R - S Flashcards
Radioactive
Very popular
Rag top
A convertible car
Rap
To tattle on someone
Beats
Rattle your cage
Get upset
Raunchy
Messy or gross in some other way
Razz my berries
Excite or impress me
Real gone
Very much in love. Also unstable. Hmm, there’s a difference?
Reds
The communists
Right-o
Okay
Rock
A diamond
Rocket
A car
Hot rodders
Rod
A car
Hot rodders
Round wheels
An easy woman (heels rounded by tipping backward into bed)
Royal shaft
Badly or unfairly treated
Rug rats
Small children
Rumble
A fight among gangs
Scream
Go fast
Screamer
A hot rod
Scratch out
To accelerate hard and fast
Shades
Sunglasses
Shaft or shafted
Getting a bad deal
Shiner
A black eye
Shoot low, they’re riding shetlands
Be careful
Shot down
Failed
Shuck, shuckster
A deceiver, liar, or cheater
Sides
Vinyl records
Sing
To tattle or inform on someone
Beats
Sit on it
Loosely means “up your keister” popularized by the tv show “Happy Days”
Snogging
Kissing… and only kissing!
Socs
Short for ‘socials’ the “in” crowd opposite of ‘greasers’
Sounds
Music
Souped up
A car modified to go fast
Spaz
Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz
Split
Leave
Split a wig
To beat someone up
Square
A regular, normal person. A conformist
Stacked
A woman with large er, ah… well you know, well endowed
Stacked up
To wreck a car
Hot rodders
Steady
Continuous, knowledge of doing something
Stomps
A social group that dressed in western wear
Submarine races
While waiting for the submarines to race, which might take quite awhile, couples found creative ways of killing the time
Subterranean
A hipster. Used by both Ginsburg and Kerouac
Beats
Suicide knob
A knob on the steering wheel to make turning easier
Supermurgiteoid
Cool or with it
Swell
Great, good, or wonderful. Can also be used sarcastically
