# Forgotten slang from your childhood **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 12, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784 "2012-12-12T02:09:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/61 "2012-12-15T23:53:48Z")
‘shady’= awesome ‘top shade’= really awesome. I remember one of my cousins using them constantly for a few years, but I’ve not heard them since I was about 14. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/62 "2012-12-16T00:35:33Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > ???wet?? “Hot-boxing” a cigarette means (or meant) hitting it so hard that it makes the cherrry huge and the cigarette becomes “hot” acrid. For us, “hot boxing” meant smoking pot in a small space, so much so that you didn’t need to actually toke on the joint to get high, at least in theory (as in, “let’s go and hot-box Joe’s basement apartment!”) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/63 "2012-12-16T00:56:30Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > For us, “hot boxing” meant smoking pot in a small space, so much so that you didn’t need to actually toke on the joint to get high, at least in theory (as in, “let’s go and hot-box Joe’s basement apartment!”) Ha! For us, that is referred to as “clam-baking”. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/64 "2012-12-16T13:18:08Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > ???wet?? “Hot-boxing” a cigarette means (or meant) hitting it so hard that it makes the cherrry huge and the cigarette becomes “hot” acrid. We called smoking weed in a car with all ventilation shut down “hot boxing”. Ideally it would be so smokey someone outside the car wouldn’t be able to see the occupants. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/65 "2012-12-16T14:08:30Z")
In high school, someone who’d gotten his ass kicked had been “latered”. As in _later_ made past-tense. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/66 "2012-12-17T05:24:09Z")
> [@Push\_You\_Down](#): > > I had never heard kipe before until a co-worker used it quite a bit but in situations where I was never able to ask her the meaning… and it always sounded more like “kyke.” So it freaked me out. > > “We’re just going to go in and see if we can kipe some seats.” > > One day I heard it as KIPE. > I think I just searched “kipe” to see if that’s what it was. Its nordic in origin I think. We definitely said “kike” when I was a teenager (northeastern Illinois, late '60s/early '70s). ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/67 "2012-12-17T05:54:01Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > This was Northern Ontario, where jelly-filled donuts were called jam-busters! Nature’s call where are you fr? Jam-busters, dubes, gitch, all are very familiar. I grew up in Thunder Bay. Where we smear pink frosting on a fried cinnamon bun and call it a Persian. (Much to the amusement of my now sister in law who is half Iranian. Come to think of it, ex husband’s parents were from Denmark. Danish and Persian, our family likes pastry. )I am very familiar with skids, but we didn’t call them that. (Much,) They were Bangers. As in head-bangers. Not much else I can think of now, more will come to me. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/68 "2012-12-17T06:23:33Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > ???wet?? “Hot-boxing” a cigarette means (or meant) hitting it so hard that it makes the cherrry huge and the cigarette becomes “hot” acrid. Right. And the cigarette would be all soft, ugh. I had a best friend who used to hot box it, and I wondered why she would even want to…who wants to suck in soooo much smoke at once. Hated smoking after her. She still smokes to this day, I’m sure just hotboxing away. Hey, listedmia, I still use ‘gank’. (pronounced gaynk, with a long a). [QUOTE=MOL] So after having typed this, I guess the neck scratching bit comes from the dramatic affectation of looking down in embarrassment, loosening one’s collar, scratching the back of the neck, etc, when someone feels stupid. Never thought of that. In any case, good times! [/QUOTE] Wow! I bet you are right. Now explain why we said, “talkin’ out the side of your neck”. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/69 "2012-12-17T08:00:48Z")
scurve – anyone deemed gross. “Don’t sit with the scurves.” ---
**Author:** ![antechinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@antechinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/antechinus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/70 "2012-12-17T08:33:37Z")
“Dead set” is completely serious. As in “She’s a dead set spunk”. ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/71 "2012-12-17T14:34:14Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Nature’s call where are you fr? Jam-busters, dubes, gitch, all are very familiar. I grew up in Thunder Bay. Neighbour! I spent a couple of my early years in Thunder Bay, before we moved a couple hours west - a tiny widening of Hwy 17 called Upsala (population 500: if you didn’t live there you’ve never heard of it). After a couple years there we moved to the big town of Ignace, another hour west (population 2,500!) where I finished growing up (well, that’s debateable). Even in Ignace, every paycheque we would still drive to T-Bay for groceries until a descent supermarket finally opened up. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/72 "2012-12-17T16:05:26Z")
“Jail Break” When I was a kid, motion detector lights became a huge thing for people’s yards/homes. If we stopped to pick up someone, and their motion lights all came on, we would scream, “JAIL BREAK” and run back to the car. Seemed funny at the time. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/73 "2012-12-17T17:05:21Z")
Kipe? Kike? It’s kiFe. Like Kayaker, I didn’t hotbox cigarettes or rooms. I hotboxed cars. Sike (not Psych) was more than “Not”. It was a psychological attack. A total fake-out. High five. SIKE! You’re cool… SIKE! You’re shooting free throws? SIKE! SIKE! SIKE SIKE SIKE! To steal something wasn’t gank but rather jank - and it wasn’t used to describing stealing in a literal sense but rather copying - specifically: Janking my style. And most hilarious in retrospect, telling people they were trifling as far back as 2nd grade (mid 90’s) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/74 "2012-12-17T17:10:11Z")
> [@Nature\_s\_Call](#): > > Rain pants. When someone’s pant legs were too short we would say, “Hey, you expecting a flood? You’re wearing _rain pants_” We just called them “flood pants” or “floods” (West suburbs of Cleveland, OH, early to mid '70’s). > [@](#): > > He must have thought there was some sexual connotation to “rain pants” (wherever would he get that idea?) “Raincoat” is slang for [_condom_](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=raincoat), and (more rarely) a sexual practice. (No pictures, but language on linked page may be NSFW) ---
**Author:** ![followrivers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@followrivers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/followrivers)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/75 "2012-12-17T17:12:03Z")
“Stogie” was a cigarette. “Parlayin’” for hanging out. “Bet” was like yes or I agree. “Bogart”/“Bogarting” to hog something all to one’s self and be really selfish. I feel like this was especially used in regards to weed or food. “Butter” something really nice. I actually heard someone ask someone else for a “stoge” the other day, I haven’t heard that word in over ten years. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/76 "2012-12-17T17:59:05Z")
I just remembered another one. An unintelligent person was a stunod. (Pronounced stoo-nod.) ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/77 "2012-12-17T18:18:17Z")
Unfortunately, “gay” is still used as an insult, but it’s been many years since I’ve heard anybody called a “gayrod” or a “gaymont,” both very popular slams around my elementary and junior high schools. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/78 "2012-12-17T18:32:48Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Nature’s call where are you fr? Jam-busters, dubes, gitch, all are very familiar. I grew up in Thunder Bay. According to Wikipedia, [“gitch” and “gotch” are popular in Manitoba and Sask., and “ginch” and “gonch” are popular in Alberta and B.C.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Prairies_.28Manitoba.2C_Saskatchewan_and_Alberta.29) I grew up in Saskatoon, I’d mostly use the term “gitch”, but a wedgie was always a “gotch-pull”. And [GWG brand jeans](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Garment_Co.) were jokingly referred to as “George Washington’s Gitch”. P.S. We had a Mr. Dube (pronounced “doob”) as a substitute teacher once and there was much snickering. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/79 "2012-12-17T19:04:24Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Unfortunately, “gay” is still used as an insult, but it’s been many years since I’ve heard anybody called a “gayrod” or a “gaymont,” both very popular slams around my elementary and junior high schools. We had “gaylord” as the slam (70’s). ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/80 "2012-12-17T19:06:52Z")
We said gaylord as kids in the 80s and 90s too. There was an apt complex in LA called Gaylord (probably still is) that we’d snicker at every time we went by. “Hey, look, they named that building after you. _Gaylord_! Ha ha ha ha ha!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784.md?page=5)