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| Sack Out |
go to sleep or go to bed |
| Scam |
the act of swindling or cheating someone, also a scheme to
swindle or cheat |
| Scarf |
to eat great quantities or to eat really
fast (can apply to any indulgence) |
| Scene |
someplace where it's happing, like a party or a
gathering |
| Scope Out |
to check out, watch or study something |
| Score |
to obtain something, also meant getting sex or drugs |
| Scratch |
currency, money |
| Scrounge (verb) |
to beg, borrow, steal or arrange to get something |
| Scrounge (noun) |
a person who begs, borrows or arranges to
get something |
| Search Me |
means I don't know |
| Sell Out |
someone who gave into something that was
considered bad ie: he sold out and went home to live with his
parents |
| Sexual Revolution |
a change in attitudes about sex due in large part because of
the birth control pill |
| Shades |
sunglasses |
| Shaft (ed) |
to be taken advantage of |
| Shag |
a British term for sex |
| Shake That Thing |
dance, have fun, shake your bootie |
| Shotgun |
in the 1950s it meant to ride in the front
seat of a car, in the 60s it meant blowing through the wrong end
of a marijuana cigarette |
| Shrink |
a head shrinker - psychiatrist |
| Sick Puppy |
someone who is crazy or objectionable |
| Silent Majority |
used by President Nixon in a speech, meant the vast majority
of Americans who didn't protest the war |
| Sister |
referring to a black female |
| Sit In |
a form of non violent protest |
| Skin |
a handshake ie: give me some skin |
| Skyjacking |
to hold a airplane hostage or divert it to a new destination
for money or political gains |
| Slam Dunk |
a winner, any successful endeavor, started
as a basketball term |
| Slide |
to leave a place also to ignore a comment or action |
| Sleazy |
someone that is contemptible, cheap,
unkempt or promiscuous |
| Snooze You Loose |
if you wait it will be too late |
| Soap Opera |
someone who's life is mixed up,
confusing and strange (named after the daytime dramas) |
| "sock it to me" |
humorous for let me have it or lay it on me, from Rowan and Martin 's Laugh-in |
| Soul |
a form of inner knowledge, it encompasses
sincerity, honesty and inner peace |
| Space |
in the 60s meant emotional atmosphere in which to think or
just feel comfortable |
| Spiffy |
a 50s term meaning nicely dressed, changed
to sarcasm in the 60s meaning too well dressed made up |
| Square |
a person who is uncool, not contemporary, not with current
thinking |
| Stash |
a place where you hide something (usually
drugs) |
| Stoked |
excited or happy about a particular event |
| Stoned |
intoxicated, high or influenced by
drugs |
| Stoner |
a frequent user of drugs |
| Submarine Races |
a line used to lure a date to the beach for
some making out |
| Sweet |
(not about taste or flavor) something very good, often an
object or a girl |
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| Take Five |
to take a rest, literally take a few
minutes off from what you're doing |
| Take Out |
pick up fast foot (this was the first generation that could
easily do this) |
| Talking Head |
tv news anchor person (they are usually
seen from the shoulders up) |
| Tapped Out |
broke, has no money |
| Tee'd Off |
mad or upset |
| Threads |
clothes (originally a 1940's term it was revisited
heavily in the 1960s) |
| Tie-Dye |
a process of dying done to clothing to
create random circular patterns |
| Tight |
close friends, can also mean well built or well executed |
| "Tip-Toe Thru the
Tulips" |
lyrics to a Tiny Tim song, always said in
sarcasm and meaning nothing |
| Toke |
a puff or drag off of a marijuana cigarette |
| Trip |
under the influence of a psychedelic drug,
can also mean a unique fun experience |
| Tube |
television (also called Boob Tube) |
| Twilight Zone |
a situation that seems a little unreal in
which time and reality aren't necessarily apparent |
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| Uncool |
used a lot to indicate anything that was inappropriate or
unacceptable to the group that was using the term |
| Unreal |
also used a lot to indicate something
abnormal, strange or unbelievable |
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| VC |
Viet Cong, the military guerrilla forces of N. Vietnam (this
term was burned into our vocabulary by war reports) |
| Vibes |
feelings emanating from a person or
situation |
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| Wasted |
extremely intoxicated or high |
| Watergate |
a hotel/office complex in Washington DC
where there was a break-in which eventually led to the downfall
of a President |
| Weed |
marijuana |
| Wig Out |
to freak out or space out (courtesy of Frances England) |
| Wild Thing, the |
sex |
| Wiped Out |
originally a surfers term in the 60s it meant depleted or
exhausted either mentally or physically |
| Wired |
high, also naturally energized or
excited |
| With It |
knowledgeable, appropriate or in the know |
| Wow |
not a new expression but certainly one of
the most used during the sixties |
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| Yippie |
nickname given to members of the Youth International Party a
anti war organization |
| Yuppie |
nickname given to young upwardly mobile
professionals |
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| Zone |
a mental place where things are going well and are happy |
| Zonked |
out of it, due either to fatigue, alcohol
or drugs |
| Zoo |
not the animal place but rather a strange, crazy or extremely
busy place |
Pop History
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