Urban Dictionary for the 70s and 80s

[Anonymous]

13:35 PP

How about self-grading quizzes in elementary school? Seems to have happened a lot in the 70s - the teacher would stand at the front of the class and read aloud the answer key and we marked up our work.

There were always 3 or 4 boys (never girls) who’d hiss, “yesssssss!” after each answer.

How bout kids saying, “in your face!” as a joking insult? Or yell, “ohhhh, facialllll!” Heard this a lot during 5th grade.

[Anonymous]

13:35 and only old hippies said “weed” and the cool kids said “pot.” Circa 1977-90s. No longer.

Lots of talk about “coolers” in 1984. I didn’t understand why my new boyfriend was so excited about bringing a few coolers along on one of our first dates. Truly thought he was packing up some small Igloo or Coleman containers perhaps to keep some perishables cool. Yes, really. Doyyyyy!

[Anonymous]

This may be school-specific, but: "college suck" for extra-curriculars you signed up for just to get into college. A concept close to the heart of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

“Grody to the max!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of blonde jokes. Calling someone a blonde was the height of insulting their intelligence.

And Polish. And dead babies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clueless movie was from 1995, so not in the 70s/80s.

We said "my bad" in elementary school in potomac md in 1988

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Grody to the max!”

Yes. This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Oh my God, you guys, I’m like so totally crushing on Shane! He asked me to *go* with him!

(I remember “having a boyfriend” in 6th grade in 1980 and explaining the perplexing term of “going with a boy” to my parents)


Guys and girls were “foxy” as in , Scott Baio is so foxy! I love his feathered back hair.

“Feathered back” hair! We all knew what this was!

I recall signing yearbooks as BFF (best friends forever) and LYLAS (love ya like a sister) in 1978. Of course I wrote LYLAS or Love in giant “bubble letters” and drew each letter to look like a balloon eleven with a # in a corner of the L to look like a reflection.Very trendy!

I remember bubble writing and LYLAS. My BFF was so good at it.

I remember "go" and my parents saying "Are you going steady?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Clueless movie was from 1995, so not in the 70s/80s.

We said "my bad" in elementary school in potomac md in 1988

and in NJ in the mid 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of blonde jokes. Calling someone a blonde was the height of insulting their intelligence.

And Polish. And dead babies.

And truly tasteless jokes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember the Valley Girl era, Gag me with a spoon!

Pitch me with a fork!

[Anonymous]

Hurl for barf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Killer” for great. “Stoked” for excited. “Word” for I agree. “I heard that” also for agree.

I live where there are a lot of surfers, so I still hear "gnarly" and "stoked." In fact, one surfer signs off by saying, "In stoke, Dana." Defo too cool for school!

[Anonymous]

I remember jocks just constantly saying everything was "cold" (for brutal, unfair, tough, unfair, whatever).

"Eat My Shorts" seemed to get said a fair amount, too, but in a joking way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hurl for barf

Technicolor yawn