Have some vocabulary words to understand what they're talking about!Actor: Show-off
Agitate the Gravel: To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter: A child
Anti-frantic: Poised, calm
Ape: Used with go – to explode or be really mad
Apple butter: Smooth talk or flatery
Are you writing a book?: You're asking too many questions
Baby: Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Back seat bingo: Necking in a car
Bad news: Depressing person
Bake biscuits: To make records
Ballad: A love letter
Bash: A party
Bash ears: talking too much
Beat feet: Depart quickly
Beatnik: a member of the beat culture
Bent eight: A V-8 engine (hot rodders)
Big Daddy: An older person
Big tickle: Really funny
Binoculars: Glasses
Bird Dog: Someone who tries to steal your girl
Bit: An act
Blast: A good time
Blow off: To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed: Shortened
Boss: Great
Bread: Money
Bug: "You bug me" – to bother
Burn rubber: To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodder)
Candy ass: Wimp or easily scared
Cast an eyeball: To look
Cat: A hip person (Beats)
Chariot: Car (Beats)
Chili: A good deal
Cherry: Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated: Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled: Married
Classy chassis: Great body
Cloud 9: Really happy
Clutched: Rejected
Clyde: Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin': Doing it well
Cookie: a person, "man that cat is one cool cookie"
Cool: Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it: Relax, settle down
Come on snake, let's rattle: ask a girl to dance or a guy to fight
Cowabunga: expression from 50s tv show "Howdy Doody"
Cranked: Excited (Beats)
Crazy: "Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
Cream: Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruising: Driving around looking for action
Cruisin' for a bruisin': Looking for trouble
Cube: A normal person
Cut the gas: Be quiet!
Cut out: Leave
Daddy-O: Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T.: (Drop Dead Twice)
Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce: A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
Dibs: A claim – as in "got dibs" on that seat
Dig: To understand; to approve
Dolly: Cute girl
Don't have a cow: Don't get so excited
Don't flip your wig: Don't get so excited
Dough: Money
Drag: (hot-rodders) A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Duck Butt or D.A.Hairstyle: of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.
Due backs: Pack of cigarettes
Earthbound: Reliable
Earth pads: Shoes
Easy: A girl who "puts out"
Epistle: Letter
Eureka: an epiphany or sudden awareness
Fab: The best of something
Fake Out: A bad date
Fast: Someone who was sexually active
Fat City: A great thing or place; Happy
Fire Up: Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out: Fast as you can
Flat-top: Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick: A movie
Flip: To get very excited
Flip-top: A convertible car
Flip Top Box: A car with a retractable hardtop
Flip Your Lid: To go crazy, as in "He must've flipped his lid."
Floor it: Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Flatter bum: Good looking guy
Fracture: To amuse
Fream: Someone who doesn't fit in
Frat: Someone who is "in" and "popular"
Frosted: Angry
Germ: a pest or annoying person (thanks to Jim Hip for this)
Get Bent!: Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"
Get with it: Understand
Gig: Work, job (Beats)
Give me a bell: Call me on the phone (courtesy of Jim Hip)
Go ape: Get very excited
Go for pinks: A drag race where the stakes are the car's pink slip (hot-rodders)
Gone: He's a real gone cat: knowledgeable about hip stuff (courtesy of Fred Bluford)
Goof: Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy: Messy
Goose it: Accelerate the car fully (hot-rodders)
Greaser: A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. Yes, John Travolta in Grease.
That's all the vocab for now! More will be added soon!