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slang terms used in the novel, The Outsiders

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Definition
Greaser   Wears grease in hair and lower class  
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Soc   Short for social-upper class kids who have nice clothes and fancy cars  
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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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