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Vintage Slang — Back In Time
Jive, flappers, beatniks & more — the slang that built the language.
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Harlemese — The Original Jive
The 1930s–40s Harlem jive of Cab Calloway & the jazz cats.
17
Jive Talk
The coded language of jazz musicians and Harlem hipsters.
18
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Plates of meat, dog and bone — East London’s coded classic.
63
Polari — Britain’s Secret Gay Slang
Bona, vada, naff — the coded cant of a criminalised era.
29
Thieves’ Cant — The Rogues’ Lexicon
Prig, doxy, darkmans — the secret talk of Tudor rogues.
20
Verlan — French Backslang
Meuf, keuf, ouf — the banlieue argot that flips words inside out.
22
Lunfardo — The Tango Argot
Mina, guita, feca — Buenos Aires’ immigrant street slang.
22
Nadsat — A Clockwork Orange Slang
Droog, horrorshow, viddy — Burgess’s invented teen argot.
22
Leet / 1337 — Hacker Speak
n00b, pwned, w00t — the elite-speak of BBS & gaming.
18
Beatnik Slang
Daddy-o, the most, far out — 1950s Beat Generation cool.
15
1920s Slang — The Jazz Age
The bee’s knees, giggle water — Roaring Twenties speak.
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