We talked this Beat Lingo in college. We used terms like "cool", "groovy", "bread", "bugged" in those days because, well, it was cool. Teenagers and adults still use it. Do you know the origin? The following words comprise of the Beatniks' Glossary I got through Molly Fisk (thanks Molly) and it brought those days back. After reading "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac I became more interested in their lingo.
So it is here for the Beat Generation, the Beat Poets, musicians, collegians, of those days and now THE BEATNIKS' GLOSSARY:
BEATNIKS' GLOSSARY
Angel = One who pays the bill
Axe = Musical instrument
Beat = Way of life for a select few Thank God!
Beatnik = One who lives like there's no tomorrow
Beatkel =Tourist
Blow the Jets = To become angry
Bread = money
Bugged = bothered
Beatsville, Swinsville = a good place (for beatniks)
Blast the Edison = Turn off the lights
Bent Brummel = Bow Tie
Barrelsville = Las Vegas
Cat = Cool Jazz musician
Cool = Wonderful, he who enjoys without showing emotion
Crazy = good beatnik, accepted
Cube = worse than square, strict conformity
Chick = single girl
Chicken = engaged girl
Plucked chicken = married woman
Cover = lingerie
Make with cover = to get dressed
Cheap creep = freeloader
Cave = office
Can the lip = stop talking
Cyclops = eye glasses
Cool it = slow down
Crazy quilt = new dress
To "Cherry Tree" = to lie
Dad, Daddy O = Term of affection
Dullsville = unpleasant place
Dig = to understand
Dummy up = shut up
The End = the most wonderful
Face = identification
Freebee = freeloader
Flat = analyst's couch
Fuzz = police, federal agents
Fall in = to enter
Fall on = rough an individual up
Fall out = to leave, exit
Flick = motion picture
Goat = beard, goatee
A groove = a thrilling exciting thing to do
A groovie = one who understands the swing of things
A gas = something wonderful
Gone = really with it, swinging
Ginchiest = the greatest
Galaxy = one's circle of friends, group
Germsville = hospital
Cooney roost = library
George change = change for a dollar
Graveyard = deadbeat
Hip = to be with it, to understand
Hipster = best character, musician
Hootenanny = a wild beat party
To feel hairy = to feel good
Handcuffs = parents
Head shrinker = psychoanalyst
To be high = enjoying oneself
Men house = security house
Hustling Hershey = ex
The Horn = the telephone
An Ivy = suit of clothes
Ivy tower = university, college
Iron pile up = getaway
Hot iron = a gun
Icck = a bow tie
Jazz = music, collection of items
Jazzing = to make love
Juice = liquor
Juicehead = one who drinks
Juiceman = bartender
Johns, Long Johns = trousers
Kick sticks = cigarettes
King's jive = English language
Kookie = wild character
Knuckles to the creep = to do physical harm to someone
The Lama = the leader of the group
Later = goodbye
Leathers = shoes
Large charge = double drinks
A mazda = a very hip person
Moo juice = milk
Moo goo = butter
To make = accomplish an action
Moss, moss = etc. etc.
A mickey mouse = a wrist watch
Murgatroid = an outcast, a square, a dope
Money run = very easy, ordinary
Muscle cats = rock and roll-ers
Nadaville = nowhere, dull place
Orbs = eyes
Our St. Beatnik = Santa Claus
Off the wall = very far out, extremely unusual
Pad = apartment
Pick up on = to dig, to understand
Pucker palace = drive in movie
Rags = sportswear
Short trip to Rio = coffee break
Hot or Cool Rod = nice automobile
Fuzz rod = police car
Swinging = one who is with it
Swinging like sixteen = really wild
Shades = sun glasses
Swings in squareville = inferiority complex
Squaresville iron = jail
Squaresville peep = police line up
Stable = garage
Stable the iron = park the car
Solo flight = going stag
Snagged stag = going steady
Shake it = forget it
Soco = social conscience
Slides = photograph records
Squatchel = love making
Turn up the stereo = listen to me
Torniquette = wedding ring
Twin trees = high heels
Thrill pills = benzadene, dexidrine
Tough toenails = very difficult
Tuned in = with it
Vitamin village = grocery store
A Washington = a dollar bill
A words = an attorney
Way out = unusual
Wild = terrific, unusual
To wail = to have a good time, to play a tune well
Whistleburg = Centre where many girls pass by
Wasteland = far away
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