reggae- popular music originating in the West Indies; repetitive bass riffs and regular chords played on the off beat by a guitar skiffle- a style of popular music in the 1950s; based on American folk music and played on guitars and improvised percussion instruments ...
Though hippies defined the latter half of the '60s, its use as slang predates the decade. A permutation of hipster, the hippie is described as "usually exotically dressed" and "given to the use of hallucinogenic drugs." "Far out" also enters the lexicon here, as jazz lingo. ...
30+ Weird Slang Terms From The 20s That Prove Young People Have Always Been Dumb Vote Photo: Scandal/ABC 2000s: Emily, Madison, Emma, Olivia, And Hannah A new decade and another almost entirely new set of names. The only holdover from the 1990s is Emily, which was i...
It's technically a Jamaican cooking pot. And a kouchie? That's a Jamaican slang word for a pot that's typically used to hold weed. The band sings, "Pass the dutchie on the left hand side." One would pass a joint, so even though the boys changed the words, the song is st...
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Little known fact: "snozberry" is actually slang for the tip of a man's,ahem, member. Little Mermaid Amazon Remember Sebastian singing, "Darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me"? Alright, maybe we have a dirty mind, but it'ssoobvious. ...
Many people of my age look back with the rosy glow of nostalgia at some of the TV programmes, films and literature created for children in the 60s and 70s. Most in my opinion were crap. The problem with children’s TV during these decades particularly was that it was created by middle-...
It's a building that's been standing for nearly 60 years in Minnesota, but it's now being reduced to a pile of rubble.The old saying is that the only constant in life is change, and that's sure the case for this once-popular 59-year-old building here in the Land of 10,000 ...
The use of the term okama derives from the slang usage of the term to refer to the buttocks and thereby to anal sex which is considered to be the definitive sexual act engaged in by homosexual men. However, use of this term is extremely loose and it can be used to describe a man ...
A couple projects from other studios in the same vein: Jodie Silsby’s map of Portsmouth in “slang, renaming each street in the Pompey dialect.” Also, Ork’s type posters of popular U.S. cities at an affordable price. Flickr: Japanese Garden Maple (in Portland). Via 37s. New York ...