The Most Popular Slang Term The Year You Were Born
What was the biggest slang term the year you were born? Or, the biggest slang term the year you graduated high school? It's fun looking back.
Good Housekeeping has compiled a list of the top slang terms for every year from 1926 through 2006. Knowing the biggest slang terms the year you were born is cool. But, you don't remember either way so it's more fun looking back at the biggest slang terms for other important dates.
Like the year you got married, the year you turned 21. Starting with the 1960's, here is the list of the most popular slang terms:
1960, "dullsville" . . . 1961, "bratty" . . . 1962, "drop-dead gorgeous" . . . 1963, "Mickey Mouse," which meant goofing off at work . . . 1964, "aw shucks" . . . 1965, "grody," which meant gross . . . 1966, "kegger" . . . 1967, "freak flag" . . . 1968, "bippy" . . . 1969, "out of sight."
1970, "dorky" . . . 1971, "deadheads" . . . 1972, "guilt trip" . . . 1973, "carbo," which is short for carbohydrate . . . 1974, "motorhead" . . . 1975, "detox" . . . 1976, "hardball" . . . 1977, "brewski" . . . 1978, "pig out" . . . 1979, "nostalgia-fest."
1980, "frizzy" . . . 1981, "chill pill" . . . 1982, "buff" . . . 1983, "beat box" . . . 1984, "that's major" . . . 1985, "radness" . . . 1986, "studmuffin" . . . 1987, "couch surfing" . . . 1988, "F-bomb" . . . 1989, "trash talk."
1990, "kewl," spelled K-E-W-L . . . 1991, "tighty whiteys" . . . 1992, "NOT," mostly because of "Wayne's World" . . . 1993, "da bomb" . . . 1994, "Benjamins" . . . 1995, "as if" . . . 1996, "whatever" . . . 1997, "jiggy" . . . 1998, "phat," spelled P-H-A-T . . . 1999, "bling."
2000, "whassup?" . . . 2001, "whale-tail," which is when your thong sticks out . . . 2002, "hella" . . . 2003, "peeps" . . . 2004, "muffin top" . . . 2005, "fo shizzle" and "fo sheezy" . . . and 2006, "sick." As in, "Dude, that shirt is so sick."
It was fun, right? You can get the full list with definitions at Goodhousekeeping.com.
[via: Good Housekeeping]