What Was The Most Popular Slang Term From Your Birth Year?
Unless you were really up on the trends as a fetus, you'll never know this. But what was the most popular slang term the year you were born?
Good Housekeeping put together a list of the most popular terms for every year from 1926 to 2006. Here's a look by the decades:
- 1950s:
- 1950 – beautiful people
- 1951 – nerd
- 1952 – divey
- 1953 – hippie
- 1954 – boonies
- 1955 – cool
- 1956 – nit-picker
- 1957 – Endsville
- 1958 – nuke
- 1959 – hot-dog
- 1960s:
- 1960 – dullsville
- 1961 – bratty
- 1962 – drop-dead gorgeous
- 1963 – Mickey Mouse, goofing off at work
- 1964 – aw shucks
- 1965 – grody
- 1966 – kegger
- 1967 – freak flag
- 1968 – bippy
- 1969 – out of sight
- 1970s:
- 1970 – dorky
- 1971 – deadheads
- 1972 – guilt trip
- 1973 – carbo
- 1974 – motorhead
- 1975 – detox
- 1976 – hardball
- 1977 – brewski
- 1978 – pig out
- 1979 – nostalgia-fest
- 1980s:
- 1980 – frizzy
- 1981 – chill pill
- 1982 – buff
- 1983 – beat box
- 1984 – that's major
- 1985 – radness
- 1986 – studmuffin
- 1987 – couch surfing
- 1988 – F-bomb
- 1989 – trash talk
- 1990s:
- 1990 – kewl
- 1991 – tighty whiteys
- 1992 – NOT
- 1993 – da bomb
- 1994 – Benjamins
- 1995 – as if
- 1996 – whatever
- 1997 – jiggy
- 1998 – phat
- 1999 – bling
Read more at Good Housekeeping.