Put down - To say bad things about someone Off the line - Start of a drag race (greaser) Nowheresville was a boring, bad place to be. Most - A in "the most" - high praise usually of the opposite sex Usually used to get a storyteller back on track.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch - From TV Westerns. Make the scene - To attend an event or activity
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Lay a patch - To accelerate so rapidly that you leave a patch of rubber on the road. Kookie - Nuts, in the nicest possible way Hang - As in "hang out" which means to do very little
Greaser - A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. Goose it - Accelerate the car fully (greaser) Get Bent! - Disparaging remark as in "drop dead" Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)Ĭruisin' for a bruisin' - Looking for troubleĭibs - A claim - as in "got dibs" on that seatĭrag - (greaser) A short car race (beatnik) A boreįlip - To get excited - "He's gonna flip when he hears the news."įloor it - Push the accelerator to the floor (greaser) Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)Ĭlyde - Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)Ĭool - Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinaryĬrazy - Implies an especially good thing - "Like crazy, man"Ĭream - Originally, to dent a car. This is nowhere near a definitive list, just some of our very favorites that have a place in our Rockabilly vocabulary already!Īre you writing a book? - You're asking too many questionsīaby - Cute girl, term of address for either sexīetty - a person of the female persuasionīlast - "That party was a real blast." - A good timeīurn rubber - To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)Ĭherry - Originally, an unaltered car. And while of the vocabulary overlaps, some terms are fairly specific to the beatniks (think pre-hippies) and the greasers (think hot-rodders - You may notice there are a lot of car references!) Some of our favorite rockabilly quotes Much of the rockabilly slang has been absorbed by mainstream culture. Through several '50s revivals (think bands like The Stray Cats and movies like The Outsiders from the '80s) this language has stayed firmly in use and even evolved.
Throw in some beatnik jazz inspired slang of the day and you have what becomes a subculture that speaks its own language. (If you've never seen Rebel Without a Cause or listened to Rockabilly music, how did you even find this page?) James Dean's demeanor, knife fights, and fast cars is about as cool as it gets.
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The movie Rebel Without a Cause (among others) and the beginnings of rock and roll music have inspired a whole generation of teen rebels. But to take your rockabilly lifestyle a step further, why not talk the talk too! Where did this rockabilly slang come from? A pair of jeans with rolled cuffs, striped shirt, black boots, chain wallet and of course the classic pompadour is all it takes to make the look. When it comes to men's fashion, rockabilly or greaser style is about as classic cool as it gets. "Rockabilly" can refer to a musical style as well as a fashion sense.
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