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Slang has always been the
province of the young. Words come in and out of favor in direct proportion to
the speed with which they travel through the age ranks. Once college kids know
that high school kids are using a term, it becomes passe. And seniors don't
want to sound like freshman and so forth. Once a word finds its way to
mainstream media or worse, is spoken by parents, no young person with any
self-respect would use it. Fifties slang wasn't particularly colorful as these things go. The Sixties, with its drug and protest culture to draw from, would be slang heaven. In the Fifties, hot-rodders and Beats provided inspiration. . About the Beat Culture. This was by no means a mainstream movement. I didn't actually know any Beats nor I suspect did most of my peers across America. But they sure seemed "cool" to us. A sharp contrast from the way real teens lived in a preppy, conservative, conformist world. Many of these words, in fact most words can have "ville" added to them. There was coolsville, deadsville, Doodyville, squaresville, weirdsville and so forth. For those of you seeing this without reading glasses, here's a piece of news for you. "Cool" was our word. We said it a bit differently. Today it is said in a more clipped way. We tended to drag out the pronunciation. But we had it first; we were the originals. In the Slang Dictionary below, I have tried to indicate which group used a term or at least it's derivation, if warranted. And there's a seperate page for Kookie Talk. This is the oft imitated lingo of TV's most famous carpark from 77 Sunset Strip. |
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| Actor | Show-off |
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| Agitate the Gravel | To leave (hot-rodders) | |
| Ankle-biter | A child | |
| Ape | Used with go - to explode or be really mad | |
| Are you writing a book? | You're asking too many questions | |
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| Baby | Cute girl, term of address for either sex | |
| Back seat bingo | Necking in a car | |
| Bad news | Depressing person | |
| Bash | Great party | |
| Bent eight | a V-8 engine (hot-rodders) | |
| Big Daddy | An older person | |
| Big tickle | Really funny | |
| Bit | An act | |
| Blast | A good time | |
| Blow off | To defeat in a race (hot-rodders) | |
| Bobbed | Shortened | |
| Boss | Great | |
| Bread | Money | |
| Bug | "You bug me" - to bother | |
| Burn rubber | To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders) |
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