[Dixielandjazz] "Shine" lyric is slang
Arnold Day
arnieday at optonline.net
Tue Nov 2 16:59:45 PST 2004
That's what I always understood.....from "take a PEEP at".
Arn
----- Original Message -----
From: Butch Thompson
To: djml
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:07 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] "Shine" lyric is slang
On 11/2/04 2:00 PM, "dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com"
<dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com> wrote:
> Surely this means to take a pipe (to beat) the person referred to as
> "Shine".
No no no. This is vintage slang; "pipe" means "look at," nothing more.
Butch Thompson
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