The A to Z English Podcast Vocabulary Spotlight | 1960s and 70s Slang
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Jack tests Xochitl's knowledge of 1960s and 70s slang.
Transcript:
00:00:01
Jack
Welcome to the A to Z English podcast. My name is Jack, and today I'm here with my co-host social. And this is a vocabulary builder episode and I don't know social how useful this vocabulary is going to be for our students. But it's fun and I have some 1960s and 1970s.
00:00:21
Jack
Slang and I think.
00:00:25
Jack
The closer we get to, you know, the the 2000s, the, the more you're going to know because you know, like giggle water. That was a pretty weird one last week, the 40s and 50s.
00:00:40
Jack
I just want to say I just.
00:00:41
Jack
Love seeing giggle water? I don't know why it's such.
00:00:43
Jack
A hard word, yeah.
00:00:46
Jack
So here's some 60 slang uh #1 groovy.
00:00:52
Jack
What does groovy mean?
00:00:54
Xochitl
It just means cool. Like, wow, that's Ruby, man. It's like, that's cool. That's neat. That's like.
00:01:01
Xochitl
Chill, you know, that's cool.
00:01:03
Jack
Yep, exactly. Groovy. Cool. Awesome. How about rad?
00:01:11
Xochitl
Uh, I mean the same thing. Like awesome, those are bad waves. It's like those are some amazing waves. Yeah. It's basically the same as groovy.
00:01:21
Jack
Ah, your new car is groovy. Your new car is.
00:01:24
Jack
Rad. Like. That's it. Yeah.
00:01:28
Jack
OK.
00:01:28
Xochitl
Or it's like.
00:01:28
Xochitl
Ohh Brian is a rad dude man. Yeah, he is groovy. Yeah, like.
00:01:34
Jack
So so many of.
00:01:35
Jack
These are the same, but uh.
00:01:38
Jack
What is a hippie?
00:01:40
Xochitl
A hippie is a person that.
00:01:44
Xochitl
It was kind of a movement in the 60s and 70s, I guess and.
00:01:51
Xochitl
Anyone listening to that word will have a visual like the little bandana headband thing, the grounds John Lennon sunglasses or glasses. Yeah, the kind of.
00:02:02
Jack
Bell bottom pants.
00:02:04
Xochitl
Bell bottom pants and open vest or whatever.
00:02:08
Jack
Chest hair. Lots of chest hair.
00:02:10
Xochitl
Yeah, yeah, it was just kind of like, you know.
00:02:16
Xochitl
Peace, anti war, cultural movement of the 60s and 70s, so it's.
00:02:22
Xochitl
Kind of. Basically what?
00:02:23
Jack
Right. Or maybe we could say countercultural.
00:02:26
Xochitl
Yes, countercultural movement of the 60s and 70s and I guess it arose.
00:02:34
Xochitl
Also, in contrast to the Vietnam War.
00:02:40
Jack
Right. That was a big part of it was.
00:02:43
Jack
Some protesting the war, you know, anti war, love not love and peace. Love not war, that kind of stuff, yeah.
00:02:53
Jack
Make Make Love not war.
00:02:55
Jack
That's the. That's the expression, yeah.
00:02:57
Xochitl
That the hippie slogan.
00:02:59
Jack
Right.
00:03:01
Jack
Out of sight.
00:03:03
Xochitl
Out of sight.
00:03:07
Xochitl
Does that mean, like far out?
00:03:09
Jack
Yeah, it's same, it's.
00:03:10
Jack
Same as groovy out of sight.
00:03:12
Xochitl
Yeah, I guess it means super cool that one almost got me because I said to be like out.
00:03:16
Xochitl
Of sight. Out.
00:03:17
Xochitl
Of mind, which means like if you don't see it, you don't.
00:03:20
Xochitl
Think about it.
00:03:21
Xochitl
Or whatever and.
00:03:21
Xochitl
Then like that, can't be right out of sight.
00:03:23
Xochitl
Is far is like far.
00:03:24
Xochitl
Out, which is the same as Ruby.
00:03:26
Xochitl
Rad. Cool all that.
00:03:28
Jack
Groovy red cool out of sight. Yeah, yeah. Bummer.
00:03:32
Xochitl
Far out.
00:03:36
Xochitl
I we still use that, that's the banner.
00:03:38
발표자
I know.
00:03:39
Xochitl
It's like.
00:03:41
Xochitl
UM, the winter has been super mild here in Iowa. And then I was telling someone I was talking to someone and I was like, oh, it's been such a mild winter. And like, you know, it's the. So it's snow 10 inches later today. And I was like, that's a bummer. It just it sucks, basically. Oh, my God, that sucks. That's terrible. That's bad news. That's a.
00:04:00
Jack
Right. Disappointing or unfortunate situation. You know, a bummer, you know. Ohh John can't come to the party on Friday. Ohh, what a bummer.
00:04:12
Jack
That's a bummer.
00:04:14
Xochitl
Right.
00:04:15
Jack
Or if we hate John.
00:04:17
Jack
That's rad, but OK.
00:04:22
Jack
Catch some rays.
00:04:27
Xochitl
Edson rays. I think a lot of people use this in surf culture and and hippie culture, whether it's like I'm gonna go out and catch some rays like get some sunshine.
00:04:40
Jack
Yes. Yep. Get get it. Get some sun, get get some sun sunbathing. Get some sunshine, get some rays.
00:04:51
Jack
UM freak out.
00:04:57
Xochitl
Freak out.
00:05:04
Xochitl
Just go all out, man. Go like.
00:05:09
Xochitl
There's that song that has that as a lyric. Yeah, I think that. Yeah.
00:05:13
Jack
Freak out.
00:05:17
Xochitl
It's just like having.
00:05:18
Xochitl
A good time and and dancing and stuff. I think I don't know.
00:05:24
Jack
Oh, wow. OK, so this one, you kind of missed this one a little bit. I mean, I think I think you're thinking more of like I think.
00:05:28
발표자
Thank you.
00:05:32
Jack
The more modern version of.
00:05:33
Jack
This is like to kind of freak out. Is like to go.
00:05:37
Jack
To get freaky, which is totally different like freaky.
00:05:40
Xochitl
Well, freak out trying to like freak out is like, Oh my God. Like, that's horrible too. That would that even this context? Because something because it can also mean like your parents freaked out because you wouldn't. You decided to skip school today.
00:05:46
Jack
Right. And lose control.
00:05:58
Jack
Yes, exactly. Got angry.
00:05:59
Xochitl
That's what it means. Ohh.
00:06:00
발표자
They freaked out, yeah.
00:06:00
Xochitl
That's the context, I think just too.
00:06:02
Jack
That's the context.
00:06:03
발표자
Hard about it because.
00:06:04
Xochitl
I like if it's old then it must be something different, because I remembered that song.
00:06:09
Jack
Right, right. Yeah. And maybe like, you're right, I think there is. There are a couple of contexts for this one actually. Yeah, cause the freak out can also mean to, like, get freaky, which is to more of like, just, like, lose lose control in a good way, you know? And just like like let loose.
00:06:09
Xochitl
And I.
00:06:17
Xochitl
Right, there's.
00:06:30
Jack
But in this case, yeah, they're saying more. Like get angry, you know, emotionally lose control and freak out. My parents freaked out.
00:06:43
Jack
How about dude?
00:06:45
Jack
Now this is 70s now we're in the 70s now.
00:06:48
Xochitl
Food is just a word for a guy. It's just like both a dude or a person, but but usually different.
00:06:51
Jack
Right.
00:06:54
Jack
Yeah, you use it. I still use it. I'm like, hey, dude, come on, you know.
00:07:00
Xochitl
I used to say hey, man or hey guy.
00:07:02
Xochitl
Hey, I do. I think they do, I think.
00:07:02
Jack
Yeah, yeah.
00:07:05
Xochitl
I do use it sometimes though.
00:07:06
Jack
Yeah, I I used it more like dude.
00:07:09
Jack
Like, why did you do that?
00:07:10
Xochitl
What the heck?
00:07:12
Xochitl
Man, that is weird. Yeah, like.
00:07:15
Jack
Dude, relax, chill out.
00:07:17
Xochitl
I really but it.
00:07:18
Xochitl
Was like the only person I really talked to like that was my dog. When I tell him like.
00:07:22
Jack
Yeah. You're like, come on, dude. Yeah.
00:07:26
Jack
UM, funky.
00:07:29
Xochitl
Funky is.
00:07:34
Xochitl
Is that a good thing?
00:07:36
Xochitl
Yeah. OK. Then if in the context where it's a good thing, it just means.
00:07:43
Xochitl
Cool, fresh, original groovy. It's like the same thing size.
00:07:48
Jack
Yeah, same thing. Same thing. Yeah, boogie.
00:07:54
Xochitl
That means to dance.
00:07:56
Jack
To dance is to boogie.
00:07:58
Xochitl
The as the song goes so.
00:08:00
Jack
Yep, Yep, there you go.
00:08:03
Jack
This one is right in your wheelhouse right here. This is related to your name.
00:08:08
Jack
Chill out.
00:08:10
Xochitl
Pill out. It just means to relax, like dude, chill out is like, take it down a few notches. Relax. It's not that you're chill out.
00:08:20
Jack
I like that dude. Chill out, right?
00:08:24
Xochitl
Ohh, groovy man. Chill out.
00:08:25
Jack
Ohh baby, it's it's all far out tube sock.
00:08:33
Xochitl
What the heck?
00:08:34
Xochitl
This is like calling someone a tube sock.
00:08:37
Jack
No, this is just a just like a noun, just the the item. What is?
00:08:40
발표자
The tube stock.
00:08:41
Xochitl
Then ohh a person, a tube sock is just like a sock that people wore like a one of those white socks.
00:08:50
Xochitl
That goes up way up your shin.
00:08:51
Jack
Right.
00:08:52
Jack
Has has like 2 red stripes on it.
00:08:55
Xochitl
Yeah, or sometimes they're just white. But yeah, it's like in that vein.
00:08:58
Jack
Right.
00:08:59
Jack
Right.
00:08:59
Xochitl
That's funny. I thought it was like I still thought it was slang, so I was gonna be like, man, you're such a tube sock. Like I like.
00:09:06
Xochitl
An insult.
00:09:08
Jack
You suck.
00:09:12
Jack
Make it we're making new slang here the IT is the English podcast. Don't be a tube. Don't be such a tube sock, man.
00:09:19
Xochitl
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:20
Jack
Dude, foxy.
00:09:25
Xochitl
Ooh, foxy means like attractive person, woman or man. That's hot, attractive.
00:09:32
Jack
So what do you? Would you, you. You.
00:09:35
Jack
Like women will describe men as foxy as well.
00:09:38
Xochitl
I've seen it.
00:09:39
Xochitl
In old time movies, I don't know if if it's accurate to the time period, but I have seen.
00:09:46
Xochitl
And like in movies that are supposed to be like from, like Greece and stuff.
00:09:51
Xochitl
That's kind of in.
00:09:51
Xochitl
That time period.
00:09:52
Xochitl
I guess.
00:09:52
Jack
Yeah, I feel like women.
00:09:54
Xochitl
Have some.
00:09:54
Jack
More say like the hot like the hot.
00:09:58
Jack
That guy's hot.
00:09:58
Xochitl
Oh, yeah, well, no one really uses foxy period anymore, but I feel like in the time period I think people did use Foxy.
00:10:05
Jack
Yeah, yeah, I right. This is the 70s. I'm, I'm. I'm talking. I was talking about right now. Right. But you're right. Yeah.
00:10:12
Xochitl
Yeah, even now then, wouldn't use Foxy for women. Really. And women wouldn't really use foxy for men. But I think back in the time period, I do think it was.
00:10:20
Xochitl
At least somewhat gender neutral.
00:10:22
Xochitl
But probably more applied to women than men.
00:10:24
Jack
OK, OK.
00:10:26
Jack
This one if if any of these are going to.
00:10:29
Jack
Get you this will get you.
00:10:32
Jack
Gag me with a spoon.
00:10:37
Xochitl
I think they know the intent of what it means, but I'm trying to figure out how.
00:10:40
Xochitl
To phrase it, it's like uh, gag me.
00:10:43
Xochitl
With the spoon, man.
00:10:44
Xochitl
Like you like.
00:10:46
Xochitl
Is it that kind of thing?
00:10:48
Jack
Yeah. Disgusting. Yeah, yeah.
00:10:50
Xochitl
Rose, yeah.
00:10:51
Jack
Yeah. So when you see something disgusting, you, uh, gag me with a spoon. We used to use that a lot in the in the 80s when we were kids. I think we heard our parents use that expression.
00:11:02
Jack
From the 70s.
00:11:03
Jack
So yeah, I see something like, uh, gag me with a spoon, which is such a dumb expression. It's so stupid.
00:11:03
Xochitl
It's sunny.
00:11:14
Xochitl
It is kind of cringey.
00:11:16
Jack
Yeah. And why is spoon so weird?
00:11:20
Xochitl
Yeah, yeah. And it's using fingers.
00:11:20
Jack
I don't get it. Yeah.
00:11:27
Jack
OK. Yeah. Get those spoons out. Yeah, right on.
00:11:33
Xochitl
Right on my dad still uses that sometimes. It just means like it's, let's say, someone says an opinion. You really agree with, like. Yeah. Right on, man. Like, that's you're right, man. Like you got it.
00:11:47
Jack
Yeah, yeah, I like how you use man at the end there. That's very 70s.
00:11:51
Jack
Right on, man.
00:11:53
Xochitl
We don't need.
00:11:55
Jack
Totally man. Right on. No, wait. Totally. We haven't gotten to the 80s yet, so that's next week.
00:12:03
Jack
OK. Yeah, that's it again. Social, you aced the exam, but.
00:12:11
Xochitl
Yeah, I got this. You know, I have an old dad, kind of. So I guess that probably helps.
00:12:17
Jack
Well, you have a you have a groovy dad.
00:12:21
Xochitl
Yeah, I have a groovy dad. He. I mean, he's younger than your dad. He's like, in between your dad and your age. So.
00:12:28
Jack
Right. I mean, he's like he's either like a really, he's like an old Gen.
00:12:32
Jack
Xer or or a young.
00:12:34
Xochitl
Like the last, he was like the last year to be a Gen. X or the sorry the last year to be a boomer or the first year to.
00:12:41
Xochitl
Be a Gen. X or cusp.
00:12:43
Jack
OK, OK. And I'm I'm right on the the kind of opposite, I'm like the the.
00:12:48
Jack
What am I?
00:12:49
Jack
Like millennial Gen. X I'm, I'm on.
00:12:52
Jack
The line there.
00:12:53
Xochitl
Yeah. And I'm a Gen.
00:12:55
Xochitl
Z millennial cusp. So that's funny, we're just three generations of cuspers.
00:13:00
Jack
We're all. We're all just a bunch of lost generation people, you know? Yeah.
00:13:04
Xochitl
Yeah, there's a. There's a really funny. I'll send you it later. Jack. On Facebook, there's a guy who does like the different generations. And every time he does, Gen. X, the guy reminds me of you. He's always wearing, like, a beanie.
00:13:15
Xochitl
And it like.
00:13:17
Xochitl
It it just it kind of reminds me.
00:13:19
Xochitl
Of you in a way, because he's like wearing the beanie and stuff and it just like, yeah, it's like.
00:13:23
Xochitl
Jack, in a way, I don't describe it, but.
00:13:25
발표자
I'm. I'm I'm.
00:13:26
Jack
Always wearing a I'll be either a ball cap or a beanie, but it's not a it's not a shame thing, it's more just like a my head gets cold.
00:13:34
Xochitl
I think it's a good trend thing, like for that, for like people who are kind of Gen. Xers because it's like he's representing Gen. Xers and he's always.
00:13:42
Xochitl
Wearing the beanie.
00:13:43
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we do wear like, yeah, that kind of like that, like, Brooklyn, the hipster kind of.
00:13:44
Xochitl
And I think that's.
00:13:52
Xochitl
Look. And it's funny because.
00:13:53
Jack
Yeah, beanie, look.
00:13:53
Xochitl
When he's a millennial, he wears like a baseball cap. And so it's funny that you're like on the cusp and you wear, like, the baseball cap or the beanie.
00:14:02
Jack
Yeah, my my style is like if I if I don't look like a gas station attendant, then I'm doing something wrong, that that's my, my, my kind of look.
00:14:03
발표자
Right.
00:14:14
Xochitl
Yeah, that's kind of what this, Jenna, I'll. I'll have to send it to you. It really it reset. It resonates with your aura.
00:14:21
Jack
Yeah. Nice.
00:14:23
발표자
OK.
00:14:23
Xochitl
Alright, listener as well, let us know what you think and comment down below at A-Z englishpodcast.com shoot us an e-mail at AZ englishpodcast@gmail.com and join our WeChat and WhatsApp groups to join the conversation. We'll see you guys.
00:14:37
Xochitl
Next time, bye bye.
00:14:38
발표자
Bye bye.
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