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A white, caucasian, or anglo manner of speaking. Similar in meaning to but racially unique from ebonics. Also known as "The King's English," a reference to the language used in the King James version of the Bible, written in England in 1611.
Unlike Jim, who speaks in fluent ebonics, Bob speaks nothing but ivorics. Bob was out of place in the ghetto because of his ivoric manner of speaking.
ivorics by accu May 2, 2005
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tickle the ivories 

To play the piano.

When you 'tickle' something, you touch it lightly. 'Ivories' refers to the white keys on the piano, which used to be made from ivory.
Uncle George tickled the ivories all night long.
tickle the ivories by VAKI5 May 14, 2005
The caucasian paralell to ebonics, basically whitespeech. Make frequent use of the word, "dude," "sup" and "football!!!" Less creative than its pigmentally gifted brother, it is slowly being abandoned by more impressionable white people for evonics, a cross of the two spoken by wankstas.
Aw dude, lets play some football! Yee-haw!
ivonics by Macadaciouse November 7, 2004

To tickle the ivories 

To play the piano.
"Tickling the ivories tickles me in a way, that if Loretta tickled me in that way, I'd say, Oh yea ... that's nice ... that's the spot."
To tickle the ivories by thedude February 16, 2005
Piano keys. Now made from plastic or other synthetics, the keys were once made from elephant tusks.
Skinny Sanderson, you want to lower the lights, serve some champaign, and then tickle the ivories for a spell?
ivories by Mike May 21, 2007
Has gained legitamancy now that Webster-Merriam dictionary now includes "nukular" as a proper pronunciation of nuclear thanks to prez Bush Jr.
"We must show strategery in dealing with 'nukular' powers", Bush said.
ivonics by mrmulan May 13, 2005
Derived from the word "ivory," similar to "ebonics."

Definition: white people lingo
I pride myself on being able to sound semi-articulate when communicating with a professor, however, when I'm get wit my homies, it's like total ivonics up in herrrr.
ivonics by Lexi-Lulu December 4, 2009
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