Straight From The Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang

by Max Decharne

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Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk - you're just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn't pasty, it's just cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice.

Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From The Fridge Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.

  • ISBN10 184243120X
  • ISBN13 9781842431207
  • Publish Date 1 November 2004 (first published 6 November 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 November 2007
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Oldcastle Books Ltd
  • Imprint No Exit Press
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 224
  • Language English
  • URL https://noexit.co.uk