Catcher in the Rye

Slang Quiz

Define the following terms that were slang sometime during 1905-2004.

1. skiddo

2. half-cut, fried, jammed, juiced, pie-eyed, polluted, plastered, shot, tanked

3. bat, brawl, buzz, rag, toot, wrestle, egg harbor

4. (5 different things): gob stick, dog house, gobble pipe, skins, git box

5. drooly, pappy, swoony, BTO, PC

6. (5 different things): moss, blinkers, flops, schnozz, pillars

7. fatal pill, go-away kiss, lead pill, check out, blotto, in the drink

8. bad news, beast, bomb, hack, kemp, wedge

9. cut the grass, don’t tense, fade out, get bent

10. squaresville, deadsville, dullsville

11. barf, blow, beets, flash, heave, ralph

12. (category): hang ten, stoked, bitchin, dude, bro

13. reefer, gage, mary jane, spliff, jay, doobie, roach

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15. to chill, hang, veg, jell, kick it, ease

16. (category): fer sure, tscha, grody, totally, to the max

17. biscuit, burner, heater, joint, steel, toast

18. (category): later, peace out, How you doin’, wha’s up

19. bones, Franklins, Gs, jacks, yard, clout

20. break, bust, chat, comp, freestyle, kick, rip

21. been there, done that; outta my way, man; cowabunga; hurl; take a pill; babe-osity;

Not!; scwing, party on!