Are You Hep to the Jive? The Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary

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	Are You Hep to the Jive? The Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary

Efrain Alvarado

9-27-2008 12:32 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e0133aae-9b48-4537-99ea-dcf200fc6800/8B34D321-0E71-4111-8548-72414CF1FF9D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/" href="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/" style="font-size: 11px;">artofmanliness.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/artofmanliness.com/img/7E20BCE2-31CD-476A-B119-D7962D4288D4" alt="cab-calloway Are You Hep to the Jive? The Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><P>Each generation has their own slang and lingo, a language that defines them. Each generation also has a purveyor of cool who creates a language that only the initiated understand. During the 1950s and 60s, <A href="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/02/11/talk-like-frank-sinatra/">Frank Sinatra created a personal lingo</A> that influenced a generation of swanky and swaggering men.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><P>But before Sinatra, there was Cab Calloway.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/08wOPt-2PeE&hl=en&fs=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><P>So are you ready to get hep to the jive?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><STRONG>INSTRUMENTS</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Guitar: Git Box or Belly-Fiddle</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Bass: Doghouse</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Drums: Suitcase, Hides, or Skins</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Piano: Storehouse or Ivories</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Saxophone: Plumbing or Reeds</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Trombone: Tram or Slush-Pump</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Clarinet: Licorice Stick or Gob Stick</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Xylophone: Woodpile</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Vibraphone: Ironworks</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Violin: Squeak-Box</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Accordion: Squeeze-Box or Groan-Box</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Tuba: Foghorn</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Electric Organ: Spark Jiver</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><STRONG>JIVE TERMINOLOGY</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A hummer (n.) — exceptionally good. Ex., “Man,      that boy is a hummer.”</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Apple (n.) — the big town, the main stem, Harlem.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Barbecue (n.) — the girl friend, a beauty</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Beat up the chops (or the gums) (v.) — to talk,      converse, be loquacious.</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://artofmanliness.com/2008/09/25/are-you-hep-to-the-jive-the-cab-calloway-hepster-dictionary/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/artofmanliness.com/img/5E14FA7A-7372-4DD6-99F5-3F5217DDE6B7" alt="cabcalloway Are You Hep to the Jive? The Cab Calloway Hepster Dictionary" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8B34D321-0E71-4111-8548-72414CF1FF9D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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