20 Slang Terms From the 1970s No One Uses Anymore

Best Life Online ^ | 8DEC17 | Bob Larkin

[muggs]

OMG, that’s funny.

I remember 13 and Mary Jane.

I can also remember when we needed a new screen for the pipe. We would usually steal one of them from an aerator.

[Hotlanta Mike]

“You wish” didn’t make the list? Nor “Hang Loose”? Or “Get down”?

[muggs]

I straightened my life.out also when I was 18 and got married.

Straight

[Fresh Wind]

Actually, it was 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBPWwxOKwQ

[dfwgator]

Remember when “Rap” meant to talk, or to try to pick up chicks?

“The song itself was just something that I wrote watching people in nightclubs, in all the bars that we were playing. You’d see these dudes go over and start rapping to chicks - in those days, we did call it ‘rappin’,’ and they were just basically picking chicks up and hitting on them. That’s how the song came about, just watching these guys and all their moves.

The Rapper - The Jaggerz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fYV3dJp-k4

[rockrr]

Never heard them either - I was guessing them to be a regional thing.

[muggs]

I say “ you wish” but not in the 70’s.

[muggs]

I think the “Independent Eye”. was a local underground newspaper. Does anyone remember it, just wondering if it was national or local. It was 25 or 50 cents. We usually didn’t have enough money to buy a copy. There was a water bed at the back of the headship so we would lounge on the bed and read it for free.

Does anyone remember FM converters?

[rockrr]

One of my first jobs was working in the automotive department at K-mart where we sold (among other cheap Japanese junk) 8-track players and FM converters.

[marajade]

I never liked Billy Joel either. I couldn’t stand his song Uptown Girl.

[mylife]

he still is mulatto, when did I become a crime?

[jmcenanly]

I had thought that "Sit on it!" was a faux 5 0's slang from the Happy DaysTV series, as one of Fonzi's catchphrases.

[EdnaMode]

Fun article. :D

[trisham]

I guess I wasn’t much for slang.

[Texas resident]

Jack Webb.

The movie, The D.I. came out in 1957. Black and white flick

[Army Air Corps]

I was born in the 1970s, and I still use most of the slang words/phrases mentioned in the article.

[Windflier]

When I go to the post I complain there is entirely too much estrogen in the place. Then I chat up the Ladies. :)

You old hound dog ;-)

[Deplorable American1776]

That was when movies were funny...if you said in a movie today:’I speak jive’ it would be racist..

[Deplorable American1776]

Hmmm... Now I know what happened to Maxine, Nancy, Chuckie...not sure why AOC is like that...maybe just stupidity...😀

[Deplorable American1776]

I loved that song...I still hum it...