slang'50s Slang
Actor -- Show-off
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
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)
Cast an eyeball To look
Cat-- A hip person (Beats)
Chariot-- Car (Beats)
Cherry-- Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated-- Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled-- Married
Classy chassis-- Great body
Cloud 9-- Really happy
Clutched-- Rejected
Clyde-- Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin'-- Doing it well
Cool-- Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it-- Relax, settle down
Cooties-- Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked-- Excited (Beats)
Crazy-- "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
Cream-- Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin' for a bruisin'-- Looking for trouble
Cube- A normal person
Cut the gas-- Be quiet!
Cut out- Leave
Daddy-O-- Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T.-- (Drop Dead Twice) Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce-- A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
Dibs-- A claim - as in "got dibs" on that seat
Dig-- To understand; to approve
Dolly-- Cute girl
Don't have a cow-- Don't get so excited
Drag (hot-rodders)-- A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Duck Butt or D.A. --Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part
Earthbound-- Reliable
Epistle- Letter
Eyeball-- Look around
Fake Out-- A bad date
Fast-- Someone who was sexually active
Fat City-- A great thing or place; Happy
Fire Up-- Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out-- Fast as you can
Flat-top-- Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick-- A movie
Flip-- To get very excited
Flip-top-- A convertible car
Floor it-- Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Fracture-- To amuse
Fream-- Someone who doesn't fit in
Frosted-- Angry
Woody-- An erection
Wiggin' Out- Going Crazy
