OT: OT - Outdated Words That Were Once Popular

[AmeriConn]

Add to the list:

Gnarly

Bees Knees

Hunky Dory

Cool Beans

Freeky Deeky

Jive Turkey

Peepers

Ducky

Right On

The Bomb

 

[jcoton56]

Groovy

 

[Viet Vet]

Cat's Meow

 

[noirwestern]

piffle

 

[HuskyNan]

Far out
Heavy

Freeky deeky?

 

[AmeriConn]

Far out
Heavy

Freeky deeky?

I misspelled “freaky deaky”.

Meaning: Freakish, weird or unusual

freaky-deaky (comparative more freaky-deaky, superlative most freaky-deaky) (slang) Freakish, weird or unusual.

 

[WiseWillie]

Floppy Disk

Walkman

8 Track

Hi-fi

 

[Kaizen]

Service Merchandise

 

[Kaizen]

Pretty soon, CD

I just bought a brand new Hyundai Tucson Hybrid.
And it does not have CD, only has a Sam Data USB flash drive.

 

[Monte]

Brooklyn Dodgers

 

[donalddoowop]

Happy and gay.
Far out.

 

[Boreifs]

Zoot suit

 

[HuskyNan]

Bummer

 

[DEFCONN1]

Yippie skipee
Okie dokie

 

[87Xfer]

Add to the list:

Right On

This one seems to have stood the test of time in a lot of places and audiences. The guy that owned Cherry Street in New Canaan in the early 90s and his son said it a lot, and it seemed unusual. I just realized that I re-adopted it a few years ago, probably from conversations with Silicon Valley bro types and the mountain town bike and ski bums around here. And my 16 YO daughter says it's OK for me to say. I think I'll keep it.

 

[WiseWillie]

Bummer

Hold on. I still use bummer. Count me old.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Buttmunch

 

[AidanFan20]

23 skidoo!!

 

[Magy Cannon]

Xerox
ba bow
oleo
uncouth

 

[my2cents]

Hip

 

[Kaizen]

When I was in college, those two companies: Eastman Kodak an Xerox are the best for jobs.
Now, Kodak and Xerox are barely surviving with market cap. less than $500M.

 

[AmeriConn]

Xerox
ba bow
oleo
uncouth

How about “carbon copy”

 

[CL82]

Carnsarn it!

 

[Bigboote]

Hold on. I still use bummer. Count me old.

Yeah, my first thought, too.

 

[Dogstar]

Chill out
My Pad
My old lady or my Mama ( Gf or wife)
Give me five
Solid
A Flick (movie)
The man
Hit me on the hip (page me)
Peace. (I still use this one)
Square
Turkey
Dynamite
Going to A Go Go or juke joint
Outta of sight
I'm Fly. (Well dressed)
Cloud nine or lifted
Wolf tickets
Iron Horse ( subway)
The Hawk. ( Ice cold winter breeze)
The Dragon (bad beath)
The pigs, 5-0 or Po-Po
Dig it
Truckin
Clobber
And many more....I miss those good ole days

 

[dvegas]

When I was in college, those two companies: Eastman Kodak an Xerox are the best for jobs.
Now, Kodak and Xerox are barely surviving with market cap. less than $500M.

more relevant here is General Electric Capital Corporation, aka GECC. They are just GE now because they lost all their capital!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

I appreciate many of these "old" words, but I have to admit my first thought on reading the title was words from truly past eras that come up in old books. Egad, for example. I have been reading some mysteries dating to the 1920's, and there have been words I have had to look up and they come up in my definitions as "historical".

Also amazing in reading from another era was the casual use of words we now consider slurs. Not always, though sadly often, used in precisely that way.

 

[Skeets]

Service Merchandise

I used to shop there. With stores locking their merchandise behind glass, that business model is making a comeback.

Question isn't "The bomb" a little too new to be on the list? FYI, I'm a little uneasy talking about bombs online in this day and age. No telling if AI is going to flag this.

 

[CL82]

I used to shop there. With stores locking their merchandise behind glass, that business model is making a comeback.

Question isn't "The bomb" a little too new to be on the list? FYI, I'm a little uneasy talking about bombs online in this day and age. No telling if AI is going to flag this.

 

[JstVisiting]

Count me old.

Bummer, dude