Usually means: Excellent; the highest quality standard.
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We found 8 dictionaries that define the word the bee's knees:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. the bee's knees: Merriam-Webster
  2. the bee's knees: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. the bee's knees, the bee's knees: Collins English Dictionary
  4. the bee's knees: Wiktionary
  5. the bee's knees, the bees knees: Dictionary.com
  6. The Bee's Knees, The Bee's Knees (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. The bee's knees: Phrase Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the bee's knees, the bees knees: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (the bee's knees)

noun:  (idiomatic, colloquial) Something or someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bee, -'s, knee. Corbiculae.


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