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in Profile of Youth 233: Fellows [...] may be put in their place by a sharp-tongued girl saying [...] ‘Put an egg in your shoe and beat it’.at put an egg in your shoe and beat it! (excl.) under beat it, v.
in Profile of Youth 233: Fellows [...] may be put in their place by a sharp-tongued girl saying [...] ‘Put an egg in your shoe and beat it’. in Profile of Youth 49: Starting in low gear with a speed of fifty or more miles per hour is known as ‘getting rubber’.at burn rubber, v.
in Profile of Youth 109: Next day she ‘catted’ to one of her friends that ‘he’d better not think I’m going to take streetcars’.at cat, v.2
in Profile of Youth 50: Despite the cowboying and hot rods, no proof can be obtained that high-schoolers are more prone to accidents than drivers in any other age range.at cowboy, v.
in Profile of Youth 108: Sometimes the boys [...] follow a pretty girl down the street to call out after her, ‘There goes curves!’.at curve, n.
in Profile of Youth 235: Negro teen-agers on Chicago’s South Side show a flair for colorful language and imaginative clothes [...] Visored cord caps, especially in colors, are favorites with the fellows and often ‘deals’ (girls) in a hurry to ‘take the swoop’ (get home) wear hats to the day’s last class.at deal, n.2
in Profile of Youth 110: The fraternity brothers decide which five to take as pledges and which five to ‘ding out.’ A ‘ding’ is a statement by one fraternity member that he doesn’t want a particular boy in the fraternity.at ding, v.1
in Profile of Youth 110: A ‘ding’ is a statement by one fraternity member that he doesn’t want a particular boy in the fraternity.at ding, n.1
in Profile of Youth 232: If a girl looks ‘discomboomerated’ (tired) after a date, she may explain, ‘I was playing tiddly winks with manhole covers’.at discombobulated, adj.
in Profile of Youth 142: It’s silly to dog up a car with signs and coon tails.at put on (the) dog (v.) under dog, n.2
in Profile of Youth 236: A ‘dragged-out character’ is often asked increduously, ‘Are you real?’.at dragged (out), adj.
in Profile of Youth 73: He’s considered a fancy pants, a mother’s boy or maybe even worse.at fancy pants, n.
in Profile of Youth 68: She had ‘French kissed’ her boyfriend.at French kiss, v.
in Profile of Youth 228: Smooth tunes are ‘fine like wine’; Western songs are ‘ginger peachy’.at ginger peachy (adj.) under ginger, adj.
in Profile of Youth 120: A girl who wears an Angora sweater or fur coat to school is ‘strutting,’ or playing ‘glamor puss’.at glamour puss (n.) under glamour, adj.
in Profile of Youth 233: Even when fellows are out stag, a car is indispensable to ‘gumshoeing,’ the practice of driving to a favorite necking spot and beaming a flash or spotlight into parked cars.at gumshoe, v.
in Profile of Youth 235: A job is a ‘hang’.at hang, n.3
in Profile of Youth 232: ‘Hop on that!’ says a York, Pennsylvania, high-school boy when he sees a pretty ‘skob’.at hop on, v.
in Profile of Youth 233: Boy, is she hung!at hung, adj.
in Profile of Youth 233: A boy with a smooth date is ‘in there like a Teddy Bear’.at in there, adj.
in Profile of Youth 235: Music is a big item in the life of these Chicago teens [...] the crowd gathers to ‘jam the box’ (play the juke box).at jam the box (v.) under jam, v.3
in Profile of Youth 52: I guess if I cracked up the car and it was my fault, I’d get a big jawing.at jawing, n.
in Profile of Youth 49: Carburetors are ‘jugs’.at jug, n.1
in Profile of Youth 235: ‘You know, year [sic]’ is used for emphasis.at you know, phr.
in Profile of Youth 123: A teacher who dyes her hair may be referred to as ‘Miss Peroxide’.at Miss, n.
in Profile of Youth 123: He himself was called ‘Mr. Tightwad.’ [...] A teacher who dyes her hair may be referred to as ‘Miss Peroxide’.at Mr, n.
in Profile of Youth 233: If the lad is really crushed he’ll reply, ‘Hey, you gave me the needle!’.at give someone the needle (v.) under needle, n.
in Profile of Youth 233: A boy with a smooth date is ‘in there like a Teddy Bear’; but if his girl is a ‘schmoe,’ he considers himself ‘racked out’.at racked out, adj.
in Profile of Youth 233: The first person of a couple to see a car with one headlight out shouts, ‘Padiddle’.at padiddle, n.
in Profile of Youth 232: They may [...] head for the ‘passion pit’.at passion pit (n.) under passion, n.
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