Classic Fifties ........... the decade that Rock Music was born

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
Bash	Great party
Big Daddy	An older person
Blast	A good time
Blow off	To defeat in a race (hot-rodders)
Bobbed	Shortened
Bread	Money
Bug	" You bug me" - to bother
Burn rubber	To accelerate hard and fast (hot-rodders)

Cast an eyeball	To look
Cat	A hip person (Beats)
Classy chassis	Great body
Cloud 9	Really happy
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
Cut out	Leave

Daddy-O	Term of address (Beats)
Dig	To understand to approve
Don't have a cow	Don't get so excited
Drag	(hot-rodders) A short car race (Beats) A bore
Duck Tail	Hairstyle of greasers where hair in back is combed to the middle, then with end of comb, make a middle part.

Eyeball	Look around

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

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