Slang Vocabulary from The Outsiders

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Cornell University
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WRIT 1420 | FWS: Research and Rhetoric
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2023
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slang terms used in the novel, The Outsiders Term Greaser Soc Loned it Dig Hood Bawl Lift Rumble Outfit Cooler Broad Savvy Fuzz Kicks Doll Looker Booze Boozed up Heater A weed Half crocked Rat race Rep Chips are down Like it or lump it Class Soused Snooker A woofin Reeling pickled Bluff Reformatory Break us Cancer stick JDs a gas bad bag deuce pad thongs Score Jumped Wise cracker Cuss Definition Wears grease in hair and lower class Short for social-upper class kids who have nice clothes and fancy cars Walked alone To like something Short for hoodlum-bad kid To cry To steal Large group fight Gang or group of people Jail Girl To understand or get it Police For fun Good looking guy Good looking girl Alcohol Drunk Gun A cigarette Mostly or sort of drunk Feels like you can't get to the top Reputation Things are not going your way Take things as they come your way- for bad or for good Social class Drunk Billiards-to play pool Kidding Really drunk Fake someone out place for badly behaved kids To break our spirit or drive Cigarette Juvenile delinquent A lot of fun Awesome To steal A 1932 Ford Someone's house Something you wear on your feet To know what's what- understands that way things are getting attacked by a group of people One who is obnoxiously self-assertive and arrogant: swear, or use foul language Corvair Savvy Let’s split Souped up increase the horsepower of an engine Slugged Hood Bull session Blade Rolled Lighting up A car manufactured by Chevy Knowledgeable, understands how things work Let’s leave quickly increase the horsepower of an engine punched a bum, a bad person, a kid from a bad neighborhood or gang an informal conversation a Knife having been busted by the police for a small incident Lighting a cigarette

Slang Vocabulary from The Outsiders

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