Popular 'slang' words used in the 1920's:

Attaboy - well done!; also Attagirl!

Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, idea; the ultimate

Breezer - an convertible car

Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar to bee's knees; The best or greatest, wonderful.

Cheaters - Eyeglasses

Ciggy - cigarette

Dolled up - dressed up

Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls

Dumb Dora - a stupid female

Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol

Glad rags - "going out on the town" clothes

Hit on all sixes - to perform 100 per cent; as "hitting on all six cyclinders"

Putting on the Ritz - after the Ritz hotel in Paris; doing something in high style

Spifflicated - Drunk. The same as canned, corked, tanked, primed, scrooched, jazzed, zozzled, plastered, owled, embalmed, lit, potted, ossified or fried to the hat.

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