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What are some 50's slang words?

Updated: 10/26/2022
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Agitate the gravel - to leave , or exit

Ankle-biter - a child or extremely small person

Ape - to explode from anger

Bash - great party

Bobbed - shortened

Cat - a "hip" person

Circled - married

Cooties - imaginary infestations of the truly "un-cool"

Cream - badly damage

Cut the gas - Be quiet!

Dolly - cute girl

Dig - to approve

Duck Butt or D.A. - Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle

Fake out - a bad date

Fat City - a great thing or place; Happy

Fream - someone who doesn't fit in

Greaser - a guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. (yes, John Travolta in Grease.)

Heat - police

Horn - telephone

Jacketed - going steady, dating

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

Pile up Z's - get some sleep

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