Expressions-Slangs

= According to The Cambridge online dictionary, a slang is: " Very informal language that is usually spoken rather than written, used especially by particular groups of people ", so read above some expressions and slangs that were common in the 70's. =
 * === "Far Out" - really cool. ===
 * === "Bummer" - An expression of disappointment. ===
 * === "Downer" -bad, disappointment. A boring person, depressing. ===
 * === "Heavy "- Also cool, but deep, on a spacey, intellectual level. "Oh man, that's too heavy for me." Also pertains to great music, a pre-cursor to heavy metal. ===
 * === "Bubble Gum, Bubble Gummers" - teen, and light pop music. Bubble gummers relate to the people that preferred this music. ===
 * === "Rip Off" - a swindle, cheat, theft. Often used to express major disappointment. ===
 * === "Space "- To daydream, be lost in thought, or to forget to do something. ===
 * === "Head"-Hippies, people who were generally cool, deep. ===
 * === "Freak"-Same as above. ===
 * === "Freak Out"-Originally, it was to be wild and go crazy about what was passionate to us. It also described panic. ===
 * === "The Establishment "-This one hung on for only a few short years. Relates to older, 30-ish people. Adults not within our network. ===
 * === "Mugwump"- a high up important person. It's origin is in republican party extremist politics, but became slanged as important people in general. ===
 * === "Farm Out"- a derivative of "far out." A classic example of stupidity. ===
 * === "Trippy"-pertaining to cool things unexplained, visually/aurally stunning, or just a great way to describe something or someone over that was the top. Also relates to really cool things or people that were difficult to explain in any other way. ===
 * === "Truckin'"-Traveling. Also used for walking, running, or working on a project. ===
 * === "Split, Jam"- To leave, take off. ===
 * === "Book"- To leave, take off-mostly in a hurry. ===
 * === "Burn"-A cheat. To be cheated was to get "burned." ===
 * === "Booger Jam"- To leave, take off-mostly in a hurry with extreme emphasis. More stupidity at its finest hour. ===
 * === "Cop"- to get something, buy something, acquire something. Also to get an attitude. ===
 * === "Fuzz"- Cops, Police. ===
 * === "Bogart"- to be a hog, selfish. Keep something to yourself, not share. ===
 * === "Flash Back"- a revelation. An "ah-ha!" moment, to recall something nearly forgotten, or something you wish to forget. ===
 * === "Munchies"- a universal term used today, but in the 70's, it referred to having the insane hunger symptoms that marijuana creates once the high starts to wear off. ===
 * === "Kipe"- To steal something. "Hey, who kiped my roach clip?". ===
 * === "Get Down"-Party, jam out (musically), strut your stuff. ===
 * === "Stone"- Pure, absolute, virtual. A hot girl was a "stone fox." or "I'm stone in love." ===
 * === "Old Man/Old Lady"-Quite unlike the 60's where these terms were slang references to parents, "old man and old lady" referred to husband/wife, or boyfriend/girlfriend. ===
 * === "What it is, what it was"- What's happening. ===
 * === "Plastic"- Cheap, phony, superficial. "Plastic" people were braggarts, social gainers. ===
 * === "Right On"-Another time enduring expression. Meaning: yes, cool, I agree, you're right, you better believe it, yeah! ===
 * === "Power to the People"- This one speaks for itself. ===
 * === "More Power to Ya"- Good luck. ===