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

Rhymes for bee's knees

• agrees
• appease
• bailees
• bougies
• burmese
• chemise
• chickpeas
• chinese
• cowpeas
• curies
• decrees
• degrees