Learn how to express yourself through 1960s slang. If it was cooler than cool, it was “boss”, if it was wonderful, it was “outta sight” and if it was fantastic it was “righteous”.

A gas – having a fun time
All show and no go – looks good superficially
Ape – crazy or mad
Bad – awesome
Badass – trouble maker
Bag – steal
Ball – to have sexual intercourse
Beat feat – leave quickly
Bench racing – sitting around and talking about the speed of their cars
Blast – good time
Blitzed – drunk
Blown – drunk
Bogart – to keep for yourself
Bone yard – a place to put junk or wrecked cars
Boob tube – television
Boogie board – a short surfboard
Bookin’ – going fast in a car
Boss – fantastic
Brew – beer
Brody – skid half a circle in a car with the brakes locked
Brody Knob – knob that attaches to a steering wheel to facilitate turning
Bug – to bother
Bug out – to leave
What a bummer – what a bad thing or unpleasant experience
Burn rubber – squeal tires and leave rubber on the road
Cat – guy
Catch some rays – get out in the sun
Cherry – mint condition
Chickabiddy – because I told you so
Chicken/To play chicken – two cars driving towards each other
Chinese firedrill – when four people get out of a car at a right light and exchange places in the car
Chop – to cut someone down verbally
Chrome Dome – bald man
Cool head – nice guy
Cooties – bugs
Crash – sleep
Cut out – leave the area quickly
Decked out – dressed up
Deuce – putting two fingers up in a peace symbol
Dibs – ownership
Dig – understand
Don’t flip your wig – don’t be upset
Don’t have a cow – don’t be upset
Don’t sweat it – don’t be upset
Dove – a peace lover
Downer – an unpleasant experience
Drag – someone or something that is boring
Dropout – refuse to conform with society
Fab – fabulous
Fab Four – The Beatles
Far out – awesome
Fink – tattletale
Five finger discount – stolen
Flake – useless person
Flake off – leave
Flee the scene – leave
Flip flops – thongs
Flower child – a hippie or other member of the counterculture
Flower power – the impact of the hippy counterculture
Fox – good looking woman
Freak out – get excited and lose control
Freedom riders – civil rights protesters
Free love – casual sex
Generation gap – the differences in beliefs between youth and parents
Gimme some skin – to ask someone to slap or shake your hand in agreement
Go ape – lose all control over emotions
Gone – under the influence of drugs
Gnarly – difficult or big
Groovy – outstanding or nice
Groady – dirty
Grungy – looking shabby or dirty
Glasspacked – has mufflers lined with fiberglass to muffle the sound
Hacked – made someone mad
Hairy – difficult or out of control
Hang loose – take it very easy
Hang tough – to stick with something difficult
Hawk – a supporter of war
Heat – police
Heavy – a controversial or powerful subject
Hep – in full agreement
Hip – very cool
Hodad – a person who does not surf
Hog – to take over so that someone else cannot use
Hot dog – show-off
Hunk – good looking guy
In the groove – a person who is part of the in-crowd
Jam – group of people play music together
Jazzed – excited
Jelly Roll – heroin
Jive turkey- one who speaks as though they know what they’re talking about…though they do not. b. a bullshitter.
Kicks – something done for pleasure
Kings X – safe
Kiss off – dismiss
Kiss up – someone who will do anything to gain favor by another person
Knocked up – pregnant
Laid back – relaxed
Lay it on me – tell me
Lay rubber – stop fast and leave wheel marks on the road
Make out – kissing
Midnight auto supply – stolen auto parts
Mirror warmer – woman who spends a lot of time looking in the mirror
Mod – modern or in fashion
Moon – to drop your pants
Mop-top – someone with a Beatle-style haircut
Neato – awesome
Nifty – stylish or very good
No sweat! – No problem
Now – of the current fashion or style
Old Lady – mother
Old Man – father
On the make – looking for a date
Outta sight – awesome
Pad – where you sleep or live
Padiddle – car with only one working headlight
Panty waist – a boy who does not have a tough personality
Passion pit – drive-in movie
Peel out – accelerate quickly, leaving rubber on the road
Peggers – jeans with tight calfs and ankles
PG – pregnant
Pig – police officer
Pig out – overeat
Port holer – a sailor on a ship
Pound – to beat someone up
Race for pinks – race cars when the winner keeps the loser’s car
Rap – to talk
Rat fink – someone who tells on someone else
Rays – sunshine
Right on – OK, a term of agreement
Rip off – steal
Scarf – eat fast
Score – get sex from a girl
Scratch – money
Shades – sunglasses
Shake it, don’t break it! – told to someone who wiggles
Shot down – rejected
Shotgun – passenger seat
Skag or Skank – an ugly girl
Skirt – a girl
Skuzz – disgusting person
Skuzz bucket – ugly place or thing
Slug bug – Volkswagon beetle
It’s snowing down south – woman’s slip is showing
Sock it to me – Let me have it
Solid – I understand
Souped up – lots of extra equipment
Split – to leave
Sponge – live off of someone else’s money or belongings
Square – someone who is not cool
Stoked – likes someone or something a lot
Stoned – high on pot
Stuck up – conceited
Submarine races – excuse given for parking next to the water to make out
Sweat hog – fat girl or boy
Sweat parties – sex parties
Tennies – tennis shoes
The Man – any authority figure who maintained the corporate, legal and political status quo
Threads – clothes
Ticked off – angry
Tight – very friendly
Toke – a puff from a marijuana cigarette
Tooling – driving around
Tough – great looking
Tuff – cool or very enjoyable
Tune out – ignore
Turn off – to respulse someone
Truckin’ – moving quickly
Twice Pipes – two muffler tail pipes
Twitchin’ – great or awesome
Unglued – upset
Unreal – so outstanding that it was difficult to believe
Uptight – tense and unable to enjoy life
Way out – beyond explanation
Wedgies – When someone pulls up someone else’s underwear from the back, causing the underwear to go into the crack
What’s your bag, man? – what are you into? what is your problem?
Wipe out – to fail in a big way or to fall off the surfboard
Woodie – an old, wood-sided station wagon that was popular with the California surfing population
Zilch – zero
Zit – pimple

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A 1960s lady who talked her own language, some of Holly Golightly(Breakfast at Tiffany’s) greatest quotes for you to use.

“It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I’ll give you two.

“But I am mad about José. I honestly think I’d give up smoking if he asked me.”

“Quel night.”

“I’ll tell you one thing, Fred, darling… I’d marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money? “…In a minute.” (Awkward pause.) “I guess it’s pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?” (Second, and far longer awkward pause.) “…Yeah.”

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?”,

“The mean reds, you mean like the blues?”

“No. The blues are because you’re getting fat and maybe it’s been raining too long; you’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? …Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany’s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that’d make me feel like Tiffany’s, then — then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!”

“I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.”

“Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”

“How do I look?” “…Very good. I must say, I’m amazed.”

“…You know what’s gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.”

“It’s useful being top banana in the shock department.”

“I’m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don’t even belong to each other.”

“Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk — very drunk indeed

“…Do you think she’s talented, deeply and importantly talented?”

“…No. Amusingly and superficially talented, yes. But deeply and importantly, no.”

(Very drunk.) “You disAPPROVE of me, and I do not accept drinks from gentlemen who DISapprove of me.”

“I don’t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I’m not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It’s like Tiffany’s.”

“You can always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. I must say — the mind reels.”

“Let me make one thing clear. I am not now — nor have I ever been — named ‘Fred.’”

“Didn’t I tell you that this was a wonderful place?”

“She’s a phony. But she’s a real phony. You know why? Because she honestly believes all this phony junk that she believes.”

“Thursday? Oh no, it can’t be! It’s too gruesome.”

“…I mean, I owe her something — not that I owe her anything if you really want to get right down to it, but… She’s a crazy. She’s a phony. But she’s a real phony. Know what I mean, kid?”

“Hand me my purse, will you, darling? A girl can’t read that sort of thing… with… without her lipstick.”

“All right — so he’s not a regular rat, or even a super rat. He’s just a scared little mouse. But — oh, golly, gee, damn!”

“Simply do not ask me what this is all about.” (Waves hand wildly.) “Parce que je ne sais pas, mes chers.“

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.”

“He’s all right — I suppose. If you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth.”

“I am a very stylish girl.”

“I suppose you think I’m very brazen or très fou or something.”

“I don’t think you’re any fou-er than anyone else.”

“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”