1. Let's mosey!
   Let's blow this taco stand!
2. Roll out!
   Let's take a stroll.

When it comes time to leave someplace, you want to do it with a little style. So why say, "let's go"? It's much more colorful to just toss out a line like "Let's blow this taco stand" and take yourself and your friends elsewhere.

1. She's looking hot.
   She's stubborn.
2. She's unattractive.
   She's tough.

You need to look no further than the song "Brick House" by the Commodores to know that this term means someone looks very hot. In more specific terms, it's a reference to a person's body, which is to say, they're well built. Like a brick house.

1. Breaking wood
   Sleeping
2. Relaxing
   Heading to work

"Chillaxin'" is one of the greatest portmanteau words of all time, merging "chilling" with "relaxing." Both of those terms essentially mean the same thing, so chillaxin' is just some very dedicated hanging out and doing nothing.

1. Your hair
   Your work
2. Your opinions
   Your clothes

Having cool threads is always essential to looking good in any era, because your threads are your clothes. Makes sense, since your clothes were likely put together with a fair number of threads in the first place.

1. An actual cat
   A cool person
2. The bartender
   A police officer

Back in the 1970s, it was the coolest thing in the world to come up with some generalized nicknames for people, and none was more effective than calling people "cats." For instance, if you're heading out for a night, you might go with the cool cat you know from work.

1. A firefighter
   A factory worker
2. A racecar driver
   A drug user

Every so often you'll still run across this term today, though it's not that common anymore. In the '70s, and only as a pejorative, you'd call someone a "burnout" if they were a drug user and you were calling them out on it.

1. When they're trying to be seductive
   When they're trying not to swear
2. When they're building a robot
   When they're angry

The unusual and essentially gibberish word "shazbot" owes its brief 1970s fame to the show "Mork and Mindy." The alien Mork, played by Robin Williams, would swear in his own language by saying "shazbot." People picked it up as a G-rated way to avoid actually swearing.

1. They got burnt.
   It's too hot out.
2. Someone just got brutally insulted.
   They're hungry.

Not a lot of '70s slang made it out of that decade to the present, but the word "burn" is still pretty common. A good burn is what you call a particularly brutal insult leveled at someone else, and the burn is in recognition of that insult.

1. Everything is good.
   Everything is falling apart.
2. Everything has changed.
   No one has any idea what's going on.

The word "copacetic" is a weird one because it sounds like one of those $10 words that's clearly smart and important in some way. It's not. It just means everything is fine, and no one is even really sure where the word came from originally.

1. Dunderhead
   Goblin
2. Hot dog
   Jive turkey

A "jive turkey" was not a good thing to be, by any means. This term generally meant someone was disingenuous and not cool. Maybe you were putting on a front, trying to be cool and trying to fit in where you didn't belong ... that could make you a jive turkey.

1. Do you understand?
   Does this make you happy?
2. Can you explain this further?
   What happens next?

If someone were to ask you, "can you dig it?" what they want to know is if you understand what they're saying, or if you agree with what they're saying. If you don't dig it, then you could probably say so, but a typical response is "I can dig it."

1. Get a job.
   Shut up.
2. Keep doing what you're doing.
   Fight me!

"Keep on truckin'" is one of the most common phrases associated with the '70s, probably due to how little it means. It just means "keep going" or "keep doing what you're doing," with a hint of the '70s fascination with trucker culture tossed in for good measure.

1. You're a nerd.
   You're the teacher's pet.
2. You zoned out.
   You got all As.

Saying that someone is a "space cadet" is an extreme way of saying that their head is in the clouds and then some. You've zoned out completely if you're a space cadet and are no longer paying attention to anything.

1. Dance
   Fight
2. Sleep
   Eat

It was never a bad time to boogie in the '70s, because who doesn't love some dancing? "Boogie shoes" were dancing shoes, "boogie down" just meant to really commit to dancing, and "boogie-oogie-oogie," well, that just sounded good in songs.

1. They'll see you downstairs.
   They'll learn your secrets.
2. They're going to make you dinner.
   They'll see you later.

Back in the '70s, you had limited ways to listen to music, and a popular option involved a record player and a vinyl record. If you wanted to hear more, you had to flip the record. The flipside of the record gave you more, so catching someone "on the flipside" meant you'd see them later.

1. Take a chill pill.
   Ease up on it.
2. Take a cold bath.
   Have a Kit Kat.

When someone is decidedly not chill and they need to get chill, then you might recommend they "take a chill pill." It's a quick and easy way to let someone know that they're being a little uncool and need to take it down a notch.

1. You're warning them to look out.
   You're just kidding with them.
2. You're mocking their intelligence.
   You're angry at them.

You'd say "psyche" to someone if you're messing with them or just joking around. For instance, you might say, "Hey, want this $10 bill?" and then, just before they grab it, you pull it away and say, "psyche!" It's not nice, but it is what it is.

1. Bunk!
   Hard cheese!
2. Right on!
   Flutter!

"Right on" was a pretty ubiquitous phrase in the '70s, and it still gets plenty of use in the present as well. You'd say "right on" to indicate you like something, you approve of it or you just agree with what someone else is saying.

1. This smells.
   This is not very cool at all.
2. I concur!
   I hate you.

"Cool beans" got a lot of play in both the '70s and the '80s, and you'll still hear it every now and then, even today. It's a playful way to say that you concur with someone, you agree with their point and it's good times.

1. Someone who's awkward and bumbling
   Someone who's extra awesome
2. A great party
   Food that makes you feel sick

If someone accuses you of being a "spaz," they're claiming that you're a weird, awkward sort of bumbling character. Maybe you're over-excited or you have no chill. The word fell out of favor, as people started using it as an insult for people with various physical and mental disabilities.

1. It's great!
   It's old-fashioned.
2. It's disgusting.
   It's something you've never seen before.

You definitely don't come across the word "grody" too much these days, but it comes from the same place as "gross." Grody is a reference to something that is disgusting and unpleasant to you. You don't want a grody dinner.

1. They need a serious favor.
   They need money.
2. They need to take some time off.
   They need your opinion.

A favor is just a favor, but a "solid" is a next level sort of favor. Technically, it's probably just a normal favor, but saying it implies that it's something really important you're about to ask. For instance, "I need you to do me a solid and let me sleep on your couch tonight. I got kicked out."

1. A recipe
   A phone number
2. The time
   Some gossip

When you need to know the "skinny," you want the scoop on something. You need the gossip about what's going on, as true or as factual as someone knows it. So if you hear your friend just got arrested, you might say, "What's the skinny on Dave going to jail?"

1. To give the time
   To confirm or agree
2. To give directions
   To brush someone off

"Ten-four" or "10-4" is just trucker slang from back in the day that you can still run across pretty commonly today. It's a part of the 10 code that means "yes," for "affirmative." There are actually many other 10 codes, if you're interested to learn. For example, "10-20" means "Where are you?"

1. Have a rest.
   Shut up.
2. Go for a drive.
   Keep a secret.

The Fonz was famous for saying this on "Happy Days," which would make you think it's '50s slang. However, they seem to have made it up in the '70s and just retroactively decided it was something people said in the '50s.

1. Your dad
   A hot guy
2. Police
   A cool person

This slang still gets tossed around today sometimes, but not as often as it once did. Someone referring to the police, or any law enforcement or government official, could call them "the man." It's generally not meant as a compliment.

1. They're crazy.
   They're boring.
2. They're too serious.
   They're cute.

If someone is a "fry," then they're sort of wacky, sort of crazy, sort of cool. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but you can't always say it's a good thing, either. It's best used when someone does something mind-blowing and bizarre that's worth acknowledging.

1. Get your own Cheez-Its.
   Lay off my Keds.
2. Release the hounds.
   Stop dipping in my Kool-Aid.

Telling someone to mind their own business is pretty dry and blunt. It's much more fun to tell someone to stop dipping in your Kool-Aid in an effort to make the same point. After all, if you have some Kool-Aid, the last thing you need is someone putting their dipper in it.

1. Not paying attention
   Eating lunch
2. Working
   Uninformed

If you're "out to lunch," the lights are on, but no one's home. Physically you're there, but mentally you're somewhere else. Like lunch! Basically, it just means you're being absent-minded and not paying attention at the moment.

1. It's hard.
   It's to the extreme.
2. It's the worst.
   It's loud.

When you do something "to the max," you're doing it in the most extreme way possible. You can party to the max, you can chill to the max, and you can probably nap to the max if you try hard enough.

1. Run!
   Read.
2. Put it away.
   Drop it.

"Book it" means it's time to make a speedy getaway, and that generally means it's time to run. You could use it just to mean you want to leave a place, but there's some haste implied in the term that should be respected.

1. Hard to understand
   Boring
2. Very cool
   A lie

The term "far out" popped up in popular usage back in the 1960s, but it also stayed strong throughout the '70s. When you say something is far out, that's because it impressed you by being very cool in some way.

1. A teacher
   A girl at a disco
2. Someone's mom
   A female police officer

The term "stella" isn't a compliment, but as insults go, it's pretty tame as well. You'd call a girl at a disco a stella if you were being a little rude to her, maybe making fun of her dancing skills or just the idea of being at a disco in general.

1. Bogus
   Fun
2. The best ever
   Over

No one wants to be at a bogue party, because "bogue" means "bogus," and bogus just isn't good at all. Bogue is just the shortened form of bogus, but the spelling is the same length, so it works best when you speak rather than write it out.

1. They told a joke.
   They sped away quickly.
2. They farted.
   They lied.

Slang was never meant to be all that dignified and polite, so, you know, take this for what it's worth. If someone "laid a gasser," they farted. This is probably a good time to book it and leave the room.