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Actor
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Show-off
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Agitate the Gravel
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To leave (hot-rodders)
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Ankle-biter
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A child
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Ape
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Used with go - to explode or be really mad
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Are you writing a book?
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You're asking too many questions
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Baby
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Cute girl, term of address for either sex
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Back seat bingo
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Necking in a car
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Bad news
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Depressing person
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Bash
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Great party
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Bent eight
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a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
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Big Daddy
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An older person
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Big tickle
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Really funny
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Bit
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An act
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Blast
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A good time
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Blow off
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To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
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Bobbed
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Shortened
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Boss
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Great
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Bread
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Money
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Bug
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"You bug me" - to bother
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Burn rubber
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To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)
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Cast an eyeball
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To look
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Cat
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A hip person (Beats)
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Chariot
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Car (Beats)
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Cherry
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Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
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Chrome-plated
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Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
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Circled
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Married
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Classy chassis
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Great body
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Cloud 9
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Really happy
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Clutched
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Rejected
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Clyde
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Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
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Cook, cookin'
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Doing it well
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Cool
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Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
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Cool it
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Relax, settle down
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Cooties
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Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
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Cranked
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Excited (Beats)
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Crazy
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"Like crazy,man" Implies an especially good thing
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Cream
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Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
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Cruisin' for a bruisin'
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Looking for trouble
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Cube
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A normal person
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Cut the gas
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Be quiet!
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Cut out
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Leave
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Daddy-O
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Term of address (Beats)
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D.D.T. (Drop Dead Twice)
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Response: What, and look like you?
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Deuce
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A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
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Dibs
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A claim - as in "got dibs" on that seat
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Dig
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To understand; to approve
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Dolly
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Cute girl
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Don't have a cow
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Don't get so excited
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Drag
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(hot-rodders) A short car race; (Beats) A bore
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Duck Butt or D.A.
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Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.
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Earthbound
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Reliable
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Epistle
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Letter
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Eyeball
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Look around
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Fake Out
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A bad date
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Fast
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Someone who was sexually active
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Fat City
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A great thing or place; Happy
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Fire Up
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Start your engine (hot-rodders)
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Flat out
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Fast as you can
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Flat-top
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Men's hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
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Flick
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A movie
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Flip
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To get very excited
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Flip-top
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A convertible car
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Floor it
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Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
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Fracture
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To amuse
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Fream
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Someone who doesn't fit in
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Frosted
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Angry
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Get Bent!
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Disparaging remark as in "drop dead"
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Get with it
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Understand
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Gig
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Work, job (Beats)
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Go ape
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Get very excited
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Go for pinks
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A drag race where the stakes are the car's pink slip (hot-rodders)
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Goof
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Someone who makes mistakes
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Goopy
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Messy
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