Fashion & Fads

Slang

Hip, hep, keen, neat-o, cool, groovy, far-out,
outa-sight, boss, square
(Dig it, Daddy-O, I'd love to add more,
but this just ain't my bag.)

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Posted by chrisbroz at 12:53 pm (PDT) on Sun October 3, 2021   
"...pick up what I'm puttin' down..." (can you dig it)..."Do you understand???
Posted by notsteve at 4:34 pm (PDT) on Sun August 1, 2021   
Seems that only "cool" has withstood the test of time. 
Posted by notsteve at 4:32 pm (PDT) on Sun August 1, 2021   
@bret
To "shine them [someone] on" meant, depending on the the era and who you hung out with, to ignore (70's) or to deceive (80's or later) 
Posted by Bret at 9:09 pm (PDT) on Sat June 19, 2021   
In Jordan junior high, in Burbank, Ca, in the 80s, we said "shine".
This should not be confused with "shine it on" from the 70s.
But I think there's a slight difference between the two.
Shine it on was more like "I think I'll pass".
Shine meant "Screw you, I'm not going to do it."
But maybe someone from the 70s on here knows better?
Posted by Marel at 9:03 pm (PDT) on Mon March 15, 2010   
It was usually spelled "outasite" in Teen magazines, and as a 10 or 11 year-old, it took me forever to figure out it was pronounced Out-a-SIGHT, NOT out-TASS-it (as in opposite). I felt SO dumb when I had that brainwave! And I couldn't figure out what "groovy kinda love" was - grooves, as in a record? It was only "kinda love", so it was groovy, not smooth? What did it MEAN?! But I loved the song anyway.

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