Complete Definition of "put the bee on"

English

Verb
to put the bee on

  1. context|slang|mainly|US to finish off, to beat

#:*2001: When Carmen quipped in, �Well, Mr. President somebody has to put the bee on them,� the General asserted, �It won't be me, never.� � Travis Beal Jacobs, Eisenhower at Columbia (Transaction 2001, p. 152)

  1. context|slang|mainly|US to beg; to borrow money from

#:*1938: Sometimes I'd see a woman in the backyard, and, if she had a kind face I'd put the bee on her. � Clifford Robe Shaw, Henry Donald McKay?, et al., Brothers in Crime (University of Chicago 1938, p. 157)

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