#prohibition

A fiery, spirited young woman with attitude and energy to spare.

Nonsense, lies, or foolish talk, the meaty cousin of 'applesauce.'

An illegal Prohibition bar, where the 'juice' flowed despite the law.

Completely wrong or mistaken, the 1920s way to say you've got it backwards.

Prohibition-era nickname for liquor, named for the loose, laughing mood it brought on.

Flapper brush-off meaning no more kissing or canoodling tonight, fella.

A beat-up, rattletrap old automobile held together by hope and tape.

Delightful, darling, or just dandy, a sweet word of approval from the flapper set.

A hidden illegal bar of the Prohibition era where you spoke easy to get in.

Excellent, first-rate, or wonderful, a go-to word of approval in the jazz age.

A flapper's flirty question: do you want to kiss me now or later?

Flapper slang for plastered, all buzz and no balance.

The boss, the head honcho, the most important person in the room.

Roaring Twenties praise for the absolute best thing or person around.

A Prohibition speakeasy dressed up as a sideshow, you paid to see the 'tiger' and got a drink free.

Jazz-age slang for the coolest, classiest, most wonderful thing going.

Roaring Twenties for blind drunk, one of dozens of comic synonyms born under Prohibition.

A 1920s cry of 'nonsense!' since horses have no feathers in the first place.

Flapper-era way to call something nonsense, like saying 'baloney' or 'bunk.'

Cheap bootleg liquor, the rough stuff that flowed through Prohibition speakeasies.

Twenties slang for so drunk you've gone stiff as bone.

A glamorous, alluring young woman of the jazz age, the female counterpart to a sheik.

A smooth, romantic young ladies' man of the 1920s, named after Valentino.