Then you won't mind me serving back up an old Friday Flashback from almost 2 years ago. It's a good one and you might even be able to use some of these slang words in your current wip.
Happy Weekend!
Friday Flashback-Slang Originally posted 6/25/10
Slang words are a part of every culture, it’s what makes the languages colorful and gives each region its own unique flavor. But English slang may be the most dynamic and mutable of all.
1940’s
Hep cats- swing music lovers, dancers (male)
Hep kittens- swing music lovers, dancers (female)
Hi-de-ho- hello
Lettuce- money
Threads- clothes
Cast an eyeball- look around
City slicker- dandy from the city
1950’s
Ankle-biter - a child or extremely small person
Bash - great party
Heat - police
Horn - telephone
Kookie - nuts, in the nicest possible way
Lighter - a crew cut
Make the scene - to attend an event or activity
Nosebleed - an insult
Paper shaker - cheerleader
1960’s
a gas - fun
bad - awesome
badass - a tough guy
bag - to steal
beat feet or book - leave quickly
cat - a guy
chick - a girl
cool - awesome, nice
crash - to sleep
dig - do you understand?
dude - a dweeb or dork
fag - a cigarette
groovy - awesome
right on! - amen! or I agree!
stoned - high
stoked - excited
the bird - to raise the middle finger
wipe out - to fail spectacularly
1970’s
Skinney-real deal or truth
Can You Dig It-Do you understand?
Psyche-To trick someone. As if to psyche them out.
Crib-home or someone else's house
Dream On-a term used to tell someone they are being unrealistic
In Your Face!(or simply, 'Face!')-I have succeeded in embarrassing or up-staging you
That's Sick!-To describe something odd or unusual.
1980's
411 - information
airhead - a stupid person
BFF - best friends forever
bangin' or bitchin' - cool or impressive
bomb or boss - excellent
couch potato - someone who sits on the sofa watching TV or playing games
crunk - cool or hip
deep shit - really big trouble
dis - disrespect
fine - hot or sexy
glam - glamorous
goth - same as modern usage
grindage - food
happening - hip or current
harsh - cold or hard
head-banger - fan of heavy metal music
later - good-bye
posse - friends
righteous - awesome
schweet - sweet
'sup - what's going on
tard - retard or idiot
veg - to chill out
wannabe - a "want to be" or someone who is not cool
1990’s
As if - means yeah right
Bling bling- nice jewelry.
Bunk- messed up, crazy.
Cha ching- costly
Crunk- hyped up, excited
Dawg- a friend "what's up dawg?"
Down - I'm down with that "sounds good to me "
My bad - your mistake.
Peace out- Bye
Shady- being unfair or not nice.
Sweet- meaning cool "that car is sweet".
2000's
sick = awesome
nasty = awesome
dirty = awesome
legit = legitimate
ridic = ridiculous
fo shizzle = for sure
popo = police
shiznit = shit, as in "this stuff is the shiznit,"
ballin' = playing basketball or being wealthy
Hells Yeah!
So Gay (as in so stupid, dumb)
Gaydar
Muffin Top
Whatever
Even though we have added words every decade, I think it’s fun to see that we still use slang from as far back as 50 years ago.
What? Did you think your generation invented them?
As if.
I once had a student who called me muffinhead. Does that count?
ReplyDeleteI do love how many of the words are really old. And I just love the word gaydar. No clue why :)
ReplyDeleteI still use 50's slang. Meanwhile, if I hear anyone say 'fo shizzle' or 'ballin' and they're white... they get a slap upside the head. Stop that. You're making the rest of us look stupid.
ReplyDeleteThis blog post is bitchin'! I can dig it, fo shizzle.
ReplyDeleteI hope you're nowhere near the storms...
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