Take a look at this list of common 1930s slang words and see how many you recognize: Aces: Excellent Ackamarackus: Nonsense All wet: No good Bash: An attempt or try Barge around: Walk slowly Bazoo: Mouth Beat: Broke Behind the grind: Behind in your work or studies Biff: Failure Blow, split, or scram: Leave Blow your wig: To get excited Bong: To catch on to a joke slowly Boondoggle: An extravagant or useless project Booshwash or bumping gums: Empty talk, bullsh*t Bread, dough, moolah, or bacon: Money Brodie: To take a chance and lose or make a mistake Bug: Difficult to understand Cheaters: Glasses or sunglasses Check or checker: A dollar Cockamamie: Kids slang for a temporary tattoo or detail Copacetic: Performing well Dil-ya-ble: A phone call (sounds like dialable) Dime a dozen: Anything very common or not very valuable Dog it: To avoid work Dukes, paws, grabbers, or meat hooks: Hands Eggs in coffee: Run smoothly Fade: To leave Five spot or a Lincoln: Five dollars or a five dollar bill Frog: To cheat Gams: Legs Gasser: A great time or something very funny Gobsmacked: Flabbergasted or shocked Gumming the works: To cause something to run less smoothly, to ruin a plan Honey cooler: A kiss Hops: Information Horn or blower: Telephone Hot stuff: The latest news or trend Iron: A car or motorcycle Joed: Tired Juicy: Enjoyable Kibosh: To squelch or put a stop to something Kippy: Neat Low down: All the information Meat wagon: An ambulance Middle-aisle it: Get married Necking: Making out Pitching woo or making whoopee: Making love Plotz: Sit down wearily, slouch, mope around Sawbuck: A ten dollar bill Snipe: Cigarette Somoa: Some more (pronounced like youre slurring your words together) Speedo: Speedometer Squat: Zero or nothing That way for: Falling in love Tin can or flivver: A car Trip for biscuits: A task that yields nothing Uh-huh: Falling in love Whacky: Crazy Yo!: Yes Advertisement Take a gander at some of these common sayings from the 1930sdo any sound familiar to you
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