Being well-informed on a number of subjects. "Reading Mental Floss keeps your claws sharp."

4. Dixie fried
Drunk. "It's Friday and the eagle flies tonight. Let's go get dixie fried."

5. Everything plus
Better than good-looking. "He wasn't just built, he was everything plus."

6. Focus your audio

Listen carefully. "Shut your trap and focus your audio. This is important."

7. Gin mill cowboy

A bar regular. (A gin mill is a bar.) "Cliff Clavin was the _flossiest gin mill cowboy of all time."

8. Hanging paper
Paying with forged checks. "I hope that chick who stole my purse last week goes to jail for hanging paper."

9. Interviewing your brains

Thinking. "I can see you're interviewing your brains, so I'll leave you alone."

10. Jungled up
Having a place to live, or specific living arrangements. "All I know is that he's jungled up with that guy he
met at the gin mill last month."

11. Know your groceries

To be aware, or to do things well. (Similar to Douglas Adams' "know where your towel is.") "You can't
give a TED Talk on something unless you really know your groceries."

12. Lead sled

A car, specifically one that would now be considered a classic model. "His parents gave him their old lead
sled for his sixteenth birthday."

13. Mason-Dixon line

Anywhere out of bounds, especially regarding personal space. "Keep your hands above the Mason-Dixon
line, thanks."

14. Noodle it out

Think it through. "You don't have to make a decision right now. Noodle it out and call me back."

15. Off the cob

Corny. "Okay, some of this old Beat slang is kinda off the cob."

16. Pearl diver

A person who washes dishes. "I'm just a pearl diver at a greasy spoon, but it's a job."
17. Quail hunting
Picking up chicks. "I'm going quail hunting and you're my wingman."

18. Red onion

A hole in the wall; a really crappy bar. "I thought we were going somewhere nice but he just took me to the
red onion on the corner."

19. Slated for crashville

Out of control. "That girl's been in college for five minutes and is already slated for crashville."

20. Threw babies out of the balcony

A big success; interchangeable with "went down a storm." "I was afraid the party would suck, but it threw
babies out of the balcony."

21. Used-to-be
An ex, a person you used to date. "I ran into my used-to-be in Kroger's and I looked terrible."

22. Varicose alley

The runway in a strip club. "Stay in school or you'll be strutting varicose alley, girls."

23. Ways like a mowing machine

An agricultural metaphor for impressive sexual technique, from the song "She's a Hum Dinger" by Buddy
Jones. "She's long, she's tall / She's a handsome queen / She's got ways like a mowing machine." (Let us
know if any of you ever successfully pull this one off in conversation.)

24. X-ray eyes

To understand something, to see through confusion. "That guy is so smart. He's got x-ray eyes."

25. Yard
A thousand dollars. "Yeah, it's nice, but rent is half a yard a week. Let's jungle up somewhere else."

26. Zonk on the head

A bad thing. "It stormed all night and we lost power, but the real zonk on the head was when hail broke the
bedroom window."

A  
Actor:  show-­‐off  
Ain't  that  a  bite:  that's  too  bad  
Angel:  One  who  pays  the  bill  
Ankle  biter:  child  
Apple  butter:  smooth  talk  or  flattery  
Are  you  writing  a  book?:  you're  asking  too  many  questions  
Axe:  Musical  instrument  
 
B  
Baby:  cute  girl  
Back  seat  bingo:  making  out  with  a  girl  in  a  car  
Bad  news:  a  person  who  rejects  a  beatnik  
Bake  biscuits:  to  make  records  
Ballad:  love  letter  
Barrelsville:  Las  Vegas  
Bash:  great  party  
Beat:  Way  of  life  for  a  select  few  
Beakel:  Tourist  
Beatnik:  One  who  lives  like  there's  no  tomorrow  
Beatsville:  a  good  place    
Beat  the  gravel:  leave  
Bennies:  Short  for  Benzedrine,  a  stimulant  
Bent  Brummel:  Bow  Tie  
Big  Daddy  an  older  person  (usually  a  parent)  who  isn't  hip  to  the  beat  scene  
Big  wheel:  a  well  known,  well  respected  person  
Big  tickle:  having  a  laugh  at  the  expense  of  the  victim  
Binoculars:  glasses  
Bit:  an  act  
Blanket:  sandwich  
Blast:  a  fun  time  
Blast  the  Edison:  Turn  off  the  lights  
Blow  the  Jets:  To  become  angry  
Bobbed:  shortened  
Bongo:  small  hand  drum  used  by  beatnik  poets  and  musicians  
Boss:  good  
Bread:  money  
Bright  disease:  to  know  too  much  
Bug:  bother  
Bugged:  bothered  
 
             
What  the  comics  thought  about  beatniks.  
 
C  
Can  the  lip:  stop  talking  
Cap  and  gownship:  teacher  
Cast  an  eyeball:  to  look  
Cat's  pajamas:  really  cool  
Cat:  cool  person;  beatnik,  also  cool  jazz  musician  
Cave:  office  
Chariot:  car  
Cheap  creep:  freeloader  
Cherry  Tree:  to  lie  
Chick:  single  girl  
Chicken:  engaged  girl  
Chili:  a  good  deal  
Chrome  plated:  dressed  up  
Circled:  married  
Clanked:  rejected  
Classy  chassis:  great  body  
Claws  sharp:  to  know  a  lot  about  a  lot  of  subjects  
Clutched:  rejected    
Closet  case:  someone  to  be  ashamed  of  
Cloud  9:  really  happy  
Clyde:  a  general  name  for  anyone,  as  in  "Cool  it,  Clyde."  
Come  on  snake,  let's  rattle:  let's  dance  
Committed:  engaged  to  be  married  
Cooking:  doing  something  really  well  
Cooking  with  gas:  doing  something  really  well    
Cool:  Wonderful,  he  who  enjoys  without  showing  emotion  
Cool  it:  calm  down  
Cool  rod:  cool  automobile  
Cooties:  uncool  people  are  said  to  be  infected  with  cooties  
Cop  a  breeze:  to  leave  
Cop  a  feel:  to  fondle  a  girl's  breast  
Copping  a  bit:  pretending  to  be  cool    
Corral:  schoolyard  
Crazy:  really  interesting  
Cream:  to  damage  a  car  
Creep:  someone  who  is  not  with  it:  a  square  
Crossbar  hotel:  prison;  jail  
Cruisin'  for  a  bruisin':  looking  for  trouble  
Cut  ,  Cut  out:  leave  
Cut  the  gas:  be  quiet  
Cyclops:  eye  glasses  
Cover:  lingerie  
Crazy:  good  
Crazy  quilt:  new  dress  
Creep:  square  
Cube:  non  cool  person  
Cut  out:  leave  
 
D  
Dad:  term  of  affection  
Daddy-­‐o:  Beatnik  
Dame:  girl/woman  
Dibs:  a  claim.    "I  got  dibs  on  that!"  
Dig:  to  understand  
Dildoe:  dippy  dame  
Dippy:  foolish  
Dixie  fried:  drunk  
Dolly:  cute  girl  
Down:  insincere  person  
Drag:  boring  person  
Drowning:  baffled  
Due  backs:  cigarettes  
Dullsville:  unpleasant  place  
Dummy  up:  shut  up  
 
             
Sluggo  wants  to  be  a  beatnik.  
 
E  
Earthbound:  reliable  
Earth  pads:  shoes  
End:  really  wonderful  
Epistle:  letter  to  someone  
Everything  plus:  to  be  really  attractive  
Eyeball:  to  look  
Eyeballing  a  doll:  giving  a  girl  a  good  look  over  
 
 
F  
Face:  a  clock  
Fade  out:  to  disappear  
Fall  in:  to  enter  
Fall  on:  to  rough  someone  up  
Fall  out:  to  leave  
Far  out:  ahead  of  the  times  
Fat  City:  a  great  thing,  place,  or  situation  
Flake  off:  pretty  much  means  the  same  as  f*ck  off  
Flat:  analyst's  couch  
Flat  out:  fast  as  you  can  
Flip:  either  going  actually  insane,  or  really  ecstatic  
Flip  top:  a  convertible  car  
Flutter  bum:  a  good  looking  guy  
Focus  your  audio:  listen  carefully  
Fracture:  to  amuse  
Frail:  broke;  without  money  
Fream:  someone  who  doesn't  fit  in  
Freebee:  freeloader  
Frosted:  angry  
Fuzz:  cops  
Fuzz  rod:  police  car  
Fuzzy  duck:  a  girl  with  short  hair  
 
                  
Beatnik exploitation cinema at its finest.  
 
G  
Galaxy:  one's  circle  of  friends,  group  
Gas:  a  lot  of  fun  
George  change:  change  for  a  dollar  
Germ:  a  pest  
Germsville:  hospital  
Get  bent:  drop  dead  
Get  with  it:  understand  
Gig:  work;  job  
Ginchiest:  the  greatest  
Gin  mill:  bar  
Gin  mill  cowboy:  bar  regular  
Give  me  a  bell:  call  me  on  the  phone  
Give  me  five:  let's  shake  hands  
Go:  exhortation  to  get  with  it;  to  swing  etc.  
Go  Ape:  to  go  crazy  (not  in  the  good  sense  of  the  term)  
Goat:  a  goatee  beard  
Gone:  really  with  it,  swinging  
Goof:  someone  who  makes  mistakes,  or  to  make  a  mistake  
Gooney  roost:  library  
Goopy:  messy  
Graystone  hotel:  jail  
Graveyard:  a  bore  or  deadbeat  
Greaser:  a  guy  with  lots  of  grease  in  his  hair  
Greasy  spoon:  a  really  bad  diner/restaurant      
Green:  money  
Gringles:  worries  
Grody:  sloppy,  messy      
Groove:  an  exciting  thing  to  do  
Groovie:  one  who  understands  the  swing  of  things  
Grundy:  neither  good  or  bad  
 
H  
Hairy:  to  feel  good  
Handcuffs:  parents  
Handle:  your  name  
Hang:  to  do  very  little,  as  in  "hang  out"  
Hanging  paper:  paying  with  forged  checks  
Hang  up:  foolishly  obsessed  over  something  trivial  
Hap:  happening;  the  scene.    As  in  "Get  hip  to  the  hap!"  
Haul  ass:  leave  
Head  shrink  er:  psychoanalyst  
Heart:  a  good  teacher  
Heat:  police  
Hep:  with  it;  cool  
High:  enjoying  oneself  
Hip:  to  be  with  it;  to  understand  
Hipster:  A  kind  of  beatnik;  more  politically  active  or  into  the  arts  
Hit  the  bottle:  to  bleach  one's  hair  
Hootenanny:  a  wild  beat  party  
Horn:  telephone  
Hot  iron:  gun  
Hot  rod:  cool  automobile  
Hound:  the  bus  
Hubcap:  a  guy  who  tries  to  be  a  big  wheel,  but  fails  
Hung  up:  foolishly  obsessed  with  a  subject  
Hustling  Hershey:  ex  
 
             
You  see,  it's  not  a  philosophy  or  way  of  life:  it's  just  a  collection  of  stuff.  
 
I  
Ice  it:  tell  someone  to  forget  about  something  
Ick:  bow  tie  
I'll  clue  you:  I'll  tell  you  about  it  
Illuminations:  good  ideas,  thoughts  
In  orbit:  good;  in  the  know  
Interviewing  your  brains:  thinking  
Iron  pile  up:  getaway  
Ivy:  suit  of  clothes  
Ivy  tower:  university,  college  
 
J  
Jacketed:  going  steady  
Jazz:  beatniks'  favorite  music  
Jazzing:  to  have  sex  
Jets:  smarts;  brains  
Joe  Doe:  a  guy  on  a  blind  date  
Johns:  pants  
Juice:  liquor  
Juicehead:  one  who  drinks  
Juiceman:  bartender  
Jungled  up:  having  specific  living  arrangements  
 
              
"I  know  all  about  beatniks.    I  watch  The  Many  Loves  of  Dobie  Gillis."  
 
K  
Keeper:  parent  
Kick:  a  fad  
Kicks:  the  thrill  you  get  by  doing  something  fun  
Kick  sticks:  cigarettes  
Kill:  to  really  impress  
King's  jive:  English  
Know  your  groceries:  to  be  aware,  or  to  do  things  well  
Knuckles  to  the  creep:  to  hurt  someone  
Kookie:  wild  character  
 
L  
Lama:  leader  of  the  group  
Large  charge:  something  that  is  exciting  
Later:  goodbye  
Lay  dead:  wait  a  minute  
Lay  on:  to  give  
Lead  sled:  an  old  car  
Leathers:  shoes  
Lid:  hat  
Lighting  up  the  tilt  sign:  lying  
Like:  a  word  used  to  add  emphasis.    "He  was,  like,  mad!"  
Little  monsters:  children  
Long  greens:  lots  of  money  
Long  johns:  pants  
Low:  depressed  
Lumpy:  mediocre  
 

             
Beatniks  in  the  news!  
  
M  
Made  in  the  shade:  success  guaranteed  
Madison  Avenue:  sharp,  cunning  
Make:  accomplish  an  action  
Make  it:  cope  
Make  out:  a  kissing  session  
Make  the  scene:  to  attend  an  event  or  activity  
Make  with  cover:  to  get  dressed  
Man:  a  catchall  word,  sometimes  a  greeting,  but  usually  used  to  end  a  
sentence.    "Those  cats  were  cool,  man."  
Mark:  signature  
Mason-­‐Dixon  line:  anything  out  of  bounds,  especially  regarding  personal  space  
Mazda:  a  very  cool  person  
Men  house:  security  house  
Mickey  Mouse:  wrist  watch  
Moldy:  bad  teacher  
Money  run:  easy  
Moo  goo:  butter  
Moo  juice:  milk  
Moss,  moss:  etc.,  etc  
Most:  as  in  "the  most"    high  praise  
Murgatroid:  an  outcast,  a  non  cool  person  
Muscle  cats:  rock  and  rollers  
Mush:  homework  
 
N  
Nadaville:  a  dull  place  
Negative  perspiration:  easy  
Nerd:  this  word  means  the  same  now  as  it  did  back  then  
Nest:  a  hairstyle  
Night  shift:  a  slumber  party  
Nod:  drift  off  to  sleep  
Noodle  it  out:  think  it  through  
Nosebleed:  stupid,  as  in  "Hey,  nosebleed!"  
No  sweat:  no  problem  
Noheresville:  a  boring  place  
Nuggets:  loose  change  
 
 
             
"I've  never  even  seen  pictures  of  real  beatniks,  but  I  think  I  can  wing  it."  
 
O  
Oblong: another word for square; someone who does not fit in  
Odd  ball:  a  strange  person  
Off:  to  steal  
Off  the  cob:  corny  
Off  the  wall:  very  unusual  
Old  fogey:  old,  uncool  person  
On  pills:  dieting  
On  the  hook:  in  love  
On  the  stick:  prepared  
Orbs:  eyes  
 
P  
Pad:  living  quarters  
Pale  one:  dull  person  
Panic  and  a  half:  a  very  funny  joke  
Paper  shaker:  cheerleader  
Party  pooper:  killjoy  
Passion  pit:  drive  in  movie  
Pearl  diver:  a  person  who  washes  dishes  for  a  job  
Peepers:  glasses  
Phony:  insincere  person  
Picayunish:  petty;  worthless  
Pick  up  on:  to  understand  
Pig:  cop  
Pile  up  Zs:  sleep  
Pinky's  out  of  jail:  your  slip's  showing  
Play  dead:  keep  quiet  
Plucked  chicken:  married  girl  
Pod:  marijuana  
Pooper:  no  fun  at  all  
Poorboy:  something  substantial  and  inexpensive,  like  a  big  bottle  of  cheap  wine  
Pound:  beat  up  
Proof:  identification  that  shows  you're  old  enough  to  buy  liquor  
Pucker  palace:  drive  in  movie  
Punk:  a  weak,  useless  person  
Put  an  egg  in  your  shoe  and  beat  it:  leave  
Put  down:  reject  
 
             
Beatnik  marketing.  
 
Q  
Quail  hunting:  pick  up  chicks  
Queen:  a  popular  girl  
Quote:  to  repeat  oneself  
 
R  
Radioactive:  Very  popular  
Rags:  sportswear  
Rag  top:  convertible  car  
Rap:  to  tattle  on  someone  
Rat:  talk  to  the  authorities  
Rattle  your  cage:  to  get  upset  
Raunchy:  messy,  disgusting  
Razz  my  berries:  interest  me  
Real  gone:  very  much  in  love.    can  also  mean  unstable  
Red  onion:  a  really  crappy  bar  
Refuel:  eat  
Righto:  okay  
Rock:  diamond  
Round  up  time:  end  of  summer  vacation  
Roust:  under  arrest  
Running  lights:  eyes  
 
             
He  also  wrote  science  fiction.    Go  figure.  
 
S  
Saint  Beatnik:  Santa  Claus  
Salty:  angry  
Scene:  something  that's  happening,.  or  a  place  where  it's  happening  
Scooch:  friend  
Scorch:  popular  
Scream:  go  fast  
Set  of  wheels:  car  
Sewer:  someone  who  is  incapable  of  keeping  a  secret  
Shades:  sunglasses  
Shake  it:  forget  it  
Shape  in  a  drape:  a  well  dressed  person  
Short  trip  to  Rio:  coffee  break  
Shot  down:  failed  
Shuck/Shuckster:  a  liar;  a  cheat  
Sides:  vinyl  records  
Sing:  to  tattle  or  inform  on  someone  
Skin:  dollar  
Skinny:  broke;  out  of  money  
Slated  for  crashville:  out  of  control  
Slides:  photos  
Slip  me:  give  me  
Slodge:  friend  
Sluff:  to  cut  classes  
Slurg:  milkshake  
Smog  in  the  noggin:  to  forget  something  
Snagged  stag:  going  steady  
Snowed:  infatuated  
Soco:  social  conscience  
Solo  flight:  going  stag  
Something  else:  so  cool  it  defies  description  
Sophie:  one's  girlfriend  
Sounds:  music  
Spadiodi:  beatnik  drink  of  port  and  cheap  whiskey  
Spaz:  someone  who  is  uncoordinated  
Split:  leave  
Square:  non  cool  person  
Squaresville  iron:  jail  
Squaresville  peep:  police  lineup  
Squatchel:  having  sex  
Stable:  garage  
Stable  the  iron:  park  the  car  
Stick  city:  Nowheresville  
Stoolie:  informer  
Straight:  reliable,  honest  
Subterranean:  a  hipster  
Swimsville:  a  good  place  
Swing/swinging:  to  really  understand  something  worth  digging  
Swinging  like  sixteen:  really  wild  
Swings  in  squareville:  inferiority  complex  
 
 
T  
Tank:  a  large  sedan  
That's  close:  something  is  wrong  or  untrue  
The  man:  cops  
Thin  one:  dime  
Threads:  clothes  
Threw  babies  out  of  the  balcony:  to  be  successful  
Thrill  pills:  Benzedrine,  Dexedrine  
Tight:  good  friends  
Torniquette:  wedding  ring  
Touch  home:  to  make  sense  
Tough  toenails:  very  difficult  
Tube  steak:  hot  dog  
Tuned  in:  with  it  
Tuned  out:  to  go  away  
Turn  on:  to  inspire;  also,  to  get  involved  with  Beat  culture,  and  can  be  used  to  mean  
language  to  shock  tourists  
Turn  up  the  stereo:  listen  to  me  
Twin  trees:  high  heels  
 
             
Yes,  even  Hollywood  just  didn't  get  it.  
 
U  
Unborn:  extremely  naive  
Unreal:  exceptional  
Used  to  be:  a  person  you  used  to  date  
 
V  
Vacant:  uncertain  
Varicose  alley:  the  runway  in  a  strip  club  
Vitamin  village:  grocery  store  
 
             
Beats  in  the  news.    Left:  The  actual  number  was  multiplied  by  only  about  500%.    Right:  
no  false  dichotomy  there!  
 
W  
Wail:  to  play  a  tune  well  
Warden:  a  teacher  
Washington:  dollar  bill  
Wasteland:  far  away  
Way  out:  unusual,  innovative,  extreme  
Ways  like  a  mowing  machine:  impressive  sexual  technique  
Weed:  cigarette  
Weird  with  a  beard:  really  weird  "He's  weird  with  a  beard,  man!"    
Went  down  a  storm:  to  be  successful  
Wet  rag:  someone  who's  no  fun;  unpopular  
What's  buzzin',  cuzzin?:  what's  going  on?  
What's  your  tale,  nightingale?:  what's  your  story  
Wig:  to  make  others  flip  
Wig  chop:  a  haircut  
Wigged  out:  to  get  really  annoyed.  
Whistleburg:  a  place  where  many  girls  pass  by  
Wild:  unusual  
With  it:  to  be  aware;  understanding  
Word  from  the  bird:  the  truth  
Words:  an  attorney  
 
X  
X  ray  eyes:  to  understand  something;  to  see  through  confusion  
 
                         
And  if  you're  too  chicken  o  be  a  beatnik  you  can  always  read  about  them,  and  cook  
what  they  eat.  
 
Y  
Yard:  one  thousand  dollars  
Yoot:  youngster  
You  make  the  king's  jive:  your  English  is  good  
You  rang?:  an  acknowledgment  that  someone  mentioned  you    
 
Z  
Zonked:  intoxicated  
Zonk  on  the  head:  a  bad  thing  
Zoot:  obsolete  
Zorros:  the  jitters  
 

Hipsters Loved Jazz

In some ways, the Beatniks' music was way "cooler" (a very Beat word.)

"Hipster," as Kerouac used it, is one of the lead slang terms of the generation. Hipsters were aficionados of
jazz music, and the entire jazz lifestyle. That included a particular lingo, dress, and attitude, and probably
the first systematic use of marijuana in an American subculture.

The word "hipster" ultimately replaced the slang "hepcat," which was pretty much a jazz subculture
follower of decades earlier.

Anyone who was a hipster was in constant pursuit of whatever was "cool," a slang term that survives to this
day. In the late 40s, that included a combination of jazz and bebop, or bop, music, a takeoff on jazz, but
with a quicker beat and lots of improvisation.

Dating for the Beat Generation

Hipsters were also relaxed about other conventional social mores, including sex. Jazz musicians attracted
their own followings; the hipsters were, in their day, a bit like groupies (band followers).

Let's say you're interested in a girl. The first looks translate into "eyeballing a doll" (that is, giving the
potential date a good lookover.)

You envision what'd it be like to take her out. You anticipate it being an incredible amount of fun; or in
Beat-speak, "a gas."

But if the chick nixes the "back seat bingo" (a phrase devoted to the fine art of kissing, or making out, with
a girl in a car), she'd be "bad news." It's important to note that it's not the act of rejection, but the person
themselves, who is the "bad news."

About Beat Slang in the 1950s

State of Coolness
But how serious is this chick? Does she really have to be home early to "Big Daddy," or is she just
"copping a bit"?
In this usage, Big Daddy may indeed be the potential date's father. But more likely, it's an older person who
isn't hep to the Beat scene (and wants to put a damper on Beatnik fun.)

The date herself may very well be a closet square; that's why she's "copping a bit" (making up an act to
delude the Beatnik.)

Squares are an abundant source for Beatniks of "the big tickle" (a laugh at the expense of the victim.) But
hey, it's not like they were cool to begin with! No big loss in Beat society.

Such a person is known as a "square" or "cube" in Beat slang in the 1950s.

The only major differences were the degree of "squareness." A waitress, for example, might be square, but
she probably wasn't nearly as square as, say, a banker, an accountant, or - the worst yet! - a cop.

Anti-police Slang
Because of their "on the brink" lifestyle, and their engagement in activities that were either straight out or
borderline illegal, the worst enemy a beatnik had was an officer of the law.

This may be the first time the use of the word "pig" as a slang slur against policemen had been used.

If a beatnik saw a bunch of cops heading toward a hipster hangout, he'd "haul ass" or "beat the gravel" (run
like crazy to get away from them, since cops were never up to any good in Beatnik circles.)

More Cool Words

Beat culture had many ways of describing the ultimate amazing experience. Did you cats have a blast?
That's like saying the Daddy-o Beatniks were cookin'!

Both phrases have similar meanings. "Cats" and "Daddy-o" are variation on the Beatnik self-descriptive
"hipster" word to describe, well, themselves! Beatniks are nothing if not self-referential.

A blast and cooking? No, it's not the prelude to a Beatnik barbecue. A blast to the Beats is pretty much the
same as it is to modern day partiers: a fun time. If you were cookin', it's a high compliment, indeed. It
merely meant you were doing something well (as in a jazz musician, favorites of the Beats, playing a hot
horn so much so that the patrons said he was "cooking.")

More Beat Slang

If you dig it, man, that's crazy! (This is all a good thing among Beats.)

"Digging" is getting, or understanding, something, just like being "in orbit"; and "crazy," like "boss!", are
both euphemisms for something that's just plain old good.

Just don't "go ape," especially at "the flicks," or your fellow movie patrons are apt to get "wigged out."
(That means don't yell at the movies, or it's apt to annoy the rest of the audience.)

Are you out to get your "kicks" by "making the scene"? The kicks is the thrill you get by doing something
fun or incredible; and if you're "making the scene," you're in the right place at the right time.