FIFTIES SLANG

Actor - Show-off

Agitate the Gravel - To leave

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

Bent eight - a V-8 engine

Big Daddy - An older person

Big tickle - Really funny

Bit - An act

Blast - A good time

Blow off - To defeat in a race

Bobbed - Shortened

Boss - Great

Bread - Money

Burn rubber - To accelerate hard and fast

Cast an eyeball - To look

Cat - A hip person

Chariot - Car

Chrome-plated - Dressed up

Circled - Married

Classy chassis - Great body

Cloud 9 - Really happy

Clutched - Rejected

Clyde - Term of address, usually for a normal person

Cook, cookin' - Doing it well

Cool it - Relax, settle down

Cooties - Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked - Excited

Crazy - "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing

Cream - Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage

Cruisin' for a bruisin' - Looking for trouble

Cube - A normal person

Cut the gas - Be quiet!

Cut out - Leave

Daddy-O - Term of address

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

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

Flat out - Fast as you can

Flat-top - Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat on top

Flick -A movie

Flip - To get very excited

Floor it - Push the accelerator to the floor

Fracture - To amuse

Fream - Someone who doesn't fit in

Frosted - Angry

Get Bent! - Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"

Get with it - Understand

Gig - Work, job

Go ape - Get very excited

Goof - Someone who makes mistakes

Goopy - Messy

Greaser - A guy with tons of grease in his hair

Grody - Sloppy, messy or dirty

Hang - As in "hang out" which means to do very little

Haul A** - Drive very fast

Heat - Police

Hip - Someone who is cool, in the know. Very good.

Hipster - Same as above

Horn - Telephone

Hottie - A very fast car

Illuminations - Good ideas, thoughts

In orbit - In the know

Jacked Up - Car with raised rear end.

Jacketed - Going steady.

Jets - Smarts, brains

Kick - A fun or good thing; Also, a fad

Kill - To really impress

Knuckle sandwich - A fist in the face

Kookie - Nuts, in the nicest possible was

Lay a patch - To accelerate so rapidly that you leave a patch of rubber on the road.

Lay on - To give

Machine - A car

Made in the shade - Success guaranteed

Make out - A kissing session

Make the scene - To attend an event or activity

Nerd - Same as now.

Nod - Drift off to sleep

No sweat - No problem

Nuggets - Loose change

Odd ball - Someone a bit off the norm

On the stick - Pulled together. Bright, prepared...

Pad - Home

Paper shaker - Cheerleader or Pom Pom girl

Party pooper - No fun at all

Passion Pit - Drive-in movie theatre

Peepers - Glasses

Pile up Z's - Get some sleep

Pound - Beat up

Radioactive - Very popular

Rap - To tattle on someone

Rattle your cage - Get upset

Raunchy - Messy or gross in some other way

Razz my berries - Excite or impress me

Real gone - Very much in love. Also unstable.

Rock - A diamond

Scream - Go fast

Shoot low - Be careful

Shot down - Failed

Sing - To tattle or inform on someone

Sounds - Music

Spaz - Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz.

SPLIT - Leave

Stacked - A well endowed woman

Stack up - To wreck a car

Tank - A large sedan (usually driven by parents)

Think Fast - Usually said right before someone threw something at you

Threads - Clothes

Tight - Good friends
Total - To completely destroy, most often in reference to a car

Unreal - Exceptional

Wail - Go fast

Wazoo - Your rear end

Weed - A cigarette

Wet rag - Someone who's just no fun

Word from the bird - The truth

What's buzzin, cuzzin - What's new?