Youth slang. Youth slang of the times of the USSR

For the youth subculture, slang is often a way of self-expression. Remember how you adolescence used different words, which often had nothing to do with normal speech. Most young people use such words regularly, without even thinking about who and when they were invented.

So, the 1960s slang dictionary:

Boilers - wristwatches

Heel - take a leisurely walk

Shoes on porridge - shoes with thick soles made of white synthetic rubber

Broadway is the main (central) street of any city. For example, in St. Petersburg they called Broadway Nevsky Prospekt, and in Moscow - Gorky Street (Peshkov Street)

Mani, manyushki - money

Shoelaces in a glass - an expression meaning that parents are at home

Baruch - a girl who has a broad outlook on communication with guys

Sovposhiv - a distorted abbreviation "sovposhiv", that is, things made in the USSR

Chucha - a song from the movie "Sunny Valley Serenades", which became a cult for the dudes of the Soviet Union

Music on the bones - a method of recording self-made music records on x-rays

Style - dance

to bark - to have sex

Example: “Yesterday we were sick on Broadway, one of my buddies promised shoes on porridge and also drove about the boilers of the Shtatskie, but it wasn’t lucky - he threw a fraerok, having brought some kind of Riga one. There were manyushki, we decided to go to the "Aist", so there the redneck raised a screech because of my barucha. There was no way they could come to my hut: shoelaces in a glass. Let's go to her. They listened to the stuff on the bones, spread it, shrugged it off, there was no mood to fight - so they fell out.

Dictionary of the 1970s:

Polis - militia

Gerla - girl

Khaep - long hair

Saw hair - cut. In those years, this was often done in the police during the arrest

Hairatnik - a ribbon that supports the hair on the forehead

face -appearance, face

Outfit - clothes

Strive - to be afraid, to be frightened

Fakman - an unpleasant type, a loser

to mock - to laugh at someone, to mock

Skip - leave, run away

Drinchit to craze - get drunk to unconsciousness

Example: I recently sawed the policy haer bald, I spent so long for the civil one. My ancestors still approved of my face, if only I had started a Soviet outfit, they would have caught glitches from the buzz. Such jokes aspired me, I felt like a fakmen without a hairdresser. Then my girlfriend at first joked over me, then skipped altogether. For several weeks I walked around like a dead man, all I did was sit like a stoned man, drank hard to the point of craze, nothing caught on.

1980s vocabulary:

Break off - lose interest in something, lose heart, be left with nothing, "burn out"

Session - concert

Iron - a farce trader (buyer or speculator) who buys things and currency from foreigners

Ask - to ask passers-by for money on the street. A popular character in this method of receiving money was Janis Abaskaitis, a mythological Lithuanian who allegedly lost his ticket to Riga and needed funds to return home.

Birch - this was the name of the workers of the voluntary squad, who helped the police to carry out educational sanctions against informal youth

Sister, sister - system girl

Lubera - residents of Lyubertsy, who wore checkered pants sewn from curtains, and short haircuts, considered it their duty to come to the capital and beat all owners of long hair. These aggressive young people loved in free time swing on homemade simulators.

Enter - let good people spend the night at your home

Washcloth - a girl who can not be called a "beauty"

System - common name all informals

"Tourist" - an inexpensive coffee shop popular among system engineers, located near the Boulevard Ring, a common meeting place for them

Gogol - Gogol Boulevard

M2 - federal highway Moscow-Simferopol

For the youth subculture, slang is often a way of self-expression. Remember how you used different words as a teenager, which often had nothing to do with normal speech. Most young people use such words regularly, without even thinking about who and when they were coined.