Jazz Age Glossary
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- flat tire
- a dull, boring person
- hep
- wise
- frame
- to cause a person's arrest by giving false evidence
- high-hat
- to snub
- gam
- a girl's leg
- hooch
- bootleg liquor
- gatecrasher
- a person who attends a party without an invitation, or a show w/o paying admission
- hoofer
- a chorus girl
- giggle water
- an alcoholic drink
- horsefeathers
- nonsense
- gold digger
- a woman who uses feminine charm to extract money from a many
- hotsy-totsy
- pleasing
- goofy
- silly
- jake
- okay
- hard-boiled
- tough, w/o sentiment
- jalopy
- an old car
- heebie-jeebies
- the jitters
- keen
- attractive, appealing
- kiddo
- a familiar form of address
- pushover
- a person or thing easily overcome
- kisser
- the mouth
- ritzy
- elegant
- line
- insincere flattery
- scram
- to leave hurriedly
- lounge lizard
- a ladies' man
- sex appeal
- physical attractiveness to members of the opposite sex
- main drag
- the most important street in a town or city
- sheba
- a young woman with sex appeal
- neck
- to caress intimately
- sheik
- a young man w/ sex appeal
- ossified
- drunk
- smeller
- the nose
- pet
- to caress intimately
- speak-easy
- a saloon or bar selling bootleg whiskey
- pinch
- to arrest
- spiffy
- having an elegantly fashionable appearance
- spifflicated
- drunk
- struggle buggy
- a car (from its use as a place in which boys tried to seduce girls)
- stuck on
- having a crush on
- swanky
- ritzy
- swell
- marvelous
- torpedo
- a hired gunman
- upchuck
- to vomit
- whoopee
- boisterous, convivial fun
- lousy
- bad; contemptible