2007-05-10 13:05:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
These are just the expressions that began with A-F......to see them all, go to :
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/slang.htm
Actor: Show-off
Agitate the Gravel: To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter: A child
Ape: Used with go - to explode or be really mad
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
Bash: Great party
Bent eight: a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Big Daddy: An older person
Big tickle: Really funny
Bit: An act
Blast: A good time
Blow off: To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed: Shortened
Boss: Great
Bread: Money
Bug: "You bug me" - to bother
Burn rubber: To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
Cast an eyeball: To look
Cat: A hip person (Beats)
Chariot: Car (Beats)
Cherry: Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated: Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled: Married
Classy chassis: Great body
Cloud 9: Really happy
Clutched: Rejected
Clyde: Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin': Doing it well
Cool: Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it: Relax, settle down
Cooties: Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked: Excited (Beats)
Crazy: "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
Cream: Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin' for a bruisin': Looking for trouble
Cube: A normal person
Cut the gas: Be quiet!
Cut out: Leave
Daddy-O: Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T.: (Drop Dead Twice) Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce: A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
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
Drag: (hot-rodders) A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Ducks Asss or D.A.: Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.
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
Fire Up: Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out: Fast as you can
Flat-top: Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick: A movie
Flip: To get very excited
Flip-top: A convertible car
Floor it: Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Fracture: To amuse
Fream: Someone who doesn't fit in
Frosted: Angry
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2007-05-10 13:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by Joey Bagadonuts 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
50s Sayings
2016-09-29 02:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by larry 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ain't nobody got time for that
2016-03-18 23:25:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hit the road, Jack.
2007-05-10 16:22:08 · answer #4 · answered by Niny Katriny 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The movie American Graffitti is full of them.
2007-05-10 13:31:59 · answer #5 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋