1. Do you speak 40’s?

2. INSTRUCTIONS What follows is a list of popular 1940’s slang terms.
See if your folks can explain the slang term.
Some of these terms are obsolete, some are still in everyday usage.
Some are a bit provocative -- remember it was a different era!
Get your folks to reminiscing about how they may have used these terms when they were young:
“Did you ever go to a speakeasy?”

3. Sing like a bird

4. Tattle, snitch.

5. A broken record

6. Repeat endlessly

7. Spiffy

8. Sharp, fashionable

9. Whistling Dixie

10. Wasting time

11. Circle the drain

12. Dying

13. “Hey sugar, are you rationed?”
Going steady?

14. “Are you single?”

15. Two cents’ worth

16. An opinion

17. Make a Pass

18. Ask for sex

19. BOONDOCKS

20. In the middle of nowhere

21. Carry a torch

22. Have a crush on someone

23. Cat’s Meow

24. The best

25. snood

26. Woman’s hair net

27. Reefer

28. Marijuana cigarette

29. “Quit your belly-achin’”

30. “Stop complaining”

31. Cooking with gas

32. Making rapid progress

33. Stacked

34. A buxom woman

35. Buy the farm

36. die

37. Fast

38. A woman of easy virtue

39. Ducky Shincracker
Good dancer

40. Good dancer

41. Fat head

42. stupid

43. Hung

44. Well endowed man

45. Eager beaver

46. Overly ambitious

47. In cahoots

48. Plotting

49. Hooch

50. Moonshine

51. Unmentionables

52. Woman’s underwear

53. Knuckle sandwich

54. Punch in the face

55. Aces

56. The best

57. “In like flynn”

58. No resistance

59. Kibosh

60. Stop

61. No dice

62. No way

63. Peepers

64. eyes

65. Make Whoopee

66. Have recreational sex

67. The big house

68. jail

69. Gams

70. A woman’s legs

71. Rhubarb

72. decoy

73. Spill your guts

74. confess

75. Smooch

76. kiss

77. Take a powder

78. leave

79. Rub out

80. kill

81. Patsy

82. Fool, dupe

83. Gobbledygook

84. nonsense

85. Dame

86. woman

87. Cold fish

88. Unemotional

89. Cheesy

90. Tacky, cheap

91. Be bop

92. Jazzy music/dance

93. “I have a bone to pick with you.”

94. “We have to talk.”

95. Dreamboat

96. Handsome young man

97. Fast woman

98. Woman who sleeps around

99. Hard boiled

100. unemotional

101. Get hitched

102. Get married

103. Get the dope

104. Share information

105. Go belly up

106. die

107. Speakeasy

108. Illegal bar/nightclub

109. The End