Swing Joined: 1/23/06
Word: Cool Beans
Definition: A phrase that was a substitute for "radical," "great" "I like that" or when you've got nothing else to say in the 1980s.
Sentence:
Person A: {Energetically) I just got my first gig at a wedding.
Person B: (With puzzlement) Singing with your band?
Person A: Yeah!
Person B: Cool Beans.
Person A: I think so too.
Person B: Really totally... A large batch of Cool Beans.
Word: Whitnid
Definition: Substance abuse
Sentence: Went out wiv me mates this arvo and got totally whitnid! (cockney)
Translation: I had a convivial afternoon with some acquaintances but imbibed a little too much!
Word: Bodacious
Meaning: When a man enjoys the curves on a member of the opposite sex.
Sentence: It was indeed very wack of us to remove ourselves from that hizzy of bodacious members of the opposite sex!
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/05
Word: Bosanova
Meaning: Something cool
Sentence: This pizza is bosanova, dude!
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
I'm still a tad confused here. From reading the rules, it seems that we are supposed to think up our own original words. But there seems to be a mixture of posts in this thread. Some are original words and some are actual phrases used in the 80s. Which is it supposed to be? I would assume we would have to make up our own words because posting already existing words/phrases doesn't call for much creativity.
I was wondering the same thing, FindYourGrail. Just to be safe, I did both.
I made more original ones because I figured those were the ones you were supposed to make.
Okay, my last one I promise. If you are only allowed one, I think I want to choose my BoyGeorging, or this one, but if you can have more than one entry, here is another.
Word: Hasselhoffed
Meaning: To overcome a great obstical. (Example: Hasselhoff knocking down the Berlin Wall with the power of his music.)
Sentence: David hasselhoffed as he landed the final blow on Goliath.
Updated On: 4/25/06 at 10:59 PM
word: Tubular
definition: Something that is very cool, awesome and neat.
sentence: "Dude, that concert was TUBULAR!"
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
Word: Funktastic
Definition: Super-cool, very exciting, extremely pleasing.
Sentence: I loved new coke; it was funktastic!
Gross Me Out the Door
(1)Excl. Very Disgusting.
Yuppie
(1)Noun. A person who is a white collar worker who has possessions of an expensive nature and flaunts them. ie. "You see that guy in the Saab, he's such a yuppie." Origins trace back to the beginning of the decade when the "Yuppie Handbook" was written identifying the breed. Yuppie came from the acronym YUP, which stood for Young Urban Proffesional.
To The Max
(1)Adj. Used in conjunction with any adjective that you want to emphasize. ie "That chick is annoying to the max!"
* Gross me out the door.. Glen is a yuppie to the max!
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
Word: Reaganomics
Definition: The economic policies associated with the presidency of Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), included reduced spending for social programs, supply-side tax cuts, deregulation and marketization of decision making, devolution of social policies back to the states, and the privatization of governmental services.
Sentence: Reaganomics is about as thoughtful as my dirty urine in a fish bowl.
The days of 80s culture are all contained in a few simple words but only one has been selected to define the era of big hair, neon spandex, and the Rubik's cube.
After much deliberation, The winner of the “Define the 80’s” contest is Gil Varod who will be attending the OPENING NIGHT OF THE WEDDING SINGER tomorrow at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.
And the Winning 80’s Word is…..
Word: to Bueller
Definition: to be able to get through a seemingly-impossible situation, the kind of situation that is so implausible it could only be written by John Hughes.
Sentence: What do you mean I can't skip work with an excuse about going to visit my "cousin" Michael J. Fox, then get into Shea Stadium by prentending I'm Jon Bon Jovi, be invited to throw the first pitch via a total snafu involving a Cabbage Patch Kid bribe, and then take Bo Jackson's Limo home... I can totally Bueller that.
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