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| airhead: n. A stupid or unaware person; moron, dim-wit. Origin: term implies that there is nothing but air in the subject's head. |
| awesome: \Awe'some\ a. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. |
| bad: adj. very good, excellant; Cool, Awesome. See also awesome. |
| for sure/fer shur: To stress what you are saying. Usually in a valley type accent. Fer shur, fer shur dude! |
| eurotrash: Europeans who were rich that frequented that club scene in the early to mid 80's. |
| bogus/bogue: Unfair or unfortunate. |
| barfbag: A type of insult. |
| bomb: Adj. Something favorable. See also awesome. |
| cheesy/cheezy: Adj. Unattractive to the slight. |
| dink: Two incomes with no kids. A couple of yuppies with lots of money to burn. |
| clysdale: Big, all-American boy. Meant as word of praise. |
| choice: Extremely Cool |
| eat my shorts: Phrase used as comeback. |
| eurofag: Word used by Americans to describe usually British singers or bands of the early 80's. |
| fresh: Cool, new. Duran Duran's new album is so fresh! |
| gag me with a spoon: A typical Valley Girl response to something you dislike. Not meant to be taken literally. |
| gnarly: Very good. Not commonly used today. She is gnarly! |
| grody: really, really gross. |
| gross out/grostesque: To make someone sick. Not literally. |
| have a cow: Being overly excited or to make a big deal out of something. |
| hellacious: Bad, not good. |
| hoser: Loser, jerk. |
| ill: Uncool, unhip. "You be illin' ". |
| joanie: A boring , not-so-hip girl. Taken from the character of Joanie Cunningham from the tv show Happy Days. |
| lame: Used to describe something or someone who is not cool or acceptable. |
| like: A word used before every sentence in the 80's. "Like, are you going to the prom?" |
| major: To stress something you say, immensely. |
| o-rama: Suffix you affix to a word to describe the whole spectrum of the meaning. Example: "He is a Dweeb-o-rama". |
| out the door: A suffix used at the end of a phrase. "Gag me out the door." Meaning, something gaged them so much they had to leave the room. |
| party hearty/party hardy: To party excessively. |
| PC: 1. personal computer 2. Political correctness |
| poser: A 'wannabe' spin off. |
| road pizza: Road kill. A dead animal on the road. |
| scumbag: An undesirable person. |
| totally: Another way to stress what one is saying. |
| Valley Girl/Val: Airheaed , spoiled girls in California's San Fernando Valley. |
| tubular: Something that is cool |
| the max: To the extreme. |
| spazzing: Overly excited |
| skank: 1. Physically dirty, filth. 2. Immorally dirty. 3. Disapproval |
| wicked: Another word for good, radical or bad. |
| yuppie: Young urban professional -or- yourn upwardly mobile professional. |
| 80's Slang |
| The 80's Retro Revival Copyright 2000 by Mindy. |