Slang of the 70s
I grew up in the 70s in California. Of course, we had our own vocabulary as all teens do. Here are just a few of the terms that I caught myself saying in the 70s. What about you?
Cool
Groovy
You’re such a spaz!
Dream on!
Far Out!
Hey man (of course you would say this to a girl or boy)
You know (after every sentence sometimes!)
like (Before every sentence!)
Right On!
For sure (were you from the Valley?)
airhead (a stupid person)
Bitchin’ (I don’t know how many signatures that are in my yearbook that say “Have a bitchin’ summer!”)
Bummer
Copasetic (very cool)
Dork or Dufus
Dude (for the surfers out there)
Fox or Foxy
Funky
Gnarly (another surfer term)
Gross
Hunk
Later
Neat
Peel Out
Rad
Reamed
Stoned
Narc (the undercover narcotics police at school)
Totally (another Valley term)
Tubular (surfers again)
Whatever
Yeah
Retarded

Hi hun! Just wanted to stop by and let you know I wrote a little something about you in my blog today!
March 30th, 2007 at 4:53 pm