bee's knees

noun

: a highly admired person or thing : cat's meow

Synonyms

• beaut
• beauty
• cat's meow
• corker
• crackerjack
• crackajack
• daisy
• dandy
• dilly
• doozy
• doozie
• doozer
• dream
• honey
• hot stuff
• humdinger
• hummer
• jim-dandy
• knockout
• lollapalooza
• lulu [slang]
• nifty
• peach
• pip
• pippin
• ripper
• ripsnorter
• snorter
• sockdolager
• sockdologer
• standout
• sweetheart

Examples of bee's knees in a Sentence

can't get enough of your apple pie—it's the bee's knees as my grandmother would say

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above