Slang from the 1920's

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Slang from the 1920's

Instructions: Read the pages in your textbook "Canadian History A Sense of Time" and use 12 of the following 1920's slang words to tell a story about the hardships faced in the early 1920's by soldiers (pages 62,63), job hunters (pages 66,67), farmers, immigrants children (pages 68,69) women (pages 74,75), and aboriginals (pages 76,77), the temperance movement and police (pages 88,89).

1. all wet - wrong, mistaken
2. apple sauce - nonsense, meaningless flattery, or baloney
3. baloney- nonsense
4. bees knees - wonderful person
5. berries - the best
6. big cheese - very important person
7. blind pig - illegal drinking spot
8. bump off - to murder
9. bunk - nonsense
10. cat's meow - very sharp
11. cheaters - eyeglasses
12. coffin varnish - cheap, inferior wisky
13. dead soldier - An empty beer or whiskey bottle.
14. dogs - human shoes
15. drugstore cowboy - A young man who hangs around public places and shows off in an attempt to impress women.
16. flat tire - A dull or boring person.
17. gangster - A criminal who belongs to a gang.
18. gatecrashers - Police raid on speakeasy.
19. giggle water - alcohol,booze
20. gin mill - an illegal still for making alcohol.
21. heebie-jeebies - The jitters.
22. high hat - snobbish.
23. hooch - whiskey or liquor.
24. hoofer - chorus girl.
25. jack - money.
26. keen - attractive
27. kisser - lips
28. moonshine - whisky or liquor, usually cheap and low-quality because it is made in illegal stills. may also mean nonsense or baloney.
29. upchuck - to throw up
30. real McCoy - whisky or liquor that is not watered down--also people who are genuine and can be counted on.
31. ritzy - elegant
32. scram - leave in a hurry
33. speakeasy - illegal drinking spot
34. spiffy - fashionable
35. splifficated - drunk
36. swell - marvellous
37. whoopee - a wild time

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