What was the most popular slang term the year you were born?

[denbot]

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I have the quintessential baby boomer meme: Nuke.

[3catwoman3]

1. 1951 - Nerd.

I was hoping for something a little more interesting.

[ashling]

2. 1952 - Guy Fierri wasn't born yet

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1952: Divey (as in "Dive Bar&quot Diners, Drive Ins and Diveys

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. The two guys at the forefront.....

are obviously not sports fans!


I've looked over that pic, and dammit....I LOVE IT!


That is worth WAY more than a thousand words. What a cool photo.

A bar AND a package store. I wonder how many jurisdictions allowed that sort of thing back then. I'm betting not too many. Pennsylvania? New York? Almost every guy is wearing either a driving cap or a fedora.

That is very cool.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

3. 1947: Artsy

Quote: "Now, costume designer Edith Head was the real creative deal, but anyone who sought to imitate her eccentric approach to personal style would be considered pretentious or "artsy."

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Although down in the poor farming country where I was raised, that's quite a stretch.....

[TxDemChem]

4. Buff (1982)

That’s not bad at all

[backtoblue]

5. 1980- frizzy

it was an omen!

[crazycatlady]

16. Another 1980 baby here

[Aristus]

6. 1968: Bippy.

Sheesh, how embarrassing...

[Glorfindel]

12. You bet your bippy!

n/t

[csziggy]

14. Aren't bippys always sweet?

[cynatnite]

7. 1965-Grody

Never heard of that before.

[Still Blue in PDX]

8. It's grotty, a term of endearment for "grotesque." I first heard it in A Hard Day's Night.

Strange that I remember that type of thing when the short-term memory is shot all to hell!

lol

[Zorro]

13. "Grotty" is British slang

Not used much in the USA.

"Groady" is US slang, but don't really hear it much these days.

[Grammy23]

15. I remember referring to things as being groady when I was in high school. 1963-66

Later that morphed into gross. But both terms were used to describe something nasty or unsightly.

[Glorfindel]

11. Really? Never heard "grody to the max"?

Or in the "Valley Girl" song, "Oh, my God, your toenails are so GRODY!"

[Glorfindel]

9. 1945: Doh!

I had no idea. I have never heard anyone (other than Homer Simpson) use that term. I would have bet that it was "SNAFU."

[benld74]

17. 1956 - Nit-Picker