BA  Bare Ass

Bad  Awesome

Badass  A tough guy. A guy you really don't want to mess with.

Bag  To Steal. Example: Who bagged my towel?

Bitchin  Good, Exciting, Awesome.

Bite Me  So what / I don't care.

Blast  A Great Time. Example: "We had a blast at the Prom".

Blew the doors off  Easily beat the other car in a race.

Bogart  To "hog" something.

Bone Yard  Auto wrecking yard; Junk yard.

Book  Leave the area.

Bookin'  Going real fast, usually in a car.

Boss  A great or cool thing.  "The Beach Boys new record is really boss".

Bread  Money

Brody  To skid in a half circle with the brakes locked up.

Bummed out  Depressed

Bummer, What a  How depressing

Burn RubberTo accelerate hard spinning the tires, making noise, and billows of smoke come from the rear of the vehicle.

Candyass  A real wimp or an uncool thing.

Cherry  Really cool or bitchin. Example: "That girl with the tight sweater is really choice."

Chick  A girl or a woman.

Chinese Fire Drill  Stop at a Red Light. Everyone on the Driver's side would run around and get in on the Passenger's side. Everyone on the Passenger's side would run around and get in on the Driver's side.

Choice Really cool or bitchin. Example: "That girl with the tight sweater is really choice."

Choose Off  To pick a fight or a race; as in, "John is going to choose-off Bob in a race for pinks". Or, "Ralph chose-off Bertha after school and she kicked his butt."

Chop  To cut down verbally.

Chrome Dome  A bald guy.

Church Key  Before poptops, a Beer or Soda can was opened with one of these.

Cool Nice.

Cool Head  Nice Guy

Cooties  Someone who wasn't cool had them. No one ever saw them, but you knew who had them.

Cop a Feel  Touch a girls "parts", sometimes pretending it was an accident

Crash  Go to bed; go to sleep.

Cruising  Driving up and down the same street looking for races, girls, guys, etc.

Dibs  Most always used with "Got". Example: I "got dibs" on that Coke bottle. Meaning you owned that Coke bottle.

Don't have a Cow  Used when someone was "going ape" or perhaps being a "spaz."
Example: So I took your book by mistake, don't have a cow about it.

Example: So I took your book by mistake, don't have a cow about it.

Don't Sweat It  Don't worry about it; stop bothering me

A Drag Someone or something that's boring or un-enlightening.

Easy  Also a girl who was a sure thing, sexually. Example: That girl Bob took out last night was "Easy".

Fink  A tattle tale. Example: You're such a fink. Why do you always tell mom everything I do?

Five Finger Discount  Anything obtained by theft.

Flake  A useless person.

Flake Off  Get outta here.

Flower Child  A Hippie

Fox  An outstanding looking girl or woman.

Freak Out  Temporary loss of control due to an unpleasant event.

"F**kin' A"  This was simply the vulgar form of, "I concur".

Fuzz  The Police

Get or Lay Rubber  To leave some rubber on the street while accelerating in a vehicle. A term used usually with first, second, third, or fourth gear.

Go All The Way  Have sex with.

Going Steady  If you were "Going Steady", you were dating only one special person.

Gnarly  Originally a difficult or large wave (He wiped out on a gnarly wave),later anything big or difficult

Groovy  Nice, "Cool" or Neat. Used commonly among hippies in the 60's.

Groady (grow'- tee):  A shortened version of grotesque.

Hairy  Large; out of control. Example: "Check out the hairy slicks on that Chevy.

Hangin'  Awesome, Cool

Hangin' a B.A.  A car full of guys pulls up to another car (usually full of girls) and one of the guys pulls down his pants, bends over, and sticks his "bare ass" out the window.

Hang Loose  Relax; Take it easy.

Haulin (Ass)  See Bookin'

Hauls Ass  A car that really moves.

Heat  The Cops

Heavy  Deep, Cool, Chaotic, Sad, Controversial

Hep  With it. A person who understands the situation.

Hip Very good,cool.

Hodad  A non-surfer, usually someone who just hangs around the beach.

Hopped Up  See Souped Up

Hunk  What a girl would call a good looking guy

Jam  To leave the area, (See "Cut Out")

Jazzed  Elated, Excited; "This is going to be a great reunion. I'm really jazzed about going."

Keen or Keen-o  Someone or something that was Cool.

Kipe  To steal.

Kiss up  The proverbial "Teachers Pet". This person who would do anything to please the teacher.

Knocked Up  Pregnant

Later  Goodbye; See you later

Lay A Patch To accelerate leaving a strip or patch of rubber behind on the road.

Make Out  Usually a kissing session in a parked car at a Drive In or other secluded place.

Midnight Auto Supply  Car parts obtained through theft.

Moon  To drop your pants, bend over, and show your bare butt. (See "Hangin a B.A.")

Neat (Neato)  Nice; Sharp

Old Lady  Your Mother.

Old Man  Your Father.

On the Make  Usually after a break up of steadies, a guy or girl who was "on the make" was looking very hard for a new mate.
Also, someone who's looking for another someone, sexually.

Also, someone who's looking for another someone, sexually.

Outta Sight Fantastic, Awesome. Example: Hey Kathleen, that tie dyed top your wearing is "outta sight".

Pad  Someone's house. Example: There wasn't much to do so we all hung out at John's pad, drank Cokes and listened to records

Pants  An activity where usually two or more boys physically remove the pants from another boy so as to cause him embarrassment in a group setting.

Peel Out (See Lay A Patch)

PG  Pregnant as in Nurse Sizer

Pig  Cop

Pig Out  Over eat

Pound  If someone was going to beat up someone else you said he was going to "pound" the other person. For an example, Joe caught Jim with the hubcaps that he stole from Joe's '50 Merc last night. He'll probably pound him after school

Primo  First class.

Raunchy  Raw, Rank, Disgusting

Right On  I agree; I concur

Righteous  Extremely fine, beautiful. For us guys it was generally used when talking about the most important areas of our lives; cars and women.
Examples:
"John's got a righteous new paint job on his '55 Chevy".
"Ron met this righteous babe down at 26th St.".

Examples:"John's got a righteous new paint job on his '55 Chevy".
"Ron met this righteous babe at A Street.".

Ripped Off  To have something stolen, or to have stolen something

Rule  As in, "Hodads Rule"; To take ownership of

Sano  Usually referring to someones car, or part of ones car, as being pristine: "Ron did a sano job on his 56 Chevy".
also "Super Sano" (Very Pristine)

also "Super Sano" (Very Pristine)

Scarf  To eat very fast. Example:"I'm going to scarf this hot dog".

Scheming  When someone is really interested in the opposite sex. Example: "Jim is really scheming on Jill"

Score  To obtain something valuable or necessary; (Let's go score some pizza.); Also to go all the way with a girl.

Short  Car.

Shotgun  place of honor in the front seat of a car nearest the door. Usually reserved for the coolest guy in the group besides the driver of the car. If there is a doubt, before entering the car someone will call shotgun and then everyone will argue as to who actually will ride shotgun.

Shoot A Beaver  A girl who accidentally flashed by spreading one's thighs while seated wearing a skirt or dress.

Skag  An ugly girl.

Skank  See Skag

Skanky  Gross, Disgusting

Skirt  Girl

Skuzz  Lowdown; undesirable

Skuzz Bucket  An ugly car

Slug Bug  This when you saw a VW beetle on the road. Saying "Slug Bug" before anyone else gave you the right to hit or slug the person next to you

Slut  A promiscuous girl

So Fine Another cool or bitchin' thing. "That girl in my science class is so fine".

Used in a variety of early rock and roll songs usually as follows:
"She's so fine, she makes me want to blow my mind".

So Tuff  See So Fine

Smokem'  "Let's see you burn rubber"

Solid  Something that is ok or all right.

Sosh  Meaning a person who is stuck-up, snooty, and thinks they are better than everyone else.

Spaz  Used as a put down, or to describe someone who was acting retarded.

Split  See Cut Out

Sponge  One big need. Everything you get comes from those around you. AKA; bum. Also practiced by those who are so stingy as not to spend their own money. Someone who is always borrowing money or is always broke. A spongy person

Stacked  Being well endowed, "Upstairs" Example: "Wow, that girl is really stacked!!"

Steady  Boyfriend or Girlfriend

Stoked (as in I'm stoked)  Excited

Stoned  Intoxicated

Stood Up  When a guy (or girl) didn't show up for a date

Stuck Up  Conceited

Stud  See Hunk

Swear to Buddha  I guess we thought it was less irreverant than saying "I swear to God."

Sweat Hog  A fat chick.

Swipe  To steal or take   He swiped my lunch.

Teach  A Teacher

"The Bird"  The Finger.

"The Most"  Something that is the best or the greatest (Superbitchin')

"The Man"  Police

Think Fast  It usually was used to tell you to get ready because someone was tossing you something.

Threads  Clothes

"Three On The Tree"  A car with a three speed manual transmission and the shifter on the steering column.

Tough or Tuff  Neat, cherry, great, bitchin'. - as in "Wow, she's really a tuff chic!"

Trollin'  Cruising the Boulevard looking for girls. As in "Let's go trollin' for some chicks."

Twitchin'  The word used instead of Bitchin', around your parents

Uncorked  Running your car with the "Cut Outs" open.

Wedgees  A shoe style. The sole and heel were one piece and on the same plane.

Wedgie  When someone pulls your underwear up from the back and it ends up in the crack all on it's own. Now they call it a thong and wear them on purpose.

What's Your Bag, Man?  What's your problem; where are you coming from?

Wicked  Term of Admiration. Example:"That Chevy that Bob has is one wicked machine." 

Wiggin' out  Going crazy

Winnie  As in, "He gave me the Winnie." Or "I got the Winnie." It could mean many things. For example: The jerk didn't show up for our date last night! Or, I got grounded for coming in late!
When things really got bad, it was the "Big Winnie."

When things really got bad, it was the "Big Winnie."

Wipe(d) out  Originally, to fall off a wave while surfing, later to crash one's vehicle and severely damage it (He wiped his coupe out at the drags.), then later a term for extreme fatigue (I'm wiped out, I'm gonna crash.)

Wiz, Take a Urinate

Woody  An erection.

Woody Wagon  A wood sided station wagon used to transport surfboards and surfers to and from the beach.

Zits  Pimples.

I am amazed at the reluctance some people had about coming to our Camarillo High School class reunion.  And yet, everyone who did go said it was the best experience they had had in years.  I thought I would take a shot at listing the top ten reasons why not to come, that I learned from calling people from our Class of 1969.

1.        I wasn’t popular and didn’t have that many friends.  Guess what, nobody is popular anymore.  If you come, you will leave with at least 30 new friends for life.
2.        I didn’t hang out with people from my class   There will be a lot of people there from other classes.  It’s surprising how many.
3.        It costs too much.  Most of the events that are planned don’t cost anything.  And you have to eat somewhere don’t you?  Why not spend a meal with someone who flew 2000 miles to see you?
4.        I don’t look the same, so nobody will recognize me.  The truth is, none of us look the same.  We had to have name tags with our pictures on them.  You will too.  You should have seen people’s faces when they recognized each other.  That’s half the fun.
5.        I’d have to travel and it’s a long way there.  You already have several classmates that are traveling thousands of miles to come.  If you live within driving range you really need to make the sacrifice.    
6.        I’m not very social.  The best parts of these events are the one-on-one conversations you have with people you rarely talked to in high school.  You’ll be amazed about how much you share in common, like your parent’s health, your kids, your grandkids, and the many life changes you’ve experienced.
7.        I’m going to be busy.  Oh, come on.  You’ve only known about this for forty years!
8.        I’ve had a hard life and everybody else has had it way better.  Trust me; life has taken its toll on everyone.  You will hear some amazing stories of survival and gratefulness for life.
9.        I don’t have a date. When you get there and start talking to everyone, you’ll wish you didn’t have one anyway.
10.        I was really cool in high school, but now I’m just an overweight grandparent.   Ha. Ha. Now you know how the rest of us felt in High School.

Seriously, this is a wonderful opportunity to renew some valuable friendships and give the gift of support and love to your classmates who are working their tales off to put together a great weekend for you.  I know there is something planned for everyone, so please make an effort to attend as many of the weekend events as you can.  We had nearly 200 from our class come.  I promise you, if you go, you will be blessed.