Vintage Slang

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SNAFU - "Situation Normal, All 'Fouled' Up" (that's the nice, sanitized version you could tell mom).

FUBAR - " 'Fouled' Up Beyond All Repair". (Likewise).

SOS - "sh*t on a shingle", chipped beef in gravy on toast.

"Ruptured duck" - anything taking off fast took off like one. When they got home the guys were given an Honorable Discharge lapel pin, which depicted an ungainly eagle in awkward flight, and which they called their "ruptured duck".

"In like Flynn" - popular movie star Errol Flynn beat a rape charge in court just before the war, so, anybody who had it made was "in like Flynn".

"Goldbrick" or "goldbricking", a person who is lazy, goofs off, is not to be found when there is work to be done, and the actual activity of avoiding work.

"Yardbirds" - mindless soldiers, standing around slack jawed.

"52/20 Club" - after the war there were no jobs to go get, as factories retooled to go from making war material back to civilian goods. Discharged soldiers were given $20 a week unemployment benefits for 52 weeks.

"Golden Gate in 48", to which someone would reply "Bread line in 49", expressing the soldiers' expectation that it would take until 1948 to beat Japan, before the A-bombs were dropped, and what would become of the former soldiers after the war, as America forgot them as quickly as possible.

"Short snorter". You'd get yourself a foreign banknote, or, you could use American MPCs, with which the soldiers were paid (Military Payment Certificates). You'd get your buddies to sign your banknote, and you'd sign theirs. If your first one got covered up, you'd tape another one to the end, getting longer and longer. Anybody who could not produce their "short snorter" on demand that you had signed owed you a drink, or a "short snort".

"Peering through a glass of no rewards"

Internet chat or message boards often have censor programs and the result is that a user will apply a strange combination of words that are playful but still slightly insulting.

"Yo dawg" is a colloquial slang phrase commonly used in casual settings, especially among friends or in informal contexts. It may not be considered appropriate for formal or professional communication.

"Made in the shade" is a slang term that means to have everything easy or under control, to be successful or lucky without too much effort. It was commonly used in the 1950s to convey a sense of smooth sailing or good fortune.

Slang term for a German ( fritz was/is a German name)

Some common 1920s slang terms include "bee's knees" (meaning excellent), "cat's meow" (also meaning excellent), "swell" (meaning great), and "juice joint" (a speakeasy).

In the days of straight razors (very sharp), men had to be careful when trying to get their beard stubble removed. If a barber was doing it and slipped, you could get a serious gash on your throat. This "peril" gave rise to the term as a way of expressing that you narrowly avoided injury.

It usually means to act in an unexpected way, often by becoming obsessive about a new idea, interest or hobby.

The image behind it is that one has dived down into the deep end of the swimming pool, instead of splashing about in the shallow part.

To dive in head first or sometimes feet first, means to rashly put all your effort into something without thinking of consequence or reward. This is often applied to new experiences such as careers, relationships, and pastimes. Example: "Jean dove off head first into the dating pool shortly after her breakup with Ted." "If you dive off feet first in a dangerous situation you might get hurt."

It means buggery or anal sex. Also called Navy Cake

Do people not say that any more? I think they must somewhere..... Burn, the way you note it? Can be said after a joke, after somebody puts somebody down in a particularly clever way, if someone watches someone knocked down a few pegs or branches or notches or whichever in public..... It means, more or less: Yow, wow, somebody got you good and I saw it and I won't forget it and I will tell everyone you know so they won't forget it and your reputation will fall. Pretty much. It's a way of pointing out the hilarity of someone's misfortune or, even better, someone who deserves it's comeuppance.

"Defile" usually means to rape them.

I could be wrong--but in this case I think the one in error is Urban Dictionary. Seems like nobody there knows what this means. As far as I know [or remember], chop house means one of two things: above the blanket, above the board it's a place to eat--restaurant, diner, etc and ect--where you can get chops. Pork chops, lamb chops, maybe BBQ. Below ground, below eye level it's a body shop where they break stolen cars into pieces for resale. UD doesn't have either of these definitions; you'd think, wouldnt you, that they'd at least have the second. On the other hand, it might be older--on that hand's other hand, someone may want to understand period slang. I don't know but i do know these are what it means.

Its another term for the "perineum".

A fridge could be referring to a person that has never French kissed.

Worthless goods; stuff or rubbish: "Look at your hands. And look at your mouth. What is that truck?" (Mark Twain).

a "lead" in British English means a leash.

Yo what up foo was one of the top greetings

It means: "a lot".
You can say: "I've seen enough sailors to patch hell a mile".

"Blue" or "feeling blue"

You know what? I thought this question was a joke; either that, or that someone had mistyped GI Joe. But I was wrong. Just in case, I did a little digging. I found that during the second world war, GI Moe was slang for an army donkey. [Believe it or not, I made sure to confirm this before I sent it out. There's a possibility that everyone online who notes this is noting it from the same source. But there are more than a few noters, so that's pretty doubtful.] Anyway, hope it helps.

Ironically, 'fat chance' means the same thing as 'slim chance'.

There's also 'a snowballs chance in hell'; 'when pigs fly'; 'when hell freezes over'; or 'not in a million years'.