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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We used to call people Indian giver all the time, like if you took gave something and took it back. Totally not cool today and why it's stayed in the 70s and 80s.
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This is a weird one. I know it was used to insult someone and associated in people’s minds with Indians (native Americans) being untrustworthy, but the phrase was originally about the “white man” or US government. As in a “white man” promises land/rights/etc to the Indians but doesn’t honor the agreement.

Don’t forget gypped which was another used a lot but started in an earlier time.

My parents would come down hard on me if I used these phrases. I didn’t know what they referred to, only that “everyone” used them as an insult: faggot or “that’s so gay.” It was more of a ‘70s thing, I think. My parents read me the riot act once when I was about 7. Once I knew what they meant I didn’t use them again. Some of my favorite family friends and relatives were openly gay in our home, but no one ever labeled them that. I didn’t know until then that sometimes they weren’t so open about it.

One that may have been more regional … “suede-ers”. It referred to kids who smoked pot. There used to be these fairly ubiquitous black suede soft/rubber soled shoes that were supposed the mark of pot smoking kids.

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