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1930’s Slang Reference

I just thought I’d whip this up for any rp’ers who might find it useful 🙂

Abercrombie- a know it all

All wet– no good

Aces, snazzy, nobby, smooth, swell, keen– very good

Ameche, horn, blower– telephone

Babe, broad, dame, doll, frail, twist, muffin, kitten– names for women

Bean shooter, gat, rod, roscoe, heater, convincer– gun

Beat– broke

Bleed– to blackmail

Blow your wig– become very excited

Booze, hooch, giggle juice, mule– whiskey

Brodie– a mistake

Bulge– advantage

Bumping gums, booshwash– talking about nothing useful

Cabbage, lettuce, kale, folding green, long green, Suds, salad, dough, moolah, rhino– money

Cave– one’s home

Chisel– swindle or cheat

Clip joint– Night club or gambling joint where patrons get screwed

Crumb, fink– loser

Crust– to insult

Curve– a disappointment

Dig– think hard or understand

Doggy– well dressed but in a self concious way

Doss– sleep

Drilling, plugging, throwing lead, filling someone with daylight, giving someone lead poisoning– shooting at someone

Grifter– con man or woman

Make tracks, dangle– leave quickly

Packing heat, wearing iron– carrying a gun

Shake a leg– hurry up

Snipe– cigarette

Togged to the bricks– dressed up

Take a powder, blow, split, scram, drift– leave

Trip for biscuits– a pointless task

Twit– fool or idiot