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The Outsiders Slang
slang terms used in the novel, The Outsiders
Term | Definition |
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Greaser | Wears grease in hair and lower class |
Soc | Short for social-upper class kids who have nice clothes and fancy cars |
Loned it | Walked alone |
Dig | To like something |
Hood | Short for hoodlum-bad kid |
Bawl | To cry |
Lift | To steal |
Rumble | Large group fight |
Outfit | Gang or group of people |
Cooler | Jail |
Broad | Girl |
Savvy | To understand or get it |
Fuzz | Police |
Kicks | For fun |
Doll | Good looking guy |
Looker | Good looking girl |
Booze | Alcohol |
Boozed up | Drunk |
Heater | Gun |
A weed | A cigarette |
Half crocked | Mostly or sort of drunk |
Rat race | Feels like you can't get to the top |
Rep | Reputation |
Chips are down | Things are not going your way |
Like it or lump it | Take things as they come your way- for bad or for good |
Class | Social class |
Soused | Drunk |
Snooker | Billiards-to play pool |
A woofin | Kidding |
Reeling pickled | Really drunk |
Bluff | Fake someone out |
Reformatory | place for badly behaved kids |
Break us | To break our spirit or drive |
Cancer stick | Cigarette |
JDs | Juvenile delinquent |
a gas | A lot of fun |
bad | Awesome |
bag | To steal |
deuce | A 1932 Ford |
pad | Someone's house |
thongs | Something you wear on your feet |
Score | To know what's what- understands that way things are |
Jumped | getting attacked by a group of people |
Wise cracker | One who is obnoxiously self-assertive and arrogant: |
Cuss | swear, or use foul language |
Corvair | A car manufactured by Chevy |
Savvy | Knowledgeable, understands how things work |
Let’s split | Let’s leave quickly |
Souped up increase the horsepower of an engine | increase the horsepower of an engine |
Slugged | punched |
Hood | a bum, a bad person, a kid from a bad neighborhood or gang |
Bull session | an informal conversation |
Blade | a Knife |
Rolled | having been busted by the police for a small incident |
Lighting up | Lighting a cigarette |