Being, as you obviously are, a crowd with your boots on, and all collaring the jive, you’ll want to lamp Cab Calloway’s 1939 Hepster Dictionary.
By all means slide your jib in the comments.
Via Obnoxio.
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I busted my conk but I don't think I've got the hang of it.
Posted by: John D | August 02, 2017 at 14:10
I'd have to really bust my conk to use most of these. Since I don't have a gig muggin' on a doghouse, or any other excuses to be off the cob.
Posted by: Sporkatus | August 02, 2017 at 14:19
It's like trying to make sense of my daughter's texts.
Posted by: Jen | August 02, 2017 at 14:20
Heh...Try this out...My high school in South Florida had its own lingo. I thought it was a SF thing until I got to college and no one else from SF was hip to it...anywayz in regard to this we would we world weary teenagers would have said:
What an eddy. Trying to owl off but it's so mallard. Now that babe over there is deese. I mean, ooosh!
Found out many years later, for folks "up coast" wally was the equivalent of an eddy.
Posted by: WTP | August 02, 2017 at 14:45
It’s totally hatstand.
Posted by: David | August 02, 2017 at 14:48
Can't wait to tell the youngest son his trombone is, in reality, a "slush pump."
Posted by: R. Sherman | August 02, 2017 at 15:01
A trombone? Bold choice.
Posted by: David | August 02, 2017 at 15:19
WTP,
I grew up in So. Fla, lived there 40+ years, finally had to trilly up to central Fla. I could no longer dig the scene down south. Wonder if we know each other. ;)
Posted by: Deborah | August 02, 2017 at 15:39
Deborah,
Maybe. Similar sentiment/migration though I go back every Christmas or so. My sister still lives down there.
Could you decipher that? Northeast HS, 1980.
Posted by: WTP | August 02, 2017 at 17:01
Would you two like a private booth?
Don’t worry, I’ll charge it to your accounts.
Posted by: David | August 02, 2017 at 17:13
WTP,
Coral Gables 1979.
[slides room key across bar]
Posted by: Deborah | August 02, 2017 at 17:58
And here I always thought a slush pump was an automatic transmission...
Speaking of slush, what's the bartender's recommendation for one of those blender drinks?
Posted by: Sonny Wayze | August 03, 2017 at 21:24