How hip are you?
Some of these 70 slang words are still around today, while some have gone the way of the dodo.
Keen?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Cool","correct":true},{"answer":"Interested","correct":false},{"answer":"Plump","correct":false}],"answerText":" One of many synonyms for \"cool.\" Also used as \"peachy keen.\" ","answerImage":""}
Boogie?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A soldier","correct":false},{"answer":"To dance","correct":true},{"answer":"Someone uncool","correct":false}],"answerText":" Brought out in the early 20th century (originally US, in the sense ‘party’): of unknown origin. ","answerImage":""}
Crib?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A car","correct":false},{"answer":"A home","correct":true},{"answer":"A baby bed","correct":false}],"answerText":" Crib is an Old English word akin to Old High German krippa, the word for a manger—or rather, the trough in a stable designed to hold food for livestock. Over the centuries, crib has been applied as a name for various types of enclosures ","answerImage":""}
The Man?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A drag queen","correct":false},{"answer":"The government ","correct":true},{"answer":"A great guy","correct":false}],"answerText":" From about the 1950s, the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison, or other law enforcement or penal authorities. ","answerImage":""}
Foxy?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Good looking","correct":true},{"answer":"Shy","correct":false},{"answer":"Clever","correct":false}],"answerText":" This meaning comes from the Middle Ages, when a writer complained of women’s clothes that were so tight they had to \"stuff fox tails down the back of their skirts to hide their behinds.\" Weird. ","answerImage":""}
Square?
{"answers":[{"answer":"An uncool person","correct":true},{"answer":"A shape","correct":false},{"answer":"A secret spot","correct":false}],"answerText":" Square is a transliteration of what is originally an Irish term (dating back to the 1500s) — ’S cóir é. It is honest; therefore moral. ","answerImage":""}
Drag?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A cigar","correct":false},{"answer":"A car race","correct":false},{"answer":"A disappointment","correct":true}],"answerText":" A twist on the idea that dragging something heavy is difficult or unpleasant. ","answerImage":""}
Fuzz?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Facial hair","correct":false},{"answer":"Police","correct":true},{"answer":"Bad music","correct":false}],"answerText":" It's referencing the military or short hair cuts of authority figures. ","answerImage":""}
Chump?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A large body","correct":false},{"answer":"A fool or loser","correct":true},{"answer":"A hungry person","correct":false}],"answerText":" ‘Chump’ showed up in English around the 18th century and probably was an agglutination of the two words ‘chunk’ and ‘lump’, as it originally meant a “lump of wood”. ","answerImage":""}
Outta Sight?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Hidden","correct":false},{"answer":"Planned","correct":false},{"answer":"Fantastic","correct":true}],"answerText":" Some people or things were so far out they were 'out of sight'. Whatever \"substances\" the person who coined it might have been influenced by the existing phrase probably was the source. ","answerImage":""}
Brick House?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A good looking woman","correct":true},{"answer":"A jail cell","correct":false},{"answer":"A school or institution ","correct":false}],"answerText":" Coined by Shirley Hanna-King, the wife of a member of the R&B group “The Commodores”. ","answerImage":""}
Good Vibes?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Good energy","correct":true},{"answer":"Good music","correct":false},{"answer":"Good health","correct":false}],"answerText":" The phrase good vibrations was popularized, however, by the rock band The Beach Boys in their 1966 hit single “Good Vibrations.” ","answerImage":""}
Copacetic?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Problematic","correct":false},{"answer":"Alright","correct":true},{"answer":"Dealing","correct":false}],"answerText":" It comes from a Creole French word \"coupersetique\", meaning “that which can be coped with.” ","answerImage":""}
The Lowdown?
{"answers":[{"answer":"A lie","correct":false},{"answer":"A secret","correct":false},{"answer":"The truth","correct":true}],"answerText":" It could be a variant of the age-old saying 'to get to the bottom' of something. ","answerImage":""}
Hairy Eyeball?
{"answers":[{"answer":"Sneering","correct":true},{"answer":"Dirty","correct":false},{"answer":"Kind of drink","correct":false}],"answerText":" It is said to refer to the fact that when the eyes are narrowed, the eyeballs are ‘hairy’ from nearing the eyelashes. ","answerImage":""}