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Define The Bee Knees Meaning

Bees Knees
When bees flit from flower to flower the nectar sticks to their legs. The phrase "bee's knees" means sweet and good, because the knees of the bee are where all the sweet, good stuff is collected.
That definition about moving around really fast is wrong.

You bought me a coffee? You're the bee's knees!
By Wenda
The Bee's Knees
adj. used to describe something in a positive way, c. 1950's.

"that outfit is just the bee's knees!"
By Mari
Bees Knees
Very good, the best

The pants you are wearing are the bee's knees.
By Fredrika
The Bees Knees
excellent - the highest quality.

Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacks on their legs. It is tempting to explain this phrase as alluding to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee's knee.

Alison: Swanson, I think you're wonderful.
Swanson: Well, Alison, I think you're the bees knees.
By Marylinda
Bee's-Knees
A old-fashioned phrase to describe something that is admirable, beautiful, or has some other desirable trait

This sandwich that my wife made is the bee's-knees!
By Bess
Bees Knees
The coolest

Lad's dad-Give this lighter to the bug-eyed, unstable looking girl smoking a cigarette. Yea, the one with the hair that looks like a mix between boy band and skater haircut, she will think you're the bees knees for that.
Lad- That's pretty straightforward and easy, that's all I have to do?
By Alysa
Bee's Knees
A old term that means cool.

Thats the Bee's Knees
By Annnora
Bees' Knees
Slang that originates from America in the 1920's. Similar to today's cool.It expresses a state of excellence in an item or action, but generally not a person.

Try flavored yogurt; it's the bees' knees!
By Hildagard
The Bees Knees
A term commonly meaning cool and hip. One might even say groovy.

Wow this persons vocabulary is just the bees knees
Dangnabbit these old people aren't doofuses, they're the bees knees
By Marillin
Bees Knees
Peachy, very nice, the berries, excellent, fine, beautiful, very good.

That jazz band is the bees knees
By Cherey