Stay Positive: Revisiting Slang

Here's a short article that shows you that the 20s had some sweet slang: "59 More Slang Phrases from the 1920s We Should Start Using Again." 

Here are my favorites: 

• Air Tight
• Barneymugging
• Blind Pig
• Boiled as an Owl
• Eel's Hips
• Face Stretcher
• Flat Tire
• Hit on All Sixes
• Mustard Plaster
• Off-Time Jive

That list led me to checking out slang from the 80s since that's when I was a teenager.

LikeTotally80s.com has a decent list. I used the term "psych" a lot back in 6th and 7th grade.  

Culture Brats offers its Top 26 80s Slang. I always liked the terms "stoked" and "bogus." 

One of the most extensive lists I found is the "Glossary of Eighties Terms" by In the 80s. Below is a list of my favorites. Ones that I used back then have one asterisk (*), and terms that I still might use from time to time have two asterisks (**). 

• Amped**
• Big Time*
• Bite Me
• Bogart
• Burn**
• Butt Ugly
• Dexter
• Dickweed*
• Dis**
• Face*
• Get Real**
• Lame**
• Mall Chick
• Mental*
• Raw
• Schweet
• Skeezer
• Spiffy**
• Step Off
• Tits
• Trippin'*

One term I didn't see on the 80s lists is "doggin'," a verb meaning that you are giving someone a hard time. For example: "Why are you always doggin' on Luke?" or "I'm just doggin' on you, man." That term was widely used in my junior high school.