What Do You Remember? 70s slang

[Mystic]

Can you dig it?

Really good one. We used that a lot.

 

[Mystic]

Do you want to ball?

Cop a nut. (pardone)

 

[Mystic]

A load --- person inclined to ingestion of narcotics, (rare) booze, etc.

 

[Mystic]

Get on it. (go fast, as in motor vehicle)

 

[Mystic]

Get it on. (well, y;all know what...)

 

[Mystic]

Get stuffed. (IIRC, came from the Happy Days program? But it crept into "the conversation")

nb: I don't recall "Stifle / stifle yerself" making its way into "the conversation"

 

[Mystic]

Don't know, can't dance. (possible Chicagoism only, not sure)

 

[Mystic]

Jive --- surely this has already been cited?

 

[Mystic]

Blast / a blast -- maybe also a holdover from the '60s...

 

[Mystic]

Fly / Be fly

 

[Mystic]

Dork (also used in '60s?)

 

[Mystic]

Freaks (reference to "hippie types")

Straight(s) -- "square(s)" reimagined

 

[Mystic]

Out of sight (pronounced outta sight) - usually exclamatory.

 

[Mystic]

Head case ~ damage case (maybe these are still in use?)

 

[Mystic]

Fool / I pity the fool who...

 

[Mystic]

Get real

 

[Shominy]

Fool / I pity the fool who...

80s Rocky III?

 

[Shominy]

Built like a brick house (put into song, eventually)

 

[Shominy]

My man.

 

[Mystic]

My man.

My man is loaded... (gots lots o' money or whatever)

Bread (money & possibly another holdover fro the '60s, but it was still - ahem -- currency in the '70s)

Green (also money)