Essential twenties slang…E-G
Friday, March 12th, 2010
- Donnning your glad rags
So we’re all off to Stokey! Are you donning your glad rags and heading out to the gin mill this weekend? Perhaps you’re off to get an edge off some giggle water or get goofy with some fish or who knows…maybe you’re heading for a real flat tire? Whatever you’re doing, get swotting up on this new installment of essential twenties slang – if only so you can find out what all of that actually meant 
Edge - intoxication, a buzz. i.e. “I’ve got an edge.”
Egg - a person who lives the big life
Fall Guy – Victim of a frame
Fire extinguisher – a chaperone
Fish -(1) a college freshman (2) a first timer in prison
Flat Tire – A dull witted, insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan
Flivver - a Model T; after 1928, could mean any old broken down car
Flapper - A stylish, brash, hedonistic young woman with short skirts & shorter hair
Fly boy – a glamorous term for an aviator
Frame - To give false evidence , to set up someone
Gams - A woman’s legs
Get a wiggle on – get a move on, get going
Giggle Water – An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
Gin Mill – An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar
Glad rags – “going out on the town” clothes
Gold Digger – A woman who associates with or marries a man for his wealth
Goofy - in love