THE WORD HYPERBOLE

hi-per-ba-lee

………..is an exaggeration to create an effect

eg……..the bag weighed a ton, i could sleep for a year etc,

hi per bowl eee

@rogue trader wrote:

OK,im no mind reader,but id say about 8 out of ten of you cats,read this word phonetically as hiper bowl
but its not
bye.

More Cool Fifties Slang
Agitate the Gravel – To leave (hot-rodders)
Ankle-biter – A child
Ape Used with go – to explode or be really mad
Are you writing a book? – You’re asking too many questions

Baby – Cute girl, term of address for either sex
Back seat bingo – Necking in a car
Bad news – Depressing person
Bash – Great party
Bent eight – a V-8 engine (hot-rodders)
Big Daddy – An older person
Big tickle – Really funny
Bit – An act
Blast – A good time
Blow off – To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed – Shortened
Boss – Great
Bread – Money
Bug “You bug me” – to bother
Burn rubber – To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)

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Cast an eyeball – To look
Cat – A hip person (Beats)
Chariot – Car (Beats)
Cherry – Originally, an unaltered car. Later, anything attractive (hot-rodders, originally)
Chrome-plated – Dressed up (hot-rodders, originally)
Circled – Married
Classy chassis – Great body
Cloud 9 – Really happy
Clutched – Rejected
Clyde – Term of address, usually for a normal person (Beats)
Cook, cookin’ – Doing it well
Cool – Indefinable quality that makes something or someone extraordinary
Cool it – Relax, settle down
Cooties – Imaginary infestations of the truly un-cool
Cranked – Excited (Beats)
Crazy “Like crazy,man” – Implies an especially good thing
Cream – Originally, to dent a car. Later, to badly damage (hot-rodders, originally)
Cruisin’ for a bruisin’ – Looking for trouble
Cube – A normal person
Cut the gas – Be quiet!
Cut out – Leave

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Daddy-O – Term of address (Beats)
D.D.T. (Drop Dead Twice) – Response: What, and look like you?
Deuce – A 1932 Ford (hot-rodders)
Dibs – A claim – as in “got dibs” on that seat
Dig – To understand; to approve
Dolly – Cute girl
Don’t have a cow – Don’t get so excited
Drag – (hot-rodders) A short car race; (Beats) A bore
Duck Butt or D.A. – Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.

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Earthbound – Reliable
Epistle – Letter
Eyeball – Look around

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Fake Out – A bad date
Fast – Someone who was sexually active
Fat City – A great thing or place; Happy
Fire Up – Start your engine (hot-rodders)
Flat out – Fast as you can
Flat-top – Men’s hairstyle. A crewcut which is flat across the top
Flick – A movie
Flip – To get very excited
Flip-top – A convertible car
Floor it – Push the accelerator to the floor (hot-rodders)
Fracture – To amuse
Fream – Someone who doesn’t fit in
Frosted – Angry

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Get Bent! – Disparaging remark as in “drop dead”
Get with it – Understand
Gig – Work, job (Beats)
Go ape – Get very excited
Go for pinks – A drag race where the stakes are the car’s pink slip (hot-rodders)
Goof – Someone who makes mistakes
Goopy – Messy
Goose it – Accelerate the car fully (hot-rodders)
Greaser – A guy with tons of grease in his hair, which later came to describe an entire group of people. Yes, John Travolta in Grease.
Grody – Sloppy, messy or dirty

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Hang – As in “hang out” which means to do very little
Haul ass – Drive very fast (hot-rodders)
Heat – Police (Beats)
Hep – With it, cool. Someone who knows the situation.
Hip – Someone who is cool, in the know. Very good.
Hipster – Same as above
Hopped up – A car modified for speed (hot-rodders)
Horn – Telephone
Hottie – A very fast car (hot-rodders)

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Illuminations – Good ideas, thoughts
In orbit – In the know
Ivy Leaguer – Pants style. Also any person who attended an Ivy League college

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Jacked Up – Car with raised rear end. (hot-rodders)
Jacketed – Going steady
Jelly Roll – Men’s hair combed up and forward on both sides, brought together in the middle of the forehead.
Jets – Smarts, brains

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Kick – A fun or good thing; Also, a fad
Kill – To really impress
Knuckle sandwich – A fist in the face
Kookie – Nuts, in the nicest possible way

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Later, also later, gator – Goodbye. See ya later, alligator. Response: after while crocodile.
Lay a patch – To accelerate so rapidly that you leave a patch of rubber on the road.
Lay on – To give (Beats)
Lighter – A crew cut
Like crazy; like wow – Really good, better than cool

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Machine – A car (hot-rodders)
Made in the shade – Success guaranteed
Make out – A kissing session
Make the scene – To attend an event or activity
Meanwhile, back at the ranch – From TV Westerns. Usually used to get a storyteller back on track.
Mirror warmer – A piece of pastel fabric (often cashmere) tied around the rear view mirror. A 50s version of the Medieval wearing your lady’s colors.
Most – A in “the most” – high praise usually of the opposite sex

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Nerd – Same as now. Bill Gates without the money.
Nest – A hair-do
Nod – Drift off to sleep
Nosebleed – As in hey, nosebleed – hey, stupid. Not a compliment!
No sweat – No problem
Nowhere – Opposite of cool. Nowheresville was a boring, bad place to be. (Beats)
Nuggets – Loose change

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Odd ball – Someone a bit off the norm
Off the line – Start of a drag race (hot-rodders)
On the stick – Pulled together. Bright, prepared…

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Pad – Home
Paper shaker – Cheerleader or Pom Pom girl
Party pooper – No fun at all
Passion Pit – Drive-in movie theatre
Peepers – Glasses
Pile up Z’s – Get some sleep
Pooper – No fun at all
Pop the Clutch – Release the clutch pedal quickly so as to get a fast start
Pound – Beat up
Punch it – Step on the gas (hot-rodders)
Put down – To say bad things about someone

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Radioactive – Very popular
Rag Top – A convertible car
Rap – To tattle on someone (Beats)
Rattle your cage – Get upset
Raunchy – Messy or gross in some other way
Razz my berries – Excite or impress me
Real gone – Very much in love. Also unstable. Hmm, there’s a difference?
Reds – The Communists
Righto – Okay
Rock – A diamond
Rocket – A car (hot-rodders)
Rod – A car (hot-rodders)
Royal shaft – Badly or unfairly treated

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Scream – Go fast
Screamer – A hot rod
Shoot low, they’re riding Shetlands – Be careful
Shot down – Failed
Shuck, shuckster – A deceiver, liar or cheat
Sides – Vinyl records
Sing – To tattle or inform on someone (Beats)
Sounds – Music
Souped up – A car modified to go fast
Spaz – Someone who is uncoordinated. A clutz.
Split – Leave
Square – A regular, normal person. A conformist.
Stacked – A woman with large er, ah…you know, well endowed.
Stack up – To wreck a car (hotrodder)
Submarine races – While waiting for the submarines to race, which might take quite awhile :>) couples found creative ways of killing the time.
Subterranean – A hipster. Used by both Ginsberg and Kerouac. (Beats)

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Tank – A large sedan (usually driven by parents)
Tear ass – Drive (or go) very fast
That’s close – Something wrong or not true
Think Fast – Usually said right before someone threw something at you
Threads – Clothes
Tight – Good friends
Total – To completely destroy, most often in reference to a car

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Unreal – Exceptional

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Wail – Go fast
Wazoo – Your rear end
Weed – A cigarette
Wet rag – Someone who’s just no fun
Word from the bird – The truth (Beats)
What’s buzzin, cuzzin – What’s new?
What’s you tale, nightingale – What’s the story?
Wheelie – Left the car’s front wheels off th

seriously i know the word and its known n an eggarrated sarcasm.. or common and garden Bullshyte..

hay pal bul ley..