The Uses of Sixties Slang

Long ago when the Web was the Net and Social Media was Usenet, I spent some years at a watering hole called The Well. From my own personal collection of lists made in those years, I came across this small selection of Sixties slang in the context it was used that I think I made around 1989.

Additions and corrections gratefully accepted.

• ACED:"We aced him out!"
• AX:"He blows a bad ax."
• BAAAD:"Hey, I checked out yer old lady today.She's baaad,man."
• BARF:"You barf after the peyote milkshakes, bro, but, hey, it's beautiful."
• BALLSY:"She is one ballsy chick."
• BALLING:"So we smoked some righteous reefer and spent the afternoon balling our brains out."
• BLOW YOUR COOL:"What ever you do, don't blow your cool."
• BLEW HIM AWAY:"The pigs just blew him away with their shotguns."
• BOONDOCKS:"Let's make it to this pad I scammed out in the boondocks."
• BREAD:"Dope will get you through times without bread better than bread will get you through times without dope."
• BRING DOWN: “No, oh no!, don’t bring me down. No, no, no, no, no…”
• BUMMER:"Bummmmmmmmmer!"
• BUBBLEGUM MUSIC:"Scott McKenzie, my ass! He's the king of teenyboppers and bubblegum music."
• CATCH SOME RAYS:"You've caught enuf zzz's, let's hit the beach and catch some rays."
• CLICK:"That town's about 50 clicks back in the boondocks."
• COPE:"I've got no dope and cannot cope."
• CRASH:"I just wanna flash before I crash."
• CRASH PAD:"Flash runs a shooting parlor and crash pad for teenyboppers in the Haight."
• DINKS:"When I was in Nam we used to waste dinks just to pass the time."
• DING A LING:"He's a star-class ding-a-ling."
• DO YOUR THING:"I do my thing and you do your thing and if by chance they meet, hey, it's yabyum."

• DOWNER:"Life's such a downer let's do some downers."
• DROPOUT:"Just another weekend dropout."
• DUDE:"Now that is one cool dude."
• FAB:"Strickly fab, dad."
• FAT CITY:"If the pig doesn't twig to the fifty keys behind the seat, we'll be in fat city tonight."
• FLOWER POWER:"Flower power is not healthy for Pentagons and other corporate things."
• FLAKY:"Very flaky freak out going down here."
• FLAKE OFF:"I told that pig to flake off."
• FLAK:"Of course, that pig made me take a lot of flak for that remark."
• FOXY:"Now that is the most foxy chick this dude has ever enorbed."
• FREAKED OUT:"She's so foxy, I'm totally freaked out."
• GIVING HEAD:"Not only that she gives great head."
• GO-GO:"When not going to a go-go, mind you."
• GROUPIE:"Whatever happened to those groupies, the Plaster Casters?"
• GRUNTS:"Just a bunch of grunts at Khe Sahn. How come we don't get no Plaster Casters out here?"
• GURU:"I'm Timmy. Your guru for tonight. Fly me."
• HACK IT:"I tried a straight job down at the post office but I couldn't hack it."
• HANG A LOOIE:"If you hang a looie at the next light, we'll lose them."
• HAPPENING: “Let’s check out the demonstration and see what’s happening.”
• HIP CAPITALIST:"Yeah? Well, if Wenner wasn't a hip capitalist he'd turn the Stone over to the people."
• HUNG UP:"I'm really hung up about money."
• HUSTLE:"Are you on some kind of hustle or what."
• INTO:"I'm Charlie and I'm into helter skelter."
• MATCHBOX:"I'm sittin' here a wonderin' if a matchbox'll hold my clothes."
• MELLOW:"Let's smoke some joints, skin pop some speed, drop three ludes, do a few lines,have some Cribari and get mellow."
• MINDBENDING:"You know, this draft notice is real mindbending."
• NARCS:"He's either a narc or with the Hare Krishna's."
• NO WAY:"Like NO WAY."
• NOW:"The time is exactly now."
• OFF THE WALL:"Nixon's freaking and Kissinger's off the wall."
• PEACENIK:"Yep, neither of 'em are real peaceniks, ya know."
• PITS:"This is just the pits."
• PURE CRYSTAL:"You bet its pure crystal. I made it myself. Would I fake you out?”
• RIPOFF:"We're brothers, man, you don't rip off a brother.
• RIGHT ON!:"Your argument for a Marxian interpretation of Baskin and Robbins is right on."
• ROADIE:"So this roadie had tee-shirts made up that said, No head -- No Backstage Pass....and it worked."
• SCORE:"Hey, bros, I just made the scene. Know where I can score a lid?"
• TEENYBOPPER:"Teenyboppers are real overrated man. I know."
• THE MAN:"Split, it's the man."
• TOKE:"Well,lets have one last toke then, we'll need it."
• UNDERGROUND:"He's in the underground."
• UNREAL:"It was so great it was unreal."
• UNCOOL:Very uncool to blow away people just because you don't like short hair."
• UPTIGHT:"I'm very uptight around guns in the hands of heads, Fred."
• UP AGAINST THE WALL: See “Mc5” not McD.
• VIBES:"Hey, bad vibes."
• WASTED:"So wasted."

Posted by Vanderleun at November 1, 2009 11:25 PM