How many of these 60s slang terms do you know?
Ah, the 1960s. It had quite a lot of bad things (like apartheid, the Vietnam War, nuclear testing, and Val Doonican) but it's mainly remembered for being a decade of social change and a general loosening up about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The 60s was the era of platform shoes and flared jeans, questionable recreational drug use, and psychedelia. And, just like all generations, the young people of the era developed a language all of their own. Much of the slang that emerged from this magical decade remain in the common lexicon, but there's some words that have died a death. Well, we're here to revive those dead and buried slang terms - so stick a daisy chain around your neck, drop out of college, and put the needle on the record. How many of these 1960s slang terms can you recognise and translate?
1
If someone described a place as "a bad scene", what would they have meant?
2
If something was described as "heavy", what did that mean?
3
Who was your "old man" (think Joni Mitchell)?
4
If our long-haired ancestors in the 1960s were said to "go ape", what had they done?
5
What was acid to 60s hippies?
6
What did it mean to "crash"?
7
If something was "cool", was it:
8
If someone was "going round the bend", what were they doing?
9
If something was described as "mint", what did it mean?
10
What would a 1960s dude have done with "shades"?
11
What was a "load"?
12
Who would be coming if someone shouted "hey, hide your stash - it's the pigs!"?
13
If something is "a little out there", what is it?
14
Who were the "five-O"?
15
What type of vehicle was described as a "pork chop"?
16
If something was "far out", what did it mean?
17
If something was described as "killer", what did THAT mean?
18
If something was a "pisser", was that good or bad?
19
When 1960s conspiracy theorists talked about Big Brother, who were they talking about?
20
60s dudes and dudettes were excited if they had "scratch" (or maybe some didn't care). What is "scratch"?
21
If you were "rapping" in the 1960s, what were you doing?
22
What was "bread", (other than the doughy, yeasty loafy-type thing)?
23
If someone described an activity as "not exactly brain surgery" what did they mean?
24
What is someone saying about someone if they're describing them as an "egg head"?
25
What is someone saying if they describe something as "grotty"?
26
If a man was described as a "Ken Doll", what would someone be REALLY saying?
27
If someone said "exactamundo" they weren't having a stroke, they were saying:
28
What did it mean if someone had "punked out"?
29
If you were "jetting: what would you be doing?
30
What word came into wider use as a popular sentence filler in the 1960s?
31
If somebody was "full of it", what did that mean?
32
If somebody had "beef" with you, what - exactly - did that mean?
33
What was someone's "pad"?
34
If you "dig" someone's threads, you:
35
What would have been your "main squeeze"?
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