The way we used to talk
I never thought bout it much but how about the Language of the 60s & 70s. How much of it do you still say? How much of it do kids today not understand? Guess we're lucky if they can write cursive or tell time these days.
1.A Gas - Having a lot of fun.
2.All Show and No Go - Pretty car. Nice wheels and so forth. Looks good put has no go power.
3.Ape: Used with verbs gone or went. (i.e. "When I came home an hour late my parents went ape.)
4.BA - Could mean Bare All or Bare Ass.
5.Bad - Awesome
6.Bad Ass - Tough guy
7.Bag - Meant to steal. Who bagged my wallet? Also "what's your bag?",which meant "What's your
problem?"
8.Ball - To Party as in Little Richard's song "Good Golly Miss Molly,you sure like to ball." Also meant
to have intercourse.
9.Bum a Smoke - Borrow a cigarette from another person
10.Beat Feet - Leave the area quickly.
11.Birth Control Seats - Referred to cars with bucket seats
12.Bitchin' - Good, great, or awesome
13.Blast - Had a great time like "I had a blast at thedance."
14.Blitzed - Drunk
15.Book - Leave the scene
16.Bookin' - Going real fast
17.Boss - Cool or fantastic - The new album I just bought isboss!
18.Bread - Money
19.Brew - Beer
20.Brody or Brody Out - To skid half a circle with your brakes lockedup.
21.Bug Out - Leave the premises
22.Bummed Out - Depressed
23.Burn Rubber - Squeal out with your tires spinning and leaving rubberon the asphalt.
24.Candyass - A Wimp or uncool thing or person.
25.Cat- Guy
26.Catch some Z's - Go to sleep
27.Cherry - Pristine or mint condition. That car is cherry!
28.Chick - girl or woman
29.Chicken (To Play) - Two cars drive head on towards each other andthe first to pull away is a coward.
30.Chinese Firedrill - A Car is stopped at a red light and alloccupants of the car get out of the car and
run around it and get back in the carwhile holding up traffic.
31.Church Key - Before poptop cans, there were openers thatwere designed to puncture the beer can to
drink from it.
32.Chrome Dome - Bald Man
33.Clean - Exceptional looking i.e. That'sa clean looking Chevy
34.Cool - Nice
35.Cool Head - Nice guy
36.Cool Pipes - Mellow sounding exhaustsystem
37.Cop a Feel - Touchinga girl's no touch zone pretending it was accidental.
38.Cotties - Unkind remark, As in "Stayaway she's got cooties" (bugs)
39.Crash - go to bed / sleep
40.Cruising - Driving up and down the strip, street or town looking formembers of the opposite sex.
41.Cutout - leave the scene or area (also see Split)
42.D.A. - Guy hair style. Combed like aduck's ass
43.Decked Out - All Dressed Up
44.Dibs - Used with the word got. "I got dibs on that seat." Meaning you own it.
45.Dig - Do you understand?
46.Ditz - An idiot
47.Don't Flip Your Wig - In other words don't go ape.
48.Don't Have A Cow - (See above)
49.Don't Sweat It - Don't let it bother you.
50.Drag - Race for a short distance. Also means dull. Also, a puff froma cigarette.
51.Drop a Dime - use the pay phone
52.Dude - A geek
53.Fab - Fantastic
54.Fag - A cigarette
55.Far-out - awesome . Also see outta sight
56.Fine as Wine - Good-looking - as Theguy or girl is "fine as wine"
57.Fink - Tattletale
58.Five Finger Discount - Anything acquired by theft
59.Flake - A useless person
60.Flip Flops - Thongs that you wore on your feet
61.Floor Box - floor mounted transmissionshifter
62.Flower Child - A Hippie
63.Foam Domes - padded bras
64.Four on the Floor - See Floor Box
65.Fox - An outstanding looking chick (also see "StoneFox")
66.Freakin' Out - getting excited or a panic attack
67.Fuzz - The Police
68.Go All The Way - Have Sex
69.Going Steady - Dating only one person
70.Groovy - Nice or neat
71.Glasspacks - Mufflers lined with fiberglass to muffle the sound. Theshorter the muffler the louder
the sound.
72.Gum Ball Machine - the old fashion lights on a police cruiser
73.Hacked or Hacked Off - Mad or teed off.
74.Hairy - Out of control
75.Hang Loose - Take it easy
76.Hauls Ass - A car really moves. "Tom's Chevy sure hauls ass."
77.Hickey - See Love Bite
78.Hip - Very Cool
79.Hodad - a non-surfer, just hangs around the beach
80.Hopped up - Souped up like a car
81.Hunk - What a girl calls a good looking guy
82.Kissup - Teacher's Pet or person that will do anything to pleaseanother person in authority.
83.Later - Goodbye
84.Lay A Patch - Burn rubber with car wheels as you leave
85.Lay It On Me - Tell me or speak your piece
86."Let's hat up" - generally used in the military. Since you had to wear a hat while in uniform while
outside so when leaving a building you would say "lets hat up
87.Loaded - Intoxicated or drunk
88.Love Bite - Also known as a hickey - Red mark on a person madeby suction of a kiss by lips and
tongue.
89.Make Out - Kissing
90.Meanwhile Back At The Ranch - It was used to get the storytellerback on track to the story he was
telling. In other words, get to the point. It was meant to keep itshort. Phrase came from serial westerns.
91.Midnight Auto Supply - Auto parts stolen
92.Mill. Engine - As in, "What kind of mill you running in that thing?"
93.Moo Juice - milk
94.Moon - To drop your pants and show your bare butt
95.Neato - Sharp
96.Old Lady or Old Man - Referred to Mom and Dad [Now days may referto wife of husband]
97.On the Rag - in a foul mood
98.Open Pipes - Loud car withoutmufflers. "Hey man, sounds like you're running open pipes"
99.Outta Sight or Out ofSight - awesome Also see Far Out
100.Padiddle - A car with only one headlight working.
101.Passion Pit - Drive-in Movie
102.Pedal Pushers - calf high pants worn by girls called today"capris"
103.Peel Out - Burn or leave rubber with your car
104.Pig - Cop or a Promisculous Girl
105.Pig Out - Overeat
106.Pits, the the worst, nasty, bad, awful,meaningless (i.e. "this place is the pits")
107.Pound - To beat up somebody i.e. "I'm gonna poundyou."
108.Queer - Something to be considereddorky or dumb, as in: Those shoes are so queer! Also, a
derogatory slang word for a homosexualperson. [Thanks to Leslie Hardman, Orient, Ohio)
109.Rap - to talk
110.Rave On - Please keep it going
111.Retard - A really socially inept, dorkyperson (insensitive word to use today)
112.Ride - car, truck, or motorcycle
113.Right On - exactly or I second that.
114.Score - Going all the way with a girl
115.Shades - Sunglasses
116.Sharp - Real Good Looking
117.Shotgun - Passenger seat in the front seat of a car next to thedoor. The place of honor. You had to
call out "shotgun" first to win the honor. Once you vacate the car thehonor is once again up for grabs.
118.Skag - An ugly girl
119.Skank - See Skag
120.Skirt - A girl
121.Skuzz - Low down, disgusting person also used as Skuzzbucket which could mean an ugly car as
well.
122.Slam Book - a passaround book filled with questions to answer on your fellow classmates.
123.Slug Bug/Safety Pin - If you see someone with aVolkswagon beetle you yell out Slug Bug. But if
the person you intend to hit yells Safety pin, you can't hit them.
124.Slut - very promiscuous girl
125.Split - leave the scene or area (Also see Cutout)
126.Solid - I got it or I'm with you
127.Square - Somebody not cool
128.Stacked - A girl well endowed or built
129. Stoned - High on pot
130. Stone Fox - Extremely beautiful girl
131.Stood Up - A no-show for a date
132.Stuck Up - Conceited
133.Submarine Races - Parking next to a water shore to wait for thesubmarine races to which of course
was only an excuse to park and make out.
134.Swapping Spit - French Kissing to the maximum
135.Sweat Hog - Fat Chick or Fat Guy
136.The Bird - The Middle Finger
137.Threads - clothes
138. Toke - taking a puff on a joint
139.Tough or Tuff - Great looking or cherry "She sure is a toughchick"
140.Toys in the attic or she's gottoys - a young woman too immature or naive for her age
141. Twitchin - Like Bitchin and means the same thing.
142.Wedgie - When somebody pulls your underwear up from the back andends in the crack. Some of
today's underwear are made for that purpose; they call them thongs.
143.Wiz, Take a - Urinate
144.Woody - An erection
145.Zits - Pimples