1. An early version of the term "bebop," i.e., a modern jazz style popularized by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and others. The term continued to be popular in England into the 1970s, and is sometimes combined with "bebop" to produce scat-sounding jive talk--e.g. "Bepob with the Rebop."
2. Cab Calloway uses it generally for joyous, intoxicating music, with a hint (as so often in Cab's hep talk) of drugs (see example).
2. Cab Calloway uses it generally for joyous, intoxicating music, with a hint (as so often in Cab's hep talk) of drugs (see example).
Cab Calloway lyrics, from "Hi De Ho Man" (1947): "How'd you like to blow your top?/Dig yourself some fine rebop?/ Hi de hi, he de he,/ It's the Hi de ho man, that's me!"
by Nick Cusa September 23, 2006
Anita O'Day started off as a canary in the Krupa band, but she really hit her stride later as a jazz soloist.
by Nick Cusa September 20, 2006
A dance that never caught on. Fred Astaire sang a song about "doing the yam" but instant hipness failed him on this score. The continental was more successful
by nick cusa September 14, 2006
A standard of comparison for describing how much fun something is. The "B of m" is usually considered to be less fun that the great time we are having.
by Nick Cusa September 23, 2006
by Nick Cusa September 03, 2006
British expression for a head butt, in street brawls or (illegally) in boxing matches, to break a nose or open a cut. "Nut" is standard British slang for head.
When Henry Cooper, famed British boxer, learned an old foe had died, he commented: "He was a dirty bastard. He liked to put the nut in."
by Nick Cusa June 27, 2011
The thankless task of being the first one to take a hit, from the practice of coal miners of bringing down a caged canary to see if there's dangerous gas below
by Nick Cusa September 20, 2006