Every generation has its own slang. I remember growing up and saying phrases and words and my parents acting all, “WTF?”.  Every generation, every decade, has their thing and  that got me thinking: how fun would it be to dig into some of the weirder slang terms used over the past hundred years?

You game to see how many you recognize? Better yet, how many you still use yourself? Then let’s go!

Bash: A drunken spree

Goop: A stupid person

Hanging: Excellent, outstanding (“Hanging new tie there, old man!”)

Hep: Part of the current musical culture (“That cat is hep!”)

Hawkshaw: A detective

Wisenheimer: Someone who thinks he or she is smarter than everyone else

Date: A stupid person

Duck soup: Something easy

Gas: A joke

Grifter: A con artist

Hoosegow: Prison

Jake: Alright (e.g., “Is everything Jake out here?”)

On the make: Flirting, making advances on people (“Sandra was really on the make last night.”)

Meathook: A hand (preferably used while yelling at the police to stop dragging you to the hoosegow — “Get yer meathooks off me!”)

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Bank’s closed: No kissing or making out (“Sorry babe, bank’s closed.”)

Butt me: Give me a cigarette

Cash or check?: Do you kiss now or later?

Chassis: The female body

Copacetic: Wonderful, fine, all right

Dead soldier: An empty beer bottle

Drugstore cowboy: A guy that hangs around on a street corner, trying to pick up girls

“I have to go see a man about a dog”: To go buy whiskey

Fish: A college freshman or a first-timer in prison

Get a wiggle on: To get going

Giggle juice: Alcohol

Glad rags: Going out clothes

Horsefeathers!: An expletive

Juice Joint: A speakeasy

Moll: A gangster’s girl

Orchid: Something expensive

Ossified: Drunk

Scrooched: Drunk

Splifficated: Drunk

Zozzled: Drunk

(boy, they had a lot of words for drunk!!!)

Abercrombie: A know-it-all

Abyssinia: I’ll be seeing you

Blow your wig: To become really excited

Bumping gums: To talk about nothing useful

Butter and egg man: The man with the money

Dog soup: A glass of water

Dizzy with a dame: To be really in love with a woman, possibly at risk of danger for oneself

Eggs in coffee: To run smoothly, or a general phrase of approval

Snipe: A cigarette

The kiss off: The final exit, as in death

“You shred it, wheat!”: You said it

Cook with gas: To do something right

Dead hoofer: A bad dancer

Ducky shincracker: A good dancer

“Hi sugar, are you rationed?”: Are you going steady?

Motorized freckles: Insects

Pennies from heaven: Easy money

Ankle-biter: A child

“Are you writing a book?”: You’re asking too many questions

Back seat bingo: Making out in a car

D.D.T.: “Drop dead twice.” (Appropriate response: “What, and look like you?”)

Frosted: Angry

Lay a patch: To accelerate so rapidly you leave a patch of rubber on the road

Subterranean: A hipster

All show and no go: Looks good superficially

Bogart: To keep for yourself

Fine as wine: Good looking

Five finger discount: To steal something

Foam domes: padded bras

Mirror warmer: Woman who spends a lot of time looking in the mirror

Submarine races: An excuse given for parking next to the water to make out — you’re there to watch the “submarine races”

Bogue: Used to describe something offensive or an unrealistic idea

Bone jack: To steal a dead person’s style

Brick house: A well-built woman

Decent: Cool

“Does anybody remember laughter?”: A popular joke phrase started by Robert Plant during a ’70s performance of “Stairway to Heaven”

Sit on it: An insult, i.e., “Sit on it, creep!”

Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid: Get out of my business

What a fry: Something or someone that blows your mind, is weird, or crazy

Ash people: People who wore all black (goths)

Bag your face: Put a bag over your face, i.e., you’re ugly

Barf me out: Valley Girl expression used to express disgust

“Cheeuh!”: Yeah, totally, duh; basically just a sound

Clydesdale: A big all-American boy

Kirk out: To freak out

Mall-maggot: Kids hanging out at the mall who don’t have anything better to do

What’s your damage?: What’s your problem?

Zeek: A major geek

Bone out: To leave

Bugging: Freaking out

Cheddar: Money

Lurker: A person who enters electronic chat rooms without making a contribution

Props: Short for “proper dues;” to give someone credit

Talk to the hand: Super sassy ’90s phrase that just means you’re ignoring someone

Scrub: A loser guy

Wacked: Used to describe someone who’s totally weird or crazy

Wazzup: What you say when meeting up with friends

Chillax: Relax and chill, man

Bling: Expensive, flashy jewelry

Biatch: A clever way of saying “bitch” without saying “bitch”

Buzzin’: Blissfully happy

Diss: To disrespect someone

‘Sup: A greeting; short for “what’s up?”

Bouya!: A term to show triumph

Digits: Telephone number; “Give me your digits and I’ll holla (call) you back when I get home.”

Sending you good laughs, and…

 Namaste

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