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