Peel Your Ears While I Vomit on the Table: Learn to Speak Hipster
The word 'hipster' is wildly misused, (including by me). It actually refers to cool jazz-era cats from the 20s to the 60s. You need to know your groceries, so check this collection of their genuine hipster slang.
From the Guardian, who snaffled it in turn from a book called Straight From the Fridge, A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Decharne.
(On a related note: we, and by we I mean I, need a new term to refer to scene-y people in lower Manhattan between the ages of 18 and 40. You know, the ones who used to go to Beatrice and the Jane and are referred to as hipsters even though they never use any of the below phraseology. Place suggestions in the box. Thanks.)
BARBECUE:
A hot-looking lady.
BOIL MY CABBAGE:
Blues slang for sex.
BUCKET OF BLOOD:
A spit and sawdust bar.
BUNK HABIT:
Lounging around while others smoke opium, and inhaling the fumes.
BUTTER-AND-EGG:
Out-of-town sucker, free with his money.
CHICAGO OVERCOAT:
Coffin.
CHICAGO LIGHTNING:
Gunfire.
COLD MEAT PARTY
A funeral.
COMMUNITY JOY RIDE
A druggie party.
DEAD SOLDIERS
Empty beer bottles.
DIME DROPPER
An informer (someone who drops a dime in payphone to call the cops).
FACE LIKE A RUSSIAN FLAG
Embarrassed, ie red.
FLORIDA HONEYMOON
A dirty weekend.
FREE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT
Out of work, unemployed.
HAEMOPHILIA OF THE LARYNX
A blabbermouth.
HARLEM SUNSET
Knife wounds.
HAVE ONE ON THE CITY
Drink some water.
HOT SQUAT/JUICE JOLT
The electric chair.
JACK RABBIT BLOOD
Habitual prison escaper.
KNOW YOUR GROCERIES
Be hip, aware, alert to the situation.
LONGHAIRS
Non-hipsters, squares, lovers of straight music.
MATTRESS ROUTE
Sleeping your way to the top.
MOOSE-EYES
A leering dude.
OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE
Vintage liquor or wine.
PREPARING BAIT
Putting on makeup.
PULLING THE DUTCH ACT
Committing suicide.
RIDING ACADEMY
Brothel.
ROUNDHEELS
Party girl (deriving from a supposed natural ability to regularly fall over backwards).
THE SCRAMBLE EGG TREATMENT
A sex show.
SCREWED, BLUED AND TATTOOED
A wild night out.
SINHOUND
A priest.
SNIFFING ARIZONA PERFUME
Going to the gas chamber.
STRAIGHT FROM THE FRIDGE
Cool. Obviously.
TAKEN OFF THE PAYROLL
Killed/assassinated.
THAT VIBRATES ME
I'm impressed, I really like it.
THROW THAT DIRT IN YOUR FACE
Being buried.
TORSO-TOSSER
Hootchie-coochie dancer, stripper.
VOMIT ON THE TABLE
Speak up.
WEEK AT THE KNEES
Unsuccessful courtship.
YOUR ROOF IS LEAKING
You're a bit crazy.