boots = shitkickers
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.
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.”
Skitching. Skateboarding + hitching.
This was “skitching” in my youth. And we did it hanging on to school buses.
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 <thwack!> Thorpe!”
“Indian burns” and “wet willies” are more universal…
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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:
In my early sixties junior high, the seventh graders were called Scrubs.
I’m sorta disappointed that Fetch never caught on. 
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
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.
Face - oral sex
Dope light - dome light
Hock a loogie - spit phlegm with a high arc
Bubble gum light - The old fashioned rounded lights on top of police or fire cars