1960s Slang

Learning about slang from different eras might transport you back to a different time in your life or might introduce you to a whole new style of existence if you were not yet born at that time period.

Here is some 1960s slang for you to get acquainted (or reacquainted!) with.

A gas
All show and no go
Ape
Bad
Badass
Bag
Ball
Bean wagon
Beat feat
Bench racing
Blast
Blew the doors off
Blitzed
Blown
Bogart
Bone yard
Boogie
Book
Bookin'
Boss
Bread
Brew
Brody
Brody Knob
To bug
Bug out
Bummed out
What a bummer
Burn rubber
Cat
Channeled
Cherry
Chick
To play chicken
Chinese fire drill
Choice
Choose off
Chop
Chopped
Chrome Dome
Circus Wagon
Climb it, Tarzan
Cool
Cool head
Cooties
Copasetic
Crash
Crop duster
Cruising
Cut out
Daddy's car
Decked
Decked out
Deuce
Dibs
Dig
Ditz
Don't have a cow
Don't flip your wig
Don't sweat it
Dark
Drag
Drawing Designs
Easy
Fab
Far out
Fink
Five finger discount
Flake
Flake off
Flat top
Flat top with fenders
Flee the scene
Flip flops
Flippers
Flower child
Fox
Freak out
Funky
Fuzz
Get Rubber
Lay Rubber
Gimme some skin
Ginchy
Going steady
Golden
Gone
Gnarly
Greaser
Gremmy
Groovy
Groady
Glasspacked
Hackers
Hairy
Hangin'
Hang loosin
Haulin'
Heat
Heavy
Hep
Hip
Hodad
Hook
Hunk
Ivy Leaguers
Jacked up
Jam
Jazzed
Jelly Roll
Jump bad
Kings X
Kipe
Kiss up
Knocked up
Later
Lay it on me
Lead sled
Light 'em up
Lip flappin'
Loaded
Lowered
Meat
Melvin
Midnight auto supply
Mirror warmer
Moon
Moons
Neato
Neat
Nifty
Nosed
Old Lady
Old Man
On the make
Outta sight
Pad
Padiddle
Padunkle
Pants
Panty waist
Paper shaker
Passion pit
Peel out
Peepers
Peggers
PG
Pig
Pig out
Pin
Port holer
Pound
Primo
PV
Rake
Race for pinks
Rags
Rap
Rat fink
Raunchy
Real gone cat
Right on
Righteous
Rip off
Rule
Sad
Sanitary
Sano
Scarf
Scheming
Score
Scratch
Got screwed
Screwed up
Sectioned
Shades
Shake it, don't break it!
Shine it on
Short
Shotgun
Skag
Skank
Skirt
Skuzz
Skuzz bucket
Slug bug
So fine
So tough
It's snowing down south
Solid
Sosh
Souped up
Spaz
Split
Sponge
Square
Steady
Stoked
Stone
Stoned
Stood up
Stuck up
Stud
Submarine Races
Suicide knob
Swampwater
Swapping fish
Swordfish fights
Swear to Buddha
Sweat hog
Sweat parties
T bucket
Teach
The A
The Beach
The Bird
The Digs
The Hill
The Most
The Man
Think fast
Thongs
Threads
Three on a tree
Tooling
Tough
Tuff
Trollin'
Truckin'
Twice Pipes
Twitchin'
Two-Six
Uncorked
Wedges
Wedgies
Wet Willie
What's your bag, man?
Wicked
Wiggin' out
Winnie
Wiped out
Woody wagon
Zit

Do some of these slang words and expressions look familiar to you, even if you had not yet been born in the 1960s? Well, that is quite possible indeed! Some of these expressions came back to life in other decades since the 1960s, while some of them really never faded from the scene at all. For example, many youths today still use the word "zit" and the phrase "bugging out" and probably do not even know that it was first part of their parents' generation!

1960s Slang

1960s Slang

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