|
A
Airbags: (n) Lungs
alligator: (n) A Jitterbug
Alreet: (adv) Absolutely okay
Apron: (n) Counter-man or bartender
Aquarium: (n) Domicile
Armstrongs: (n) High register musical notes
B
Banter:(n) Pretty young girl
Barbecue: (n) Beautiful girl
Barkers: (n. pl.) Pair of shoes
Barrelhouse: (adj) Loud music or unrestrained
Benders: (n. pl.) Knees, elbows, arms
Benny: (n) An overcoat
Birdwood: (n) A cigarette
Blinkers: (n. pl.) Eyes
Blip: (n) Five cent coin
Bonfire: (n) A cigarette stub
Boogieman: (n) A jiving male
Booper: (n) Singer of popular songs
Bounce: (n) A jumpy rhythm
Brawtus: (n) Good measure
Break: (n) Pause in music
Bree: (n) Girl friend
Brighty: (adj) Very intelligent
Brush: (n) Mustache
B.T.O.: (n) Big time operator
Buffalo: (n) Five cents
Bug: (n) A problem
Bullets: (n) Beans
Bump: (v) To kill
Bushed : (adj) Exhausted
Butter: (n) Insincerity
Butterfly: (n) Pretty girl
Buzz: (v) To kiss
Buzzsaw: (n) Gossiper
C
Cabbage: (n) Money
Canary: (n) Girl vocalist
Cap: (v) To out do one's self
Cat: (n) Jive musicians
Cattle: (n. pl.) Girls
Cave: (n) House
Cello: (n) Basso singer
Chew: (v) To talk
Chick: (n) Young girl
Chime: (n) The time
Chimney: (n) Top hat
Chippie: (n) Glamour girl
Chirp: (n) Girl vocalist
Choker: (n) A tie or collar
Clambake: (n) Jive session
Clocker: (n) The heart
Cogs:(n. pl.) Sun glasses
Collar: (v) To catch on
College: (n) Jail
Collegiate: (v) To play extreme tempo
Colts: (n. pl.) Youths
Comer: (v) Person making the grade
Cooch: (n) Muscle dancer
Cooler: (n) Jail cell
Cop: (v) To get
Copasetic: See Kapasetic
Corn: (n) Dates, entertainment or money
Crash: (v) To attend without an invitation
Crate: (n) An old dilapidated vehicle
Crix: (n. pl.) Critics
Cubby: (n) Small room
Cubes: (n. pl.) Dice
Cuff: (adv) Free
Curtains: (n) The end
Curve: (n) To disappoint
Cut: (v) To stop operation
Cuter: (n) Twenty-five cent piece
D
Dance: (v) To die by hanging
Dead: (adj) Empty
Deece: (n) Dime
Deuce: (n) Two-dollar bill
Dicer: (n) Hat
Dig: (v) To think hard or understand
Digger: (n) Solid sender
Dog: (n) Mediocre song or proposition
Doghouse: (n) The bass violin
Dome: (n) Your head
Doss: (v) To sleep
Dotmaker: (n) Musical arranger
Dotty: (adj) Insane
Drape: (n) Suit
Dreambox: (n) Your head
Dreamers: (n. pl.) Bedsheets
Dribble: (v) To stutter or talk without coherence
Drink: (n) A body of water
Drip: (n) An undesirable person
Drumsticks: (n. pl.) Attractive legs
Drown: (adv) Through
Duchess: (n) The girl friend
Ducks: (n. pl.) Admission tickets
Dust: (v) To leave
E
Easy: (adj) Financially secure
Enamel: (n) Teeth or skin
Exodust: (v) To flee
Expense: (n) A baby
Eye: (n) Detective
F
Fake: (n) Musician who cannot read
Fall: (v) To be convicted
Fanny: (n) Rear end
Faust: (n) Blind date
Feelers: (n. pl.) Your fingers
Filly: (n) Young female
Fin: (n) Five (usually refers to money)
Finagle: (v) To manipulate, advantageously
Flat: (n) An uninteresting person
Flickers: (n. pl.) Motion pictures
Flippers: (n. pl.) Your ears
Flopperoo: (n) A failure
Frame: (n) Your body
Frantic: (n) Excellent
Freeby: (adv) No charge
Fried: (adj) Drunk
Frogskin: (n) $1 bill
Front: (n) Your appearance
Fruit: (v) To run around
Fry: (v) To mechanically straighten kinky hair
G
Gage: (n) Intoxicating liquor
Gammin: (v) To strut
Gams: (n. pl.) Legs
Gander: (v) To examine
Gasper: (n) Cigarette
Gate: (n) Youth
Gatemouth: (n) A gossip
Gater: (n) Addict of swing
Gazer: (n) Good-looking widow
G.B.: (inter) Good-bye
Gims: (n. pl.) Eyes
Glapad: (n) Night club
Glims: (n. pl.) Lights
Goat: (n) New club member
Goola: (n) A piano
Grabbers: (n. pl.) Your hands
Graduate: (v) To end one's prison term
Grandstand: (v) To show off
Grapevine: (n) Gossip
Grass: (n) Crew hair cut
Gravel: (n) Gossip
Gravy: (n) Excess
Grease: (n) Butter
Groan: (n) Bass viol.
Groaner: (n) Sentimental singer of songs
Groovey: (adj) Superlative
Groundpads: (n. pl.) Feet
Growl: (v) To play the trumpet
Gutbox: (n) A piano
Gutbucket: (n) Lowdown blues or joint
H
Hack: (v) To write inferior material
Hambone: (n) A trombone
Handcuffed: (adj) Married
Handle: (n) Large proboscis
Happify: (v) To make happy
Hard: (n) One with excellent taste
Hardware: (n) Flashy jewelry
Headache: (n) The wife
Headlights: (n) Substantial diamonds
Heater: (n) A big cigar
Heeled: (adj) Of substantial means
Hep: (n) One who has been smartened up
Herd: (n) Pack of Camel cigarettes
Hideaways: (n. pl.) Your pockets
Hides: (n. pl.) The drums
Highjack: (v) To steal another man's girl
Hightail: (v) To leave hurriedly
Hinges: (n. pl.) Your elbows
Hocks: (n. pl.) The feet
Homey: (n) Someone from your home town
Hood: (n) A thief
Hooks: (n. pl.) Your fingers
Hoop: (n) A ring
Hoopla: (n) A confidence game
Hop: (n) A big dance
Horn: (n) The nose
Hot: (adj) Playing music in a torrid manner
Howler: (n) Torch singer
Humdinger: (adj) One with class or ability
Hummer: (n) One who gets there
Hunk: (n) Stalwart male
Husk: (v) To undress
Hustler: (n) Would-be playboy or woman
Hype: (v) To try a trick
I
Iceberg: (n) Unemotional woman
Icky: (adj) Conservative person
Idiot: (n) Educated moron
In : (n) An introduction
Index: (n) The face
Insider: (n) A pocket
Ivories: (n. pl.) Dice or piano keys
J
Jackson: (n) Form of salutation
Jam: (v) To improvise in jazz band
Jeff: (n) A boring individual
Jelly: (adv) On the cuff
Jillion: (n) A lot of people or money
Jit: (n) Five cents
Jitterbug: (n) Swing music fan
Jitterdoll: (n) Female jitterbug
Jive: (n) Form of American slang
Jiver: (n) Hepcat who knows the ropes
Jug: (n) Bottle of liquor
Juice: (n) Intoxicating beverage
Jump: (n) Jiving to swing music
K
Kicks: (n. pl.) Pair of shoes
Kill: (v) To fascinate
Killer: (n) Hair grease
Knob: (n) A homely face
Knock: (v) To let one have it
Kong: (n) Inferior drink
Kopasetic: (adj) Everything's fine
L
Lamb: (n) A pushover
Lamp: (v) To take a good look
Lamps: (n. pl.) Your eyes
Latch: (v) To take or hold
Leaky: (n) One who talks too much
Legit: (n) The real thing
Lemon: (n) An inferior performance or thing
Lick: (n) A rhythm change in swing music
Lift: (v) To plagiarize or thrill
Lincoln: (n) Five-dollar bill
Line: (n) A system
Lugs: (n) Big ears
M
Mace: (n) A blackjack
Mad: (n) Very capable person
Maestro: (n) Orchestra leader
Make: (v) To win the affections of the opposite sex
Map: (n) Your face
Mellow: (adj) Superlative
Messy: (adv) Extraordinary
Meter: (n) Twenty-five cent piece
Mezz: (n) Perfection
Midway: (n) Large hall
Mikes: (n) Your ears
Mocky: (n) Silly laugh
Moist: (n) Ocean or lake
Moocher: (n) A sponger
Moola: (n) Money
Mop: (n) The finale
Moss: (n) You hair
Mouse: (n) A pocket
Mud: (n) Coffee or homely person
Murder: (v) To reach perfection
Mushroom: (n) Place where people spoon
N
Name: (n) Most popular band at the moment
Natch: (adj) Naturally
Needle: (n) Soft drink
Nod: (n) One night
Nodbox: (n) Bedroom
Noggin: (n) The head
Number: (n) A person
Nurse: (n) Stingy person
O
Oats: (n) Enthusiasm
Oil: (n) Form of flattery
Oiled: (adj) Drunk or intoxicated
Orchestration: (n) A topcoat or benny
P
Package: (n) A girl
Pad: (n) Bed, apartment or night club
Paddlers: (n) Your hands
Pail: (n) Your stomach
Pan: (v) To belittle
Pancakes: (n) Victrola records
Panic: (v) To thrill
Paws: (n) Your hands
Pecking: (n) Type of dance
Peckings: (n) Type of food
Pegs: (n) Your trousers
Percolate: (adv) Doing fine
Percolate: (v) To meander
Phiz: (n) Your face
Piccolo: (n) Juke box
Pickers: (n. pl.) Your fingers
Pidgeon: (n) Young pretty girl
Pies: (n. pl.) Your eyes
Pillars: (n) Your legs
Pinchers: (n. pl.) Tight pair of shoes
Pistols: (n. pl.) Trousers of a zoot suit
Plates: (n. pl.) Your feet
Platter: (n) A musical record
Platters: (n. pl.) Big feet
Play: (n) A situation
Plug: (v) To advertise
Plunger: (n) The bathtub
Plungeroo: (n) Pin-ball addict
Poke: (n) Large sum of money or place where it is kept
Pooped: (adv) Exhuasted
Portrait: (n) Your face
Pretzel: (n) French horn
Pulleys: (n) Pair of suspenders
Pump: (n) The heart
Puss: (n) Your face
R
Rag: (v) To play in syncopation
Rank: (v) To criticize
Razzberry: (n) Ridicule
Razzmatazz: (n) Super-ridicule
Ready: (adv) Acting in perfect rhythm
Riff: (n) Hot musical expression
Righteous: (adj) Perfect
Roundheel: (n) A pushover
Ruff: (n) A quarter
Rugcutter: (n) Jive dancer
Rugged: (n) Wonderful
S
Sails: (n. pl.) Ears
Salty: (adj) Rough
Sawbuck: (n) $10 bill
Schmaltz: (n) Sweet and low or sentimental
Schnozz: (n) The nose
Scratch: (n) Folding money
Scuffler: (n) Dancer or hard worker
Send: (v) To arouse the emotions
Sharp: (adj) One of smart appearance
Sheet: (n) Newspaper
Shin: (n) Razor
Shiv: (n) A sharp weapon, usually a knife
Shutters: (n) Your eye-lids
Sing: (v) To confess
Skate: (v) To get away with something
Smacker: (n) One dollar
Smackeroo: (n) A kiss
Snags: (n) Tonsils
Snapper: (n) A match
Snazzy: (adj) Stylish
Sneezer: (n) Your nose
Sniffer: (n) Handkerchief
Snifter: (n) Drunkard or coke-eater
Snipe: (n) Cigarette stub
Snitcher: (n) Tattletale newspaper columnist
Snort: (n) Drink of liquor
Snuffer: (n) Your nose
Solid: (adj) Peak of perfection
Spark: (n) Rare diamond
Spiel: (n) A speech
Splash: (v) To swim
Split: (v) To confess
Spotters: (n) Your eyes
Spouting: (v) To talk verbosely
Square: (n) A hard-working unromantic person
Squat: (v) To take a seat
Squatpad: (n) Padded stool
Squatter: (n) A chair
Squawkies: (n. pl.) Sound motion pictures
Squeezer: (n) A tight belt
Stash: (v) To stand up or pile
Static: (adj) Quarreling
Stealers: (n) Your fingers
Stems: (n) Legs
Stewie: (n) Drunkard
Stilts: (n) Your legs
S.T.O.: (n) Small time operator
Stompers: (n. pl.) Pair of shoes
Stool: (n) A squealer
Storkey: (adj) Tall and scrawny
Straps: (n) Pair of suspenders
Stretch: (n) A city block or term in jail
Stretcher: (n) Your neck
Striders: (n) Pair of trousers
Striding: (n) Playing number of piano bass keys
Stroll: (n) Street or road
Struggle: (v) To dance
Stud: (n) The male species
Stumble: (v) To get into a bad predicament
Stumps: (n) Your legs
Suds: (n. pl.) Beaucoup money
Swellelegant: (adj) Wonderful
T
Tailormade: (n) A cigarette
Tears: (n) Pearl necklace
Ten: (n) The toes
Thinkbox: (n) Your brain
Thinkpad: (n) Your head
Threads: (n) Your wardrobe
Ticker: (n) Your heart
Tickeration: (n) Strutting exhibition
Timbers: (n. pl.) Toothpicks
Tin: (n) Small exchange
Tinkler: (n) The doorbell
Tool: (v) To travel leisurely
Toothpick: (n) Sharp knife
Topper: (n) High hat
Torch: (n) Unrequited love
Track: (n) Hall for dancing
Treaders: (n. pl.) Boots
Trill: (v) To leave
Trout: (n) Girl
Truck: (v) To go or dance
Trucking: (n) The name of a dance
Tub: (n) Drum
Tumble: (v) To dance
Twosome: (n) Lovers
U
Unleash: (v) To hand
Uprights: (n) The legs
Upstairs: (n) Blue sky
V
V: (n) Five-year sentence
Vaseline: (n) Butter
Vine: (n) Suit of clothing
Vocalovely: (n) Pretty girl singer
W
Waders: (n. pl.) Pair of shoes
Washer: (n) Cafe
Weeper: (n) Beggar or mourner
Welder: (adj) Married
Wham: (inter) Great
Whip: (v) To tell
Wigglers: (n. pl.) Fingers
Windbags: (n. pl.) The lungs
Wolf: (n) A male who stalks women
Wolverine: (n) A female who stalks men
Woodchopper: (n) Xylophonist
Woodpile: (n) Xylophone
Works: (n) Everything
Y
Yak: (n) Hearty laugh
Yam: (v) To dine
Yank: (n) A dentist
Yard: (n) $100 bill
Z
Zombie: (n) Slow-witted person
Zowie: (inter) Exclamation of approval
|
Phrases
A
Able grable - Well-built girl
Accenting the off beat - Stressing the 2nd & 4th beats
Action on traction - Prepared to proceed
Advance the spark - Get ready
Ain't comin' on that tab - Don't count on me
Alan laddy - Male sex appeal
All hung up - Completely bewildered
Alley cat - Street corner loafer
Angel cake - Perfect femininity
Axle grease - Butter
B
Baby kisser - Politician
Balloon room - Smoke room
Ball chain - The wife
Battery acid - Coffee
Beat it out - Play it hot
Beat my own skin - Applauding
Beat the rocks - Pounding the pavement
Beatin' boogie – Playing jive rhythm
Beatin' chops – Talking too much
Beatin' the skins – Striking the drums
Beau boy – The boy friend
Beggin' for chop – Pleading for rhythm
Big bruiser – Handsome male
Big talk – Boasting
Big time operator – Boy friend
Blot out – Eliminate
Blow in – Spending freely
Blow your top – To grow excited
Blow your wig – Uncontrollably excited
Bluff cuffs with the solid sender – A Zoot suit
B.O. - Offensive body odor
Bobby socks – Teen-agers (female)
Body snatcher – A male wolf
Boiled owl – Intoxicated person
Boiler plate – Formal attire
Bone orchard – Sad music hall
Booby trap – Girl with marriage intentions
Boogie woogie – Barrel house rhythm (8 to the bar)
Boot me – Introduce me
Boots on – Prepared
Bottle neck - Petting in the park
Boulevard cowboy - Wild driver
Boy beautiful - Glib talker
Boy scout - An immature adult
Brace o' broads - Shoulders
Brace o' hookers - Arms
Bread basket - Stomach
Break it up - Stop the performance
Bronx cheer - Disapproving lip noise
Brother act - False friend
Brush msuh - Mustache
Bubble dancing - Dishwashing
Buffalo heads - Nickels
Builder upper - Publicity man
Bull fiddle - The bass viol.
Bull horn - The tuba
Bull pen - Crowded sleeping quarters (usually in a jail)
Bull session - A male gabfest
Bull's wool - Stolen goods
Bumpin' your gums - Talking too much
Bunch of fives - Your fists
Bundle from heaven - Baby or laundry
Bust your conk - Do the best you can
Bust loose - Eliminating inhibitions
Button up your lip - Don't talk
Buzz saw - Gossiper
C
Call off all bets - To die
Cart wheel - Silver dollar
Cash in checks - Dying
Castor oiler - Doctor
Cat eyes - Three on a pair of dice
Cat's meow - Singing male
Cat's not in - Out of uniform
Cat that cracks the whip - A playboy
Cattle train - A large automobile
C note - $100 bill
Chair warmer - Lazy musician
Chamber of commerce - Men's room
Chicks that play hard - Party girls
Chicken a la king - Your number one girl
Chimer bell - Your heart
Chit chatter - Idle chatter
Cinderella tale - A success story
Clip artist - Confidence man
Clip joint - Night club that overcharges
Coffee bags - Trouser pockets
Coffin Nails - Cigarettes
Coffin varnish - Bad liquor
Coke frame - Attractive body build
Cold cut - Uninteresting person
Cold meat - Corpse
Cold meat party - Funeral
Collar a broom - Leave in haste
Come again - Repeat
Come to school - To agree with
Cookie pusher - Counter man
Cooking on the front burner - Tops
Cooking with gas - Doing very well
Cop a squat - To sit down
Copper nose - Chronic drinker
Corn fed - Amateur musician
Cough up - To pay on demand
Cow express - Shoes
Crab your act - Interfere with your presentation
Creakin' gates - Mediocre orchestra
Creep joint - Poorly furnished room
Crumb hall - Dining room
Cuddle bunny - Lovable gal
Cut out - Getting away early
Cute package - Cute gal
D
Dance hall - Execution chamber
Dating duet - Always together
Dead pan - Fixed expression
Dead pigeon - Uninteresting companion
Dead president - Paper money
Deep six - The grave
Deep sugar - Honeyed words
Desk piano - Typewriter
Deuce of haircuts - Two weeks
Deuce of peepers - The eyes
Deuce of squares - Two pseudo Hepcats
Deuce of ticks - Two minutes
Dig it - To understand
Diggin' the discs - Dancing to hot records
Dime note - Ten-dollar bill
Disc jockey - Victrola record (program) player
Dish delish - Pretty gal
Do a bunk - Run away
Do a garbo - Remain aloof
Dog face - Homely person
Don Ameche - Telephone
Double in brass - Playing two characters in a show
Double sawbuck - Twenty dollars or twenty-year jail sentence
Douse the glim - Put out the light
Drag a date - Taking your sweetheart to a dance
Drag a weed - To puff a cigarette
Drape shape - Enviable build
Dried barker - Fur-piece
Dry goods - Clothing
Dust bin - The grave
E
Eager beaver - Willing fellow
Early black - Early evening
Early bright - Early morning
Eighty eight - Piano
Embalming fluid - Bad liquor
Eye opener - Beautiful girl
F
Face lace - Whiskers
Fag hag - Girl chain smoker
False alarm - Divorced man or woman
Few tickers - A few moments
Final trill - Dying
Fine dinner - Very pretty girl
Fine fryer - Young pretty girl
Fire eater - Quarrelsome person
Fire extinguisher - Chaperone
First 30 - Month of January
Fish hooks - Your fingers
Five spot - $5 bill
Flag spot - Bus stop
Flip the grip - Shake hands
Fluff fluff - A cute girl
Fly chick - A hep chick
Fly swatter - A brush
Flyer with a roof higher - Western hat
Fourth of July - Gun fight
Free lunch - Easy going
Freeze on to - To take possession of
Fresh water - Good looking
Frisking the whiskers - Tuning up for a swing session
Frolic pad - High class cafe
Front yard - A stick pin
G
Gabble gather - A hen party
Gam case - Hosiery
Gangbuster in a two way stretch - Mother-in-law
Gas house - Saloon or tavern
Gas pipe - Trombone
Get in there - To start
Get outside of - Eating or drinking
Give it a whirl - Trying something for the first time
Glad eye - Flirting
Go up salt river - To die
Gotta glim for a bim - An eye
Go up - Top floor apartment
Got your boots on - Hep to the jive
Gone gosling - Hopeless person
Good deal - Wholesome girl
Good joe - Popular guy
Goon bait - Jerky female
Grab the ozone - Please go
Grape cat - Wine drinker
Graveyard stew - Milk toast
Grease the guggle - To eat
Grease the skids - Getting rid of someone
Great shakes - Important
Green stuff - Folding money
Groan box - Bass fiddle
Gruesome twosome - Engaged couple
Grunt horn - Tuba
Guy goony - Man crazy
Guzzlin' foam - Drinkin' beer
H
Hag bag - A chick with no personality
Half a stretch - Half a block away
Hard hitting - Smart looking
Hard playing chick - Loose girl
Hard skull fry - A new haircut
Harlem toothpick - Keen knife
Having a ball - Having a hectic time
Head chick - Your sweetheart
Heated hell - The worst
Heavy heart - The boy frined
Heavy heat stretch - Hot summer
Heavy lard - Sad story
Hepcat - One who knows what it's all about
Hep gee - One in the know
Hep to - Well informed
Hi de ho - Exclamation of joy
Hide beater - The drummer
High powered - Good looking
High stepper - Man who lives above his means
Hip chick - Smart female
Hi, sugar, are you rationed? - Are you escorted?
Hit it off - Agreeing
Honey chile - An alreet gal
Hoopla spreader - Promoter
Horse around - To fool around
Horse opera - Western motion pictures
Hot licks - Fast musical tempo
Hot piano - Jive piano playing
Hotsy totsy - Under control
House without chairs - Dance hall
I
Ice cold kate - Unresponsive girl
Ice palace - Smart jewelry store
Icky vicki - Stupid gal
Idea pot - The head
In and outer - Door
In hock - Being in prison
In the doghouse - Out of favor
In the groove - Perfect timing
In there - Superlative performance
Iron horn - Cornet
J
Jail bait - Young girl
Jam session - Dance, improvised music
Jenny lind - Girl singer
Jerk of all trades - Inconsequential person
Jesse james killer - Heavy hair pomade
Jibber jabber - Senseless talk
Jingle jangle - Silver coins
Jive cutter - Modern dancer
Jive floor - Where the hepcats hop
Jive jargon - Language of the hepcats
Joe blow - Musician who swings
Joint's jumping - Everybody's having fun
Jumped in port - Just arrived
Jumpin Jack - Boy dancer
Jumpin Jill - Girl dancer
Jumping with joy juice - Intoxicated
Junior jerk - Stupid teen-ager
K
Khaki wacky - Girl who goes for men in uniform
Kick in - Pay up
Kill me - Thrill me
Kill joy - Policemen
Killer diller - Thrilling
King size - Pleasantly big
Kink in the konk - Headache
Kiss off - To die
Kitchen scrap - Hash
Knock a nod - To doze off
Knock me a kiss - Won't you give me a kiss?
Knockin the keys - Playing hot piano
L
Lap happy - Girl who likes the boys
Last out - Dying
Last shout - Latest fashion
Last waltz - Last walk to the death chamber
Lay down the cow - Put your shoes away
Laughing soup - Liquor
Lay iron - Tap dance
Lead pipe - Unpopular
Lead sheet - An overcoat
Left raise - Your left side
Let's mop - Let's dance
Let's squirm worm - Let's dance honey
Licking the chops - Jivecats warming up
Licorice stick - Clarinet
Lightening and thunder - Whiskey and soda
Lily whites - Clean bedsheets
Line the flute - Time to eat
Lip splitter - Musician who plays a wind instrument
Little tub - Small drum
Lob around - Hang around
Long duster - Your favorite cigarette
Long hair - Symphony musician
Long white roll - Ready-made cigarette
Long with links - An elaborate key chain
Loose as a goose - Tightwad
Love letter - Criticism or a stone
Low down - Sweet melancholy music
Low quarters - Sport shoes
Luscious mushin' - Delightful love making
Lush head - Chronic drinker
Lush stash - Cheap cafe
M
Main drag - Main street
Main kick - A stage
Main queen - Your favorite girl friend
Make tracks - Hurry home
Male robbery - To steal another's sweetheart
Man on the hitch - Your husband
Man size - Difficult
Marble town - A graveyard
Mash me a fin - Lone me five
Meat hocks - The hands
Mellow fellow - A satisfactory person
Mellow mouse - Attractive female
Mellow roof - Your head
Meter in my mouse - Quarter in my pocket
Middle aisled - Married
Midnight snack - Small pretty girl
Mister speaker - Gun
Mitt flopper - Hand shaker
Mitt pounding - Applauding
Mittens off - Unrestrained
Moo juice - Milk
Mow the lawn - Combing the hair
Mud opera - Carnival
Mumps with the bumps - Sweater girl
Muscle bound - Big stupid person
Mystery food - Hash
N
Neatly stacked - Perfect figure
Neck happy - Cooperative at romancing
Neighbo pops - That's out brother
New double six - New Years
Nickle nurser - Tightwad
Nix out - To erase
No go - Not interested
Nose paint - Liquor
Number one on your hep parade - Favorite girl friend
O
Off beat cymbal - Sock cymbal
Offtime jive - Talking out of turn
Office piano - Typewriter
Old saw - Former beau
Old smokey - Electric chair
On the ball - Up to the minute
On the beach - Being unemployed
On the beam - Hitting on high
On the buttered side - A hep chick
On the hoof - An easy pick-up
Out of this world - Superlative
P
Pair of pipes - The singing voice
Paper doll - Leave hurriedly
Paper men - Drummers who read music
Peeling a green banana - Romancing a young girl
Playing high hat - Tapping cymbals with the foot pedals
Plays a hot piano - Jive piano player
Pots and pans - Drums
Potato masher - Drumstick
Pot lids - The cymbals
Prayer dukes - The knees
Pretzel bender - French horn player
Puddle hopper - Old jalopy
Pussy with a fluid drive - Skunk
Putty blower - Trombone
R
Racket jacket - Zoot suit
Rafters are rockin' - Unrestrained exuberance
Rag out - Dressed in latest fashion
Rah rah drapes - Collegiate clothing
Rat hole - Trousers pocket
Red eye - Catsup
Red ink - Italian wine
Ride tune - Rhythm song
Riffs and rills - Great expectations
Righteous riff - Interesting conversation
Rink rat - Skating rink enthusiast
Rock candy - Expensive diamonds
Rock crusher - Accordion
Rock me - Get me in the mood
Rubber heel - A disagreeable person
Rug cutter - An excellent dancer
S
Sad Sal - Old fashioned
Sadder than John J. Anthony - Sick
Sam got you - Joining the Army or Navy
Scratch crib - Cheap lodging
Second front - Girdle
Send me - Bring me ecstasy
Singing school - Place where the third degree is administered
Sizzling platter - Hot music record
Skin beater - A drummer
Slick chick - Everything desirable
Slip horn - Trombone
Slip stick - Clarinet
Snazzy chassis - Well built
Snootie cutie - Hard-to-get girl
Sock frock - Your best outfit
Soft top - A bar stool
Solid sender - Great performer
Solid square - An alright hick
Spin a wren - Dancing with a woman
Spring the traps - Playing the drums and gadgets
Squeak stick - Clarinet
Star dusting - In love
Steam fiddle - Calliope
Stem gazer - Admirer of female limbs
Stone crusher - A stomp
Strictly barbecued - Fashion-plate
Strictly military - Drummer using lot of unnecessary strokes
Strictly solid - An alreet fellow
Strictly stock - An ordinary girl
Sugar puss - Sweet face
Super drawers - Woolen underwear
Super duper - Something extra special
Swinging gate - Male dancer
Swing music - An improvised musical session
Swoon set - Bobby sox worshippers
T
Table topping - Making the night club rounds
Take a gander - Take a look
Take off - Musical solo
Tea fight - A party
Tear jerker - Song with pathos
Technicolor gal - Girl with too much make-up
The horn - The famous trumpeter
The voice - The famous crooner
They're a thing - Sweethearts
Togged to the bricks - Dressed in the latest fashion
Tonsil tickler - Singer
Torch song - Burning love ballad
Totem pole - Tall person
Town crier - Gossip spreader
Tricky icky - Smart aleck
Trig the wig - Think hard
Trim and slim - A neat little package
Twenty twenty - Excellent
Twister to the slammer - The key for the door
U
Uncanny Fanny - Smart girl
Unravel the gravel - Dish out gossip
Up for grabs - Easy to make gal
V
Vacuum cleaner - Your lungs
Violin Cases - Large shoes
W
Walk back - Rear apartment
Walking the plank - Falling in love
War paint - Cosmetics
Water works - Profuse tears
We the people - A wise guy
What's cookin? - What's doing
Wheel chair - A car
Whip it to me - Tell it to me
Whipped up - Worn out
Whips and jingle - Downcast
Whistle bait - Gal on the make
White one - Your shirt
Wind pumps - Your lungs
Woo woo - Exclamation of approval
Wrong riff - Speaking out of turn
Y
Yeah, man - Agreeable
Y.M.C.A. - To deceive
You melt me Jackson - I'm thrilled
Young bantam - Young girl
Z
Zoot suit - Hepcat's clothes
|
