A couple a Janes

It’s Friday, we’re hittin on all sixes,  time to get a wiggle on, head down to the juice joint  and shake a leg with the other hoofers!…ahem, in other words, it’s the weekend, why don’t you grap some dancers and head out to some of Londons great events this weekend? We’ll mostly be shaking it down at Club Thunderbird, The Big Ten Inch or maybe the Last Days of Decadence.

Don’t forget to go prepared with some more essential twenties slang

Hair of the Dog – a shot of alcohol
Handcuff - an engagement ring
Hard Boiled – a tough, strong guy
Hayburner - (1) a gas guzzling car (2) a horse one loses money on
Heebie-Jeebies – The jitters
High-Hat – To snub
Hit on all sixes - to perform 100 per cent; as “hitting on all six cyclinders”
Hooch - Bootleg liquor
Hood - hoodlum
Hoofer - Dancer
Horsefeathers - an expletive ; same usage as applesauce
Hotsy – Totsy – Pleasing
It – Sex appeal
Iron - a motorcycle
Jack - money
Jake - OK, as in , “Everything is Jake.”
Jalopy - Old car
Jane - any female
Java – coffee
Jitney - a car employed as a private bus. Fare was usually five cents; also called a “nickel”
Joe - coffee
John - a toilet
Juice Joint – a speakeasy

Essential twenties slang A-B

Essential twenties slang C-D

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