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The Outsiders: Slang Vocabulary
Objective: Students will draw a picture and write a sentence to represent the slang vocabulary used in the novel The Outsiders.
Vocabulary Word, Definition, and Book Sentence / Sentence / Colored PictureA’woofin
Definition: kidding or teasing
Sentence: “’Ain’t you about to freeze to death, Pony?’ ‘You ain’t a’woofin’,’ I said, rubbing my bare arms between drags on my cigarette” (Hinton 49).
Bop
Definition: rumbler, or fighter, to the Brumly gang
Sentence: “I mean, you take a guy that calls a rumble “bop-action,” and you can tell he isn’t real educated” (Hinton 122).
Crocked
Definition: drunk
Sentence: “He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive. If Dally was drunk and in a dangerous mood…” (Hinton 54).
Fuzz
Definition: police
Sentence: “’How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know where we are? What…’” (Hinton 71).
Icebox
Definition: refrigerator
Sentence: “I hunted through the icebox and found some eggs” (Hinton 92).
Pickled
Definition: drunk
Sentence: “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggering I figured they were reeling pickled” (Hinton 50).
Snooker
Definition: a game that is a variant of pool
Sentence: “’Gonna go play a little snooker and hunt up a poker game…’” (Hinton 43).
Turf
Definition: territory
Sentence: “Once we even found Tim Shepard, leader of the Shepard gang and far from his own turf, reading the morning paper in the armchair” (Hinton 93).
Blade
Definition: short for switchblade, a type of pocketknife
Sentence: “’Look!’ He showed me the handkerchief, reddened as if by magic. ‘Did they pull a blade on you?’” (Hinton 10).
Bum
Definition: used as an adjective to mean wretched, worthless
Sentence: “’And even if you are mad at us, that’s no reason to go walking the streets with these bums’” (Hinton 41).
Dig
Definition: understand, appreciate
Sentence: “Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold” (Hinton 154).
Heater
Definition: gun
Sentence: “I didn’t know about the Brumly boys, but I knew Shepard’s gang were used to fighting with anything they could get their hands on—bicycle chains, blades, pop bottles, pieces of pipe, pool sticks, or sometimes even heaters” (Hinton 122).
Madras
Definition: a light, cotton fabric of various weaves, used for shirts
Sentence: “He had on a madras shirt. I can still see it. Blue madras” (Hinton 8).
Savvy
Definition: “Understand?”
Sentence: “…It’s just because you’re the baby—I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?’” (Hinton 19).
Tuff
Definition: cool, sharp
Sentence: “Tough and tuff are two different words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff means cool, sharp—like a tuff-looking Mustang or a tuff record. In our neighborhood both are compliments” (Hinton 14).
Weed
Definition: cigarette
Sentence: “Two-Bit grinned and lit a cigarette. ‘Anyone want a weed?’” (Hinton 29).