- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: No Exit Press (Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842430009
- ISBN-13: 978-1842430002
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 502,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"If you enjoy watching noir films, listening to blues or jazz, reading pulp novels or poring over certain song lyrics, this "dictionary of hipster slang," a guide to hep as it was spoken through the first half of the last century, will prove indispensable." --"Independent"
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Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some hogs? You're not drunk - you're just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn't pasty, it's just cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That's a shot of java, nix on the moo juice. Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock'n'roll lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s to the 1960's, Straight From The Fridge Dad lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dictionary of hipster slang 30's to the 60's.,
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This review is from: Straight from the Fridge Dad (Hardcover)
Unhook your ears, Jack. This aint no sucker bait. This hot little book is real gone, totally sent. I mean this book fractured me, I was paralysed man! If any of you long-gone daddies out there wanna impress the hot little mouse in your life then this is the bible for you. I used to be just a palooka in a bluesey groove. But since I've read this book I'm a jitterbuggin' hepcat with a whoopee mama on each arm! So get off the fence, Hortense. Buy this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Straight from the fridge, dad,
This review is from: Straight From the Fridge, Dad - A Dictionary of Hipster Slang (Paperback)
I bought this for my best friend and fully expect some groovy slang to be slipped into conversations from now on!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
File under cool,
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This review is from: Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster Slang (Paperback)
So cool it's cold, as the title would suggest. I got this book as a stocking filler and couldn't put it down, although most of the hipster slang is gangster speak and of varying degrees of vulgarity, it is side splittingly funny.Trying to picture people actually holding a conversation talking like this is probably the best thing about it. I've given it three stars because it's not really a book that you'd read again and again, but well worth a look. Buy this book or six of your friends will be carrying you by the handles, Jack. Plant you now Dig you later
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