Slang

History

A

Above my pay grade – don’t ask me

Active duty – sexually promiscuous boy

Armored heifer – canned milk

B

Bonkers – Over the top, wild

C

Carry a Torch – To ardently admire/have a crush on someone

Cock-eyed – Backward/crazy/illogical

Cook with gas – to do something right

D

Dead hoofer – poor dancer

Doll dizzy – girl crazy

Ducky shincracker – a good dancer

F

Fat-head – stupid or foolish person

Flap your lips – Talking

Flip your wig – to lose control of yourself

Fuddy-Duddy – old-fashioned person

G

Gas – either a good time or something that was really funny

Gobbledygook – double talk, long speech

Gone with the wind – run off (with the money)

Grandstand – to show off

H

Hi-de-ho – hello

Hi sugar, are you rationed? – are you going steady?

Hotsy-Totsy – Pleasing/flirtatious/the right stuff

I

In cahoots with – conspiring with

K

Khaki wacky – boy crazy

L

Lettuce – money

P

Pennies from heaven – easy money

S

Share crop – sexually promiscuous girl

Snap your cap – get angry

Swanky – Appearances of wealth, grandeur, ritz

T

Take a powder – to leave