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Shook-Up Generation (1961) 24: The Cobras dress like ‘real diddley bops’ – first class street fighters [...] Blood and Jimmy dress in what Brooklyn gangs regard as high fashion.at diddy-bop, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 24: The Cobras dress like ‘real diddley bops’ – first class street fighters [...] Blood and Jimmy dress in what Brooklyn gangs regard as high fashion. Shook-Up Generation (1961) 21: Kemo [...] one of the greatest bops in gang history.at bop, n.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 17: The Cobras are an active ‘bopping’ or street-fighting club. [Ibid.] 22: Heart as defined by the bopping clubs is not the exact equivalent of courage.at bopping club, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 22: The most notorious of all the bopping gangs of New York, the Chaplains.at bopping gang, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 31: They sometimes play ‘chicken’ – the suicidal game in which two drivers race their cars head-on at each other.at play chicken (v.) under chicken, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 29: The ‘circle jerk,’ or mass masturbation, is a common sex activity.at circle jerk, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 20: The street and commercial establishments fronting the boundary are no man’s land – safe enough during a ‘cool’.at cool, n.2
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 24: It is only when they ‘go down’ or embark on a rumble that the gang structure can be easily identified.at go down, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 171: DUKE To fight (with fists).at duke, v.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 45: If I’m a little fuzzy it’s because we were drinking all day.at fuzzy, adj.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 162: The profound effect which the spectacle of the grafting officer makes on the street boy.at grafting, adj.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 35: It had Mausers, a grease gun, ‘some kind of a machine gun’ and a sawn-off shotgun.at grease-gun (n.) under grease, n.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 29: When the director turns his back the youngsters move together again and grind away.at grind, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 29: The fish is a slow, quiet hip movement resembling a burlesque house grind.at grind, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 89: There are twenty thousand families, constituting less that 1 per cent of the population of the city, which are the source of 75 per cent of all delinquency. This is what an earlier social studies cliche would call a ‘hard core’.at hardcore, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 22: Heart, as the bop defines it, is audacity, devil-may-care disregard for self and consequences.at heart, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 46: And I’ve never hurt anyone. (In street language ‘hurt’ means to kill or seriously wound).at hurt, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 45: He himself never jitterbugged until he was thirteen or fourteen. Then he was drafted by the Cobra Juniors.at jitterbug, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 17: ‘Minding our turf’ is the main preoccupation of the Cobras.at mind, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 74: This is also an area of moonshine whisky, cheap synthetic liquor made from industrial alcohol in tenement back rooms.at moonshine, adj.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 151: Food is ‘pecks’.at peck, n.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 73: ‘Somebody put some sneezing powder under my nose,’ the girl told Father Hoodak. Sneezing powder is heroin.at sneezing powder, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 171: RANK To insult (Usually profanity concerning a boy’s mother).at rank, v.2
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 25: These youngsters seek to create the image of a ‘cool, cultured, ‘beat-the-rap’ type.at beat the rap (v.) under rap, n.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 172: SHAKEDOWN A police inspection to see if a boy is carrying weapons.at shakedown, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 22: When a cool has been on for some time gang leaders may order a ‘shin fight’ (sham battle) between the Little People and the Big People.at shin battle (n.) under shin, n.3
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 26: Oh, you figured you might have to shuffle, eh?at shuffle, v.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 33: Blood wanted to send two or three snakes (spies or intelligence agents) to check the location and strength of the Rovers.at snake, n.1
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 10: What did you expect from the sons-of-bitches?at sonofabitch, n.
Shook-Up Generation (1961) 37: White boys wear ‘stomping’ boots, heavy hobnails or Army shoes.at stomping, n.
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