Word: chick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Chavez does not recommend it, some of his customers have risked pinches or scratches by wearing pop-tops over their bare skin. "The first topless chick to try a vest," he says, "caught her right nipple in a ring. I think it looked groovy, but I can recognize the snags...
...Chick' "; "Fight the Fags-Boycott the Midi"; "I Am Not a Barbie Doll." Stewardesses protesting regulations that prevent women with children from keeping their jobs carried banners reading: "Storks Fly-Why Can't Mothers...
Anyone who goes to Australia thinking he speaks the Queen's English is in for a shock called "Strine," meaning Australian-the cockney-like vernacular that most Aussies spout. Through the mysterious medium of Strine, magic comes out mare chick, a terrace house is a terror souse, house-proud is assprad, and sacks of potatoes are sex apertaters. Such metamorphoses particularly baffle Australia's many visiting Asian students, who arrive Down Under speaking textbook Hong Kong or Pakistani English, only to confront linguistic anarchy on their very first gloria sty (glorious day) in the country...
...hears ostensibly sane Aussies discussing painting styles like mon (modern) and airpstrek (abstract). At lunchtime in the campus canteen, the visitor may hear a local student ask: "Gottiny semmitches?" "Air," says the counter girl. "Emeny jiwant?" Student: "Gimme utter martyr and an airman pickle." Thanks to the mare chick of communications, the girl duly produces a tomato and a ham and pickle sandwich...
...even "where it's at." Fresh not long ago, they are now unspeakable for those who would sound current. Things aren't "groovy" or "cool" any more -these two resurrected favorites of the '40s are dead again. The Women's Liberation Movement has consigned "chick" to outer darkness; say "sister" or holler uncle. Even "like"-as in "like you know how it is, man"-is on the blacklist. So is "man," for that matter. And the angry protester who still cries "Right on" risks being right off; the old Black Panther slogan has been co-opted...