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get some smarts 

phrase   "learn something," wise up

girl-ask-boy 

adj. a specially designated high school dance, usually sponsored by Girls' League or Tri-Hi-Y, for which it's ok for the girls to invite the boys

go steady  

v. going out with the same person all the time. Going steady can be a real drag.

gremmie 

n. an amateur surfer, beginner

hang a moon 

phrase   to take off your pants and flash your bare backside to the world

the heat 

n. police. Singular or plural, it's always the heat.

ho-dad 

n. a fake surfer. Someone who owns a board but doesn't know how to surf

hood 

n. short for hoodlum, a juvenile delinquent

hotbox 

v. to take a really deep drag on someone else's cigarette, so that the filter tip gets very hot. Usually done to annoy the other person.

keep a cool sky  

phrase   "goodbye"

lay rubber  

v. to leave tire marks on the street when you peel out

living doll  

n. same as doll, only more so. Fabian may be a doll, but Ricky Nelson is a living doll.

LP  

n. a twelve-inch, 33¹/3 rpm record album, literally, Long Playing, usually with six songs on each side

moons  

n. perfectly smooth convex hubcaps

no sweat  

phrase   "It'll be easy," or "Don't worry about it."

onion peeler 

n. switchblade knife

out to lunch  

phrase  "Doesn't know what's going on"

peel out  

v. to take off real fast in your car, from a standstill

pants  

v.  to sneak up behind someone and quickly pull his jeans down to his ankles. Like, Mike and Steve pants'd Eggy at McDonald's last night.

pink slip 

n. car title

pink slip daddy 

n. the guy who holds the car titles in his hand at a challenge drag race

play the role  

phrase   act like you're real boss so that people notice.   Really boss people never play the role.

raked  

adj. a car that's lowered only in front

rat  

v.  1. to tattle, to inform the police   2. a crude method of backcombing the hair, in which the entire strand is combed, not just the roots as in French lacing. If a beautician rats your hair, instead of french-lacing it, she isn't a very good beautician.

rumble 

n. fight

sack dress 

n. from the French word sacque.  A narrow-cut dress without a waistline, also called a chemise.

shagnasty  

v. to go, to leave quickly

shaved  

adj. door handles removed from the outside of a car

sheath dress 

n. a narrow-cut, form-fitting dress. Boys call them tight dresses.

skag  

n. an ugly person

skid lid 

n. safety helmet

slush box 

n. automatic transmission

speed shift  

v. to shift gears without using the clutch. By winding it out to the top speed in a low gear, the transmission will allow you to upshift without depressing the clutch. Not recommended, because if you mistime it by a split second, you can strip the gears and bend the linkage pretty bad.   SYN  power shift

spinners  

n. hubcap with one large wing-nut on the axle, for quick removal of a tire at the digs

spray net  

n. hair spray. The first television ads called it spray net because it held your hair in place like an invisible hair net.

three twos and a four  

phrase  "three two-barrel carburetors and a four speed transmission"

tooling  

v. carefree driving,  like, He was tooling down the road.

too much  

phrase   boss, bitchen. Can also be used sarcastically, if you think someone is conceited. Like, Mike Mauser is toooo much.

tuck and roll  

n. car upholstery, usually leather or Naugahyde^®, padded and vertically channel stitched, every two or three inches

wail on him  

phrase  "beat him up"

waste 

n. a really ugly person

weirdo drawings  

n. fantasy cartoons like Big Daddy Roth draws. Eyeballs with hands and feet, space aliens, cars with teeth, that sort of thing.

what's shakin?  

phrase   a greeting, similar to hello; What's up?

where it's at 

phrase   "the best," like, An XK-E is really where it's at.

wind it out  

v. to take a car up to top speed

wine spodi-odi 

n. whiskey with a port wine chaser

wing-ding 

n. a party

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