1970's Slang
Researching some 1970's slang might take you back to a different time in your life, or it might introduce you to an entirely new way of speaking which you were not familiar with before.
1970's Slang
When you are reviewing this list of 1970's slang, you might notice that some of the phrases have stuck around until today. Some of them may have slipped into oblivion for awhile, but language that goes underground for awhile, tends to spring back up again unexpected.
What follows is a list of some of the most popular slang phrases from the disco era.
- Skinney
- Psyche
- Crib
- Gig
- Far out
- Dream on
- Don't be such a spaz
- In your face
- Face!
- May the force be with you.
- That's sick!
- The man
- To the max
- You know
- Your momma
- Joe momma
- Booking
- Catch you on the flip side
- Fab
- Fool that you are
- Get down
- Boogie
- Keep on truckin
- Right on
- Putz
- What it is, what it is
- Are you decent
- Are you jivin' yet
- Awe sooky sooky
- Bear
- Smokey
- Bad
- Beat the drag
- Bogart
- Bomb dude
- Boogy
- Buggin out
- Bugged out
- Bummer for ya
- Can you dig it?
- Casanova
- Catch my drift
- Check you later
- Check ya later
- Cheesier
- Chillaxin
- Chillin at the pad
- Close the shades
- Closet disco queen
- Colder than a deuce
- Confab
- Cool man
- Cool cat
- Copacetic
- Crawford ran
- Crazy
- Cya later alligator
- Decent
- Way decent
- Dig
- Do you copy
- Does anybody remember laughter
- Don't be a bunny
- Dork
- Dorky
- Drag
- Dude
- Down with
- Fake me out
- Far out
- Far out man
- Flash back
- Flat leaver
- Flower power
- Foxy mama
- Freaks me out
- Freaky deaky
- Funky
- Ghetto fabulous
- Get bent
- Gimme some skin
- Going around
- Good look
- Good vibe
- Groovy
- Hairy eyeball
- Heads
- Jocks
- Nerds
- Heres the skinny
- Hertz donut
- Hey sunshine
- Hey, what's crackin
- I am out to lunch
- I can dig it
- I dig ya
- I gotta skitty
- I hate it
- I like cheese
- I'll call you out
- I'm outtie
- Jeepers Creepers
- Jelly brain
- Jiggy
- Just because...get you
- Keep on steppin
- Keep on truckin
- Laker
- Later days
- Let's blow this taco stand
- Let's blow up the cheese
- Let's get the groove on
- The lowdown
- Make groceries
- Mind your potatoes
- Nifty
- Dorky
- No duh
- No fake
- No way, Jose
- Off the hook
- Out of sight
- Peace, love, and granola
- Peace out home fry
- Pimpin
- Pop a wheelie
- Psyche out
- Radical dude
- Radical
- Raza Unida
- Ripped off
- Rip off
- Say brotha
- Shag wag
- Shaggin' wagon
- Shrimp farming
- Sit on it
- Smooth play Shakespeare
- Snaps
- Sound as a pound
- Square biz
- Stash
- Stellar
- Step into the past
- Stoked
- Stone fox
- Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid
- Sweet man
- Ten-four good buddy
- That was the joint
- Threads
- To go bananas
- Totally awesome
- Tripping
- Up your nose with a rubber hose
- Wally wally blood and dolly
- What a goof
- What a grueler
- What a nightmare
- What is it
- What's your 20
- Wherever you go, there you are
- Wipeout
- Wired
- You ain't just a woofin'
- You wanna fight? Then fight these tears
- Zipperhead
How many of these phrases and words look familiar to you? Whether you were chatting in the 1970's, or are a product of the new generation of these words, chances are that you have heard at least a few of these phrases during your life.