# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/101 "2012-12-21T16:50:14Z")
boots = shitkickers ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/102 "2012-12-21T17:11:15Z")
Pogey: to grab onto the bumper of a car with your hands, and “ski” along snow- and ice-covered streets. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/103 "2012-12-21T19:04:35Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Pogey: to grab onto the bumper of a car with your hands, and “ski” along snow- and ice-covered streets. Here in Ontario “pogey” is the nickname for EI (Employment Insurance) benefits. Formerly known as UNemployment insurance. What you describe is “car surfing”. In high school when you got in trouble it was called getting “toasted”. I remember writing in my diary that I got “toasted” by the vice-principal for being late. We also said “mow” (rhymes with “cow”) for pigging out on junk food. ---
**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 21, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/104 "2012-12-21T19:16:17Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Pogey: to grab onto the bumper of a car with your hands, and “ski” along snow- and ice-covered streets. We called that “bumper shining.” “Pogey” is drawing unemployment insurance benefits, as in “Driving plow in the winter is great, summer’s off drawing pogey.” ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/105 "2012-12-21T19:23:58Z")
Skitching. Skateboarding + hitching. ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/106 "2012-12-21T19:40:41Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Pogey: to grab onto the bumper of a car with your hands, and “ski” along snow- and ice-covered streets. This was “skitching” in my youth. And we did it hanging on to school buses. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/107 "2013-01-03T17:51:03Z")
Besides the term used for getting stoned, a “bake” was a smack to the back of the neck. A “thorpe” was a quick thump to someone’s breastbone with the four fingers together from a semi-closed hand - the more wrist action, the better. “Jim’s coming to visit you today…” “Jim who?” “Jim \ Thorpe!” “Indian burns” and “wet willies” are more universal… ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2013, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/108 "2013-01-03T18:01:05Z")
Bogart - yep Kife - yep High-waters were too-short pants Wicked - I still use that sometimes, and does Brockton-bred Husband. I haven’t heard wicked-pissah in eons tho! ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/109 "2013-01-04T02:59:17Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > We just called them “flood pants” or “floods” (West suburbs of Cleveland, OH, early to mid '70’s). Where I grew up (Vancouver, WA) it was “high-waters”. In junior high school (also in Vancouver) circa 1978-1981, we had this term,“zeke” (Zeke? zeek?) that meant something along the lines of “dumbass”. I’ve no idea where it came from. My family had no TV after 1976, and we weren’t moviegoers, so if it came from one of those sources I’d have missed it. It was a fairly short-lived term, though; for all I know it was just something invented by one of the cool kids and was confined to my school. ---
**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:** [January 4, 2013, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/110 "2013-01-04T06:47:58Z")
We used to call it “flooding” when your pants were too high. But anyway, I heard some kid on the train today say something absurd, then followed it with psyche/sike. Apparently kids are still saying this. Nice! Then I though to myself, Oh My Fucking God, I’m just like those old people I used to know who would remark “Kids are still saying that?” when they’d hear us using ancient slang. This is the day my youth died, ladies and gentlemen. The day when I honestly --and not as a matter of expression-- was surprised by what the kids are doing. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/111 "2013-01-06T11:11:20Z")
Not a vocabulary term exactly, but a well-known phrase: "That’s what I _thought!"_ In this case, used when two people are getting to the point of blows, and one of them backs off. The other would taunt him with this phrase. ---
**Author:** ![red14action](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eb9ed0/32.png) [@red14action](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red14action)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/112 "2019-06-15T18:33:23Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > “Bogue”-as in not cool, bad, not right. “That’s so _bogue_, dude. You promised me you wouldn’t wear your Pumps today.” Omg, I literally just looked this up to use it because I wasn’t sure how to spell it: When people use it around Michigan and the rare occasion in movies, it sounds more like they are saying “That’s Bode”. and I couldn’t find it anywhere except these message boards! That is so crazy to me because it has been used so often around here when I was younger (90’s). It has to be derived from Bogus and just shortened to “Bogue”. But, I still use this today. We also use/used: Iggy= Ignorant Whack= Lame Weak/Weak Sauce= Pansy Trippin= Crazy Stained=Burned/Told off/Checked/Snap/Yeet My nephew uses Yeet all of the time! It drives me crazy! ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/113 "2019-06-15T20:38:02Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > “Wicked Pissuh”-a term meaning great. Of South Boston origen, seems to have disappeared.:mad: Yeah, I don’t know if you would still here that one around here. When I first moved to Boston, about 50 years ago, I was very confused when someone would say they were “shitfaced,”\* and someone else would say they were “bullshit.”\*\* \*Drunk \*\*Angry. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/114 "2019-06-15T20:58:12Z")
Hawaii pidgin English Wop yo jaw! Wop Wop it! (while stroking the sides of your chin like you had a goatee) - See! Told you! Make A - Make ass, embarassing Sideburns and Buddha Blast - When someone got a hair cut and you could see their skin, you would flick your thumb upwards on the sideburns or give a glancing blow upwards to the back of the head for Buddha Blast. Rat bite - I think this is more universal and still in use. When the barber (or more likely Mom or Dad) slips with the scissors and takes out a chunk of hair. ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/115 "2019-06-15T21:14:19Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > Small town in Illinois - in high school the term for a blow job was “moke”. In Hawaii, a ‘moke’ is a (usually large) urban Polynesian with an attitude. The female equivalent is ‘tita’ (who can be diminutive). You may get away with calling a female a tita as it can be used affectionately. A beloved local singer, Melveen Leed is known as “Da Tita”. But never, ever call a guy a moke, even as a joke, unless you’re really, really good friends with him! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/116 "2019-06-15T21:47:12Z")
In my early sixties junior high, the seventh graders were called Scrubs. I’m sorta disappointed that Fetch never caught on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/117 "2019-06-15T22:11:15Z")
In the 1970s a “hood” had these characteristics: - white male - 17 to 25 years old - had long, straight hair - wore a jean jacket - drove a Trans-Am or something similar - high school dropout - sold drugs on the side ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/118 "2019-06-16T00:32:55Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I see you list “Hollywood Riviera” as your location. For me, \*that in itself \*qualifies as a long forgotten term ( nobody but those who live/ lived there know the term, AFAIK, and I haven’t lived there in 20+ years). Did you grow up there? Oh, gosh, I lived there like 40 years ago!!! Nowhere near Hollywood. I’m so old I remember when hodaddy indicated a non-surfer, and therefore a dweeb. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/119 "2019-06-16T01:11:44Z")
Face - oral sex Dope light - dome light Hock a loogie - spit phlegm with a high arc ---
**Author:** ![lingyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@lingyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lingyi)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2019, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forgotten-slang-from-your-childhood/643784/120 "2019-06-16T01:57:56Z")
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