They mean clothes. So if someone walks up to you and says, “Nice threads!” then say thank you because it’s a compliment.

And do show respect when addressing someone older.

It’s not what you think, since this means someone or something that’s fun or fine.

To be fair, you’ll hardly hear this today even from the boomer generation. Is it time to bring it back?

Don’t ever get on a boomer’s nerves or they’ll feel hacked off. No, they won’t hack you to pieces but they are the generation with all those gory, horror movies….

This just means they are angry, mad, or upset.

So once they’re hacked off, they could also flip a wig, which means practically the same thing.

They can probably hack your wig off….

They used to say “Wow what a cat!” or “He’s a cool cat.” because… cat means a cool guy.

Do you remember the 1970 American animated romantic musical comedy film by Disney called “The Aristocats”?

Watch it and you’ll understand.

This one’s fairly obvious, and yes it still means cool, but no one under 55 has ever used it seriously anymore.

Makes one miss the old Scooby Doo cartoon.

It was an era of cool cars with big engines and freedom was fresh so the guys enjoyed laying black stripes on the ground with those big V8 engines.

So to lay a patch literally means a burnout, those black marks from smoking tires.

We’ve all heard this one somewhere. If you were called square, then you were uncool.

Don’t bother hanging out with the jocks and the cheerleaders. You won’t get invited to those house parties.

It’s the same question as, “What’s your problem?”

“Bag” could also refer to something a person is interested in like: “Using baby boomer slang isn’t really my bag.”

There were no fancy gadgets and expensive cell phones then so driving down the highway meant thinking of ways to pass the time.

How about a game counting burned out headlights?

And if you needed to contact someone, you went to a payphone, or you run back home and use the phone to dial a home number.

That’s why people then had coins in their pockets, when they needed to drop a dime.

No one knows why they made it 2 words when they could have just called it milk.

Then again it’s more specific since you can buy goat milk.

Back when it came out, TV was thought to be a mindless activity for the mindless masses.

Boob, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a stupid, inept, or blundering person; a fool.”

So it’s like saying boobs were happy to sit in front of the TV set, filling their brains with useless information.

If a show is a drag, or a concert is a drag, then it’s just plain boring.

That same feeling you get attending a lecture of a boring professor.

If you do something for kicks, then you do it for pleasure. Like getting your kicks on Route 66.

So what’s your hobby?

It’s supposed to be an insult but it does sound funny. Of course, don’t be using this anymore, unless you want to get in a fight.

This term refers to a bald person.

This term was used to refer to being honest. If someone doubted what you just said, you’d say “word from the bird” as a way to tell them that you are trustworthy.

The bird is the word.