The town where I lived while in high school was the home of [St. Andrews University (North Carolina) - Wikipedia](St Andrew’s Presbyterian College), which was designed (in 1961!) to be accessible to people with disabilities. As such it has a large disabled population. When I lived there (a quarter of a century ago) there were two main groups - the “Wheelies” and the “TABs” The Wheelies were the handicapped kids, and the TABs were the rest - the “Temporarily Able-Bodied”.
I always wondered how widely burnouts was used. This was the term we used for everyone who went out and smoked on the hill behind our high school. I graduated in 1976 from a highschool in the middle of Michigan’s lower peninsula. Can’t remember any other non-standard nicknames.
We had Kickers in late 90s San Antonio, which meant anyone who dressed/was into the country western scene. Kickers is short for Shit Kickers.
Third Formers (first year High School students) were routinely referred to as “Turds” (instead of Thirds, geddit?) at my High School.
The greasers/burnouts in my hometown and a few surrounding towns were called Ginkers.
I worked with a girl from Morristown NJ (or near there) who claimed that in her high school they were called Hessians. This was long before I ever heard the term “hesher,” and I think she really meant Hessians, like the German soldiers in the Revolutionary War. Which is pretty odd.
We called these kids the Boce-tards.
The boys with long hair, Korn t-shirts, and JNCOs and the girls who hung out with them were called skaters, whether or not they skated. Mostly we just smoked pot.
What I love about boces is that even my parents used it back in the wayback to mean 'tard. Or as the usual contraction goes “bo-tarded.”
We had the Jew Crew. Of course, I went to a magnet school in South Florida, so like three-quarters of the school was Jewish anyhow.
We called anybody with a skateboard Skate Dicks, whether or not they were actual dicks.
I think I’m a bit older than you. Skate Dicks were decked out in Vision Street Wear and Vans when I was in high school.
Omigod, yes! I grew up in NY state too, and I forgot all about “Bo-See” as a synonym for idiot.
I went to high school in a small New England town that had a town green in the center (with the flag pole, war memorial, etc.) with a roundabout around it - it was known locally as “The Oval”. The stoners who hung out there were known as the “Ovalteens.”
When I was 14 or 15 my friends and I were suddenly tagged with the nickname “The Norwegian Mafia”. To this day I have no idea what that was supposed to mean, although it was obviously not intended to be flattering. None of us were Norwegian, and this was in the Upper Midwest so being of Norwegian descent wouldn’t have been especially noteworthy anyway. This was years before the Columbine shootings, so it wasn’t a reference to the “Trenchcoat Mafia”. I suspect it didn’t really mean anything, it just popped into some jerk’s head one day and stuck.
I went to Cornell, where I was in the School of Agriculture. (Cornell is the only member or the Ivy League with an Ag School, being partly a land-grant university.) Us Aggies were looked down on by the Artsie-Fartsies in the School of Arts and Sciences. The Hume Eccies, in the School of Human Ecology (formerly Home Eccies in the School of Home Economics) were also pretty low ranked. But the lowest on the totem pole were the Hotelies, who went to the the Statler School of Hotel Administration. That’s where all the jocks who couldn’t hack the other schools ended up.