SLANG
High approvalthe bee's knees
Jazz Age · 1920–1935 · Greatest Generation
The finest example of something; an object of the highest approval.
“That new record is the bee's knees.”
- Region
- United States
- Subculture
- Jazz clubs
- Canonical key
- bees-knees
Learn more
- Green's Dictionary of Slang — Jonathon Green
Connected expressions
Predecessor · 1960–1979
far out"The bee's knees" is the Jazz Age ancestor of superlative approval slang.