1. A late-night phone call
   A hip parent
2. A new significant other
   Something disappointing or depressing

This one never really fell out of fashion, although "downer" came to rival it in popularity. Today, it tends to be more ironic. Deploy it in a deadpan tone when a friend is going on way too long about a minor grievance. "Dude, that's such a bummer that you can't leave work early to go to the gym." They'll get the point.

1. To dance
   To converse sincerely
2. An uncool person
   A soldier

If you want to boogie, you want to dance. For example: This song always makes me want to hit the floor and boogie like there's no tomorrow!

1. One's food
   One's home
2. One's truck
   One's van

We suppose your crib could be your van if you lived in it, but, in general, it was your home. For example: We went back to my crib after the concert.

1. Are you decent?
   Are you at home?
2. Do you understand?
   Do you feel okay?

This is one of the flagship slang terms of the 1960s and 1970s. This means, "Do you understand what I'm saying?" For example: I can only meet you after my meeting, which ends at 8 p.m. You dig?

1. Untrustworthy
   Loyal
2. Smart
   Sexy

A good-looking person of either gender could be "a fox." "Foxy" was only applied to women, though. For example: My uncle's new girlfriend is surprisingly foxy.

1. Disinformation
   The police
2. To make out
   To run away or leave quickly

The "fuzz" was a generic or collective term for the police. For example: We have to turn the music down, the fuzz is at the front door and told us we're violating noise ordinance laws.

1. Good; cool
   To clown around
2. A great idea
   Angry

So, in this scenario (1970s America) "bad" actually means "good." You'd use it to describe something cool. For example: That's one bad sports car you're driving!

1. A cop or authority figure
   A drag queen
2. A mechanic
   A crazy uncle

"The Man" refers to authority figures, especially in contrast to the counter-culture movement. For example: Can you believe that all those people are working for the Man?

1. Awesome!
   Awful!
2. Get lost!
   What's up?

Did astronomy buffs come up with this one, after grooving on how cool is it to see galaxies that are light years away? Maybe not, but that's our theory, and we're sticking to it! Either way, the universe is far out!

1. To make something awesome or cool
   To run or move fast
2. To rat someone out
   To smoke a whole pack of cigarettes

This means to go fast. It's not to be confused with the police slang for "process into jail." Example: We were late for the concert, so we were booking it down Interstate 10.

1. Great
   Plump or cuddly
2. Oversexed
   Stupid

"Peachy keen" (which was also shortened to "peachy") meant that something was great. For example: Sharon asked me how I was doing, and I said, "Peachy keen!"

1. A disappointment
   A long-nursed resentment
2. To go without food for a long time
   To overeat

Today, to "drag" someone means to embarrass them in public. But in the '70s, it meant that something was a disappointment or something that brought you down. For example: Can you believe the power is out again? What a drag!

1. Hip
   Disturbing
2. Speedy
   Loud

"Groovy" was an important term in the '60s and 1970s. It meant mellow, hip and extremely cool. For example: Have you seen their apartment? The decor is groovy! There's so much macrame!

1. To trick someone
   A good time
2. A doctor
   To refuel your car

"Psyche" means to trick someone. It also can be used as "to psyche someone out." For example: Pysche! We were just pretending to be the fuzz!

1. Become exceedingly agitated and anxious
   Dance excellently
2. Drive very fast
   Study extremely hard

This one is still used today, and means the same thing. There's one main difference. In the 1970s, psychedelic drugs were often involved, and a "bad trip" could be very scary and cause you to freak out.

1. A cool man
   A cool woman
2. An undercover officer
   Sneaking around

This came from African-American slang of the mid-20th century. "A real cool cat" was invariably a man, and eventually, "cool" got dropped (because it was just understood.) For example: This cat always shows up wearing the finest shades!

1. A cool person
   An uncool person
2. To finish school
   To get in a fight

Although every generation has words to divide the cool from the uncool, "square" meant something a little different to the hippies than "nerd" does today. Often, it had to do with never having done drugs and with still being part of capitalist, consumerist world. If you were square, you weren't part of the counter-culture.

1. An ambitious person
   A very skinny person
2. To run nude through a public place
   To make out

Streaking was a prank or a form or political protest in the 1970s. How, exactly, did running through a public event in your birthday suit effect social change? Frankly, we're still trying to figure that out.

1. A parent
   A square
2. To arrest someone
   To take a hit off a joint

"Toking" was taking a hit or puff of a marijuana product. Now, we just call it smoking. For all you music buffs, remember that Steve Miller will always be a "midnight toker." If you don't understand, please go listen to "The Joker" by the Steve Miller Band, and then finish this quiz.

1. Hard to believe
   Fantastic
2. Very ambitious
   Really skinny

We'd call this another synonym for "cool," but really, it's stronger than that. For example: When you asked your friend how the Rolling Stones concert was, she was like, "Dude! It was outta sight!"

1. Getting lectured
   Lecturing someone
2. Drinking to excess
   Using psychedelic drugs

Today, the definition of "trippin'" has changed to mean having anxiety or bad feelings for any reason. But in the 1970s, when psychedelics were very popular, it meant specifically that someone was using them, to either good or bad emotional effect. For example: Jane is staring at the wall because she's trippin' and thinks the wall is breathing.

1. An expensive home
   Something serious
2. Ugly
   A difficult friend

Something that's "heavy" is serious. For example: I'm sorry that during the past two days, you lost your job and your girlfriend left you. That's super heavy.

1. To call someone late at night
   To disappear from someone's life
2. A nervous, jittery, clumsy person
   A harsh, authoritative person

Not-so-fun fact: This term is actually pretty darn insensitive (and if you use it, you should probably ban it from your vocabulary from here on out.) It's a shortening of "spastic," meaning a person who can't control their muscles (having spasms.) This became a derogatory term for a person who was a ball of nervous energy and a little clumsy.

1. Fool or loser
   Couch or bed
2. To drive slow
   To take it easy

Before "loser!" became a catchall insult, we had "chump." Often male, he's the guy whose toast always lands butter-side-down.

1. Awesome
   Alone
2. Frightening
   Strange

This was another synonym for "very cool." If you had a "boss car," you probably had a Mustang or a Corvette. Sadly, you weren't going to be able to afford gas for it for long. Just google "1970s oil crisis."

1. Apartment or home
   Best friend
2. Job
   Steady significant other

"Pad" was a sexy term for home. If you got picked up (in the romantic way) by someone in the 1970s, they likely invited you back to their "pad."

1. A drug user
   A car enthusiast
2. Smart
   A salon worker

This usually refers to someone who uses non-hard and psychedelic drugs. For example: Much to my surprise, my mom was a head when she was in high school.

1. Keep evading the draft
   Stay high
2. Don't screw up
   Hang in there

"Truckin'" referred to a way of walking with intention (the opposite of strolling.) "Keep on truckin'" essentially meant to keep moving forward or hang in there. For example: Despite the hardships that come your way, sometimes you just have to keep on truckin'.

1. A piece of chewing gum
   A handsome guy
2. To ask for an item
   To forget a responsibility

The classic use of this phrase was, "Can I bum a smoke?" It essentially meant, "Hey there, can I please have a cigarette/a drag of a cigarette/piece of gum/after dinner mint/extra quarter for laundry?" You'd use it to ask for a small item, either from a stranger or someone you know.

1. To act like a cool guy
   To steal people's significant others
2. To keep something to yourself, especially a joint
   To avoid bars and clubs

This is a reference to Humphrey Bogart. While it's not totally clear exactly where it started, it appears to reference the ever-present cigarette dangling from his lips. Did he share the cigarette? Never. It came to mean hogging a joint. For example: Buddy, stop bogarting the joint! We all pitched in for it!

1. The county jail
   A curvy/sexy woman
2. The government
   A wall of lies

Everyone who knows this one probably does so because of the Commodores song by the same name. It's a classic '70s anthem, in praise of shapely women.

1. An undercover cop
   A very studious person
2. A favor
   A square person

A solid is a favor or gracious act. For example: If I die before you do, can you do me a solid and throw out all my old diaries before my family can read them?

1. To run fast
   To talk deceptively
2. To dance
   To swim

To jive means to chit-chat, although it can also mean to be nonsensical or deceptive when used in the form "jiving." For example, you might say: I hope you're not jiving! I need to know where the key is!

1. Cool, sharp
   Hard, cold
2. Beautiful
   Educated

It's hard to run out of ways to say "cool," isn't it? This one was popularized by "The Outsiders," who tells readers, "'Tuff' and 'tough' are two different words. In my neighborhood, both are compliments."

1. Cool
   In the know
2. Groovy
   All of the above

The term "hip" and "hipster" actually appear to date from the Prohibition era, when alcohol was illegal, but the cool people carried liquor in a flask on their hips. This made them "hip" or "hipsters." The kids of the '70s brought the term "hip" back in a big way. It wasn't until the 2000s that "hipster" made a reappearance, but this time around, it isn't much of a compliment!