Slang through the decades

Y5/6C have been looking at different slang through the decades as part of their 'Back to the future' project. We were surprised to see several words we use today are actually old slang words. We enjoyed discussing the words and created some new slang words of our own.

Here are some examples:

1950's
Boss = Great
Cat = Cool
Eyeball = To look around
Pad = Home
Split = Leave

1960's
Fat = Good or best
Jet = To move quickly
Pop = Popular or trendy
Shades = Sunglasses
Tube = Television

1970's
Ace = Great, really good
Awesome = Cool, great
Dig = To understand, to like
Totally = Sure, that's right
Word = I agree

1980's
Brill = Great, wonderful
Deadly = Cool, wicked
Gamer = Video game player
Sick = Cool
Trendy = Someone who follows fashion

1990's
Back in the day = Remember when?
Blood = Friend
Crib = House, apartment
Fresh = Cool, original, nice
My bad! = My mistake
Old school = Old fashioned


Some of our own we created
Tasty fruit = Nice phone, smart phones -Blackberry, Apple i-phone
Shadow = Sad
Bait = Food
Goal Post = Close
Vine = Classic
Twinkle = Bright
Cold = Mean
Drop off = Go away