What are some slang words from the 1970's-1990's?

Answer 1

1970s Slang Words

• foxy (a fox is a really good looking woman)
• foxes (guys<--no, both sexes. id est: "fox on the run")
• far-out (like cool or groovy)
• fruit/ was used as "stupid" or "lame" . "hey man, that's fruit."
• fruit / also used as a slang for a homosexual
• jam or to jam/ getting into your music either by playing it or listening to it.
• jive/jive talk... B.S.ing
• turkey, a jerk jive turkey..a lying jerk
• takin' care of business, could also mean having sex either with or without another person
• "the man" government/ police
• my favorite would be cream, as in: cream in my jeans
• phyche! - as in to psyche someone out
• Dream on! - as in "you need to think again"
• "Good Night John-Boy!"
• the max - the best
• to book, or booking - to move quickly
• "Keep on Truckin'"
• "May the Force be With You!"
• boogie - to dance
• get down - to dance
• Neat ! - for something you liked a lot
• Cool ! - said in response to almost anything, just to show you were "cool"
• Cool Cat
• Onward and Upward - no matter what has happened or whatever obstacles, just keep (yourself) going toward your goal.
• Peace! - along with using the "V" Peace Sign by spreading your index finger and middle finger apart into a V
• Babe
• You Sexy Thing!
• "Gimme a Hit" - for smoking dope or borrowing a drag from a friend's cigarette
• "What a drag" - for a boring, uninteresting event or to express "condolences" about a pretty ordinary event (like your friend couldn't get out of the house, so you'd say "What a drag" about the friend's parents).
• "Study Hall" - skipping a class or classes and sneaking out of the building to our own "study hall" (which was anywhere but in school)
• Punk - someone who wouldn't amount to anything -- ever
• asking for "a dime" could mean you wanted drugs, but since pay telephones at that time cost a dime to make a local call, it could get confusing as to what the person wanted.
• "Just another Misty" - reference to the movie with a psycho woman who repeatedly requested a disc jockey play the same song "Play Misty for me..." -- Just another Misty meant judging someone as acting psycho especially in romance/about a boyfriend

A lot of slang were phrases adopted from the leading Rock 'n Roll bands and Ballad singers (ex. Jim Croce). After Croce was killed in an accident, for a time people would say, "That's a Croce" to indicate something that, sadly (very sadly), had come to an end.

There was also the (now bland) slang of the sub-culture world of drug use.

Check out this link. It has lots of terms from the seventies.