An aspect of pop culture that is exceedingly fascinating is slang and popular phrases that can be ingrained into every sentence one decade and incomprehensible the next. So here's to some bits of slang from the decades of the last century:
1900's:
lollapalooza- something great or fantastic
livewire- an exciting individual
bunk- nonsense
bash- a drunken spree
to have bats in one's belfry- to have nonsensical, wild ideas
1910's:
a stuffed shirt- a pompous individual
meathook- a hand
roscoe- a handgun
floozy- a loose, promiscuous woman
wino- a homeless alcoholic
1920's:
to take for a ride- do drive someone away in order to kill him/her
butt me- give me a cigarette
gams- the legs of a woman
putting on the ritz- doing something stylishly
spifflicated- drunk, also canned, corked, tanked, primed, scrooched, jazzed, zozzled, plastered, owled, embalmed, lit, potted, ossified and fried to the hat
1930's:
platter- a record
lunger- a person with tuberculosis
cement mixer- a bad dancer, also a dead-hoofer
dog house- a string bass
drilling- shooting someone, also plugging, throwing lead, filling someone with daylight, or giving someone lead poisoning
1940's:
motorized freckles- insects
active duty- a promiscuous man
to bag- to shoot down a plane
lettuce- money, cash
to be rationed- to be in a steady relationship
1950's:
passion pit- a drive-in theater
tank- a larger car driven by older people
ankle biter- a small child
lid- a hat
radioactive- popular
1960's:
copasetic- all right, okay, sure
bitchin- great, enjoyable
shotgun- to blow through the wrong end of a marijuana joint
crash pad- a place to sleep
dove- a pacifist
1970's:
to veg out- to relax
to book- to run away, to flee
to close the shades- to shut up
peelers- police, also pigs, the man
the rabbit died- I'm pregnant
1980's:
tubular- interesting, exciting
road pizza- roadkill
ill- uncool
eat my shorts- a comeback
grindage- food
1990's:
fugly- very ugly
to wig out- to go berserk
the shit- something excellent, also fresh
dawg- a friend
to bounce- to leave
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