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R - S Flashcards

1
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Radioactive

A

Very popular

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2
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Rag top

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A convertible car

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3
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Rap

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To tattle on someone

Beats

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Rattle your cage

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Get upset

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5
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Raunchy

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Messy or gross in some other way

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Razz my berries

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Excite or impress me

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Real gone

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Very much in love. Also unstable. Hmm, there’s a difference?

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Reds

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The communists

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Right-o

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Okay

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Rock

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A diamond

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Rocket

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A car

Hot rodders

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12
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Rod

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A car

Hot rodders

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Round wheels

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An easy woman (heels rounded by tipping backward into bed)

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14
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Royal shaft

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Badly or unfairly treated

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15
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Rug rats

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Small children

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Rumble

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A fight among gangs

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17
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Scream

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Go fast

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Screamer

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A hot rod

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19
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Scratch out

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To accelerate hard and fast

20
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Shades

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Sunglasses

21
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Shaft or shafted

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Getting a bad deal

22
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Shiner

A

A black eye

23
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Shoot low, they’re riding shetlands

A

Be careful

24
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Shot down

A

Failed

25
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Shuck, shuckster

A

A deceiver, liar, or cheater

26
Q

Sides

A

Vinyl records

27
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Sing

A

To tattle or inform on someone

Beats

28
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Sit on it

A

Loosely means “up your keister” popularized by the tv show “Happy Days”

29
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Snogging

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Kissing… and only kissing!

30
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Socs

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Short for ‘socials’ the “in” crowd opposite of ‘greasers’

31
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Sounds

A

Music

32
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Souped up

A

A car modified to go fast

33
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Spaz

A

Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz

34
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Split

A

Leave

35
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Split a wig

A

To beat someone up

36
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Square

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A regular, normal person. A conformist

37
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Stacked

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A woman with large er, ah… well you know, well endowed

38
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Stacked up

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To wreck a car

Hot rodders

39
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Steady

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Continuous, knowledge of doing something

40
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Stomps

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A social group that dressed in western wear

41
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Submarine races

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While waiting for the submarines to race, which might take quite awhile, couples found creative ways of killing the time

42
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Subterranean

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A hipster. Used by both Ginsburg and Kerouac

Beats

43
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Suicide knob

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A knob on the steering wheel to make turning easier

44
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Supermurgiteoid

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Cool or with it

45
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Swell

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Great, good, or wonderful. Can also be used sarcastically

50s Slang (9 decks)

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