Posted by electra on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 1:30am.
There are some great sites here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=slang+from+1920s&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Sra
lickety split = quickly; right away
a white cow is a vanila milk shake
(a black cow is a Coke float)
carhops waited on people in their cars at drive-in fast food restaurants. Your food was served on a tray that hung on the open car window.
A motorcycle called a chopper until after WWII. In the twenties, it was a name for the Thompson submachine gun, or "tommy gun".
I left out "wasn't" after motorcycle and misspelled "vanilla"
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