A list of 1920’s slang words for your reading pleasure
- Bee’s Knees – An extraordinary person, thing, idea
- Berries – is attractive or pleasing; similar to bee’s knees, As in “It’s the berries.”
- Big Cheese – The most important or influential person. Same as big shot
- Bluenose – An excessively puritanical person, a prude
- Bump Off – To murder
- Carry a Torch – To have a crush on someone
- Cat’s Meow – Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee’s knees; The best or greatest
- Cat’s Pajamas – Same as cat’s meow
- Cheaters – Eyeglasses
- Crush – An infatuation
- Dogs – feet
- Drugstore Cowboy – a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls
- Dumb Dora – a stupid female
- Fall Guy – victim of a frame
- Flat Tire – A dull insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan
- Frame – To give false evidence, to set up someone
- Gams – A woman’s legs
- Giggle Water – An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
- Gin Mill – An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar
- Hard Boiled – a tough, strong guy
- Heebie-Jeebies – The jitters
- Hooch – Bootleg liquor
- Hoofer – Dancer
- Hotsy-Totsy – Pleasing
- Jalopy – Old car
- Joint – A club, usually selling alcohol
- Keen – Attractive or appealing
- Kisser – Mouth
- Lounge Lizard – a guy that is sexually active
- Moll – A gangster’s girl
- Neck – Kissing with passion
- Pinch – To arrest
- Pushover – A person easily convinced or seduced
- Ritzy – Elegant (from the hotel)
- Scram – Ask someone to leave immediately
- Sheba – A woman with sex appeal (from the movie Queen of Sheba)
- Sheik – A man with sex appeal (from the Valentino movies)
- Speakeasy – An illicit bar selling bootleg liquor
- Spiffy – An elegant appearance
- Struggle Buggy – the backseat of a car. A parent’s worst nightmare
- Stuck On – Having a crush on
- Swanky – Ritzy
- Swell – Wonderful. Also: a rich man
- Take for a Ride -To drive off with someone in order to bump them off
- Torpedo – A hired gun
- Upchuck – To vomit when one has drunk too much
- Whoopee – To have a good time
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