Catchphrases, Expressions & Slogans of the 50’s – 60’s – 70’s – 80’s

Here you will find a large assortment of the best known (or long forgotten) slogans, jargons, catchphrases and expressions of the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties (and a few into the 90’s). Some came from TV shows and commercials. Some are actually symbols or hand gestures. Most were passing fads of  long lost pop culture. A select few even actually stuck around or came back after skipping a generation. They were likely, but not limited, to be found on T-shirts, posters, bumper stickers, buttons, plackards – or doodled on school book covers, bedroom doors, closets, walls, high school yearbooks, etc…..I’m sure you get the idea. See how many of these you remember. There are probably a few more that you can think of ….. as I’m sure these will bring back memories of school days, summer fun, bored minds and mischievous adventures. Enjoy!! 🙂

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1. Flower power
2. Have a nice day
3. I’m with stupid –>
4. Sit on it!
5. Sit on a happy face
6. Up your nose with a rubber hose
7. Kiss my grits
8. Bag your face
9. Keep on truckin’
10. Keep on keepin’ on
11. Let’s boogie
12. Sock it to me
13. Disco sucks
14. Easy does it
15. Try it – You’ll like it
16. Let it all hang out
17. Hang ten
18. What’s your sign?
19. It’s your thang
20. You’ve come a long way, baby
21. Here comes da judge
22. Good grief
23. The devil made me do it
24. What you see is what you get
25. Black is beautiful
26. Black power
27. Power to the people
28. Right On!
29. Rock On!
30. Far out man
31. Outta sight!
32. Rad!
33. That was totally rad!
34. That was radical, man!
35. Cool Daddy-O!
36. Dy-no-mite!!
37. Shazzam!
38. Bodacious
39. Totally rad!
40. Gnarly Dude!
41. Funky
42. Kewl!
43. Chill
44. Fab
45. Bitchin’
46. Groovy
47. Feelin’ groovy
48. Psyche!
49. Psychadelic
50. Bummer
51. Mellow out!
52. Hang in there baby
53. Butterflies are free
54. To know me is to love me
55. God is dead
56. Jesus is coming
57. Jesus is coming and boy is he going to be pissed
58. Honk if you love Jesus
59. Jesus saves
60. Save the whales
61. Save water – shower with a friend
62. Save a tree – eat a beaver
63. Real people wear fake furs
64. Express yourself
65. Peace out
66. Think peace!
67. Give peace a chance
68. Make love, not war
69. Make babies, not bombs
70. One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day
71. Ban the bomb
72. War is not healthy for children and other living things
73. Suppose they gave a war and nobody came
74. Draft beer, not boys
75. POW/MIA – You are not forgotten
76. Don’t trust anyone over 30
77. When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns
78. America – Love it or leave it
79. American and proud of it
80. Keep America beautiful
81. Give a hoot – don’t pollute
82. Whip inflation Now [WIN]
83. I am not a crook
84. Eat beans – America needs the gas
85. Get your shit together
86. Question authority
87. I’m OK – You’re so-so
88. Today is the first day of the rest of your life
89. It’s about time, it’s about space, it’s about time to slap your face
90. Nanoo – Nanoo
91. I can’t believe I ate the whole thing
92. Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is
93. Where’s the beef?
94. Live long and prosper
95. May the force be with you
96. Beam me up Scotty – There’s no intelligent life here
97. Virginia is for lovers
98. Love means never having to say you’re sorry
99. TGIF (Thank God It’s Friday)
100. You look mahvelous
101. Well, isn’t that special
102. No soup for you
103. Homey don’t play that!
104. How sweet it it!
105. Stifle!
106. Shit happens
107. Eat shit and die
108. Take it easy
109. Peace, love, dove
110. Catch a wave
111. Life’s a beach
112. Life’s a bitch and then you die!
113. Take this job and shove it
114. Love thy neighbor – but don’t get caught
115. Love is the answer … what was the question?
116. Go nekked! (naked)
117. Cure virginity
118. I’m a virgin (this is a very old shirt)
119. If this van’s a rockin’ – don’t bother knockin’
120. Smile if you’re horny
121. If it feels good – Do it
122. Let’s get it on
123. Turn me on
124. Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll
125. Let’s get wasted
126. Party hardy
127. Suck face
128. We’re movin’ on up
129. Born to be wild
130. Live fast – Die young
131. Can you dig it?
132. Go with the flow
133. Kick out the jams
134. Cruisin’ for a bruisin’
135. Phony Baloney
136. No duh!
137. Freak out
138. Freak-me-out
139. Soulbrother
140. A friend with weed is a friend indeed
141. Where there’s dope, there’s hope
142. Up against the wall, mutherfucka!
143. Turn in, turn on, drop out
144. I get high with a little help from my friends
145. What goes around comes around
146. A mind is a terrible thing to waste
147. If it’s too loud, you’re too old
148. Cancer cures smoking
149. Love is a many-gendered thing
150. Have you hugged your kid today?
151. Baby on board
152. Baby in trunk
153. Nobody on board
154. Choose life
155. No intelligent life down here
156. Read my lips
157. You talkin’ to me?
158. Go ahead – Make my day
159. Don’t have a cow, man
160. Eat my shorts
161. Just say no
162. Just do it
163. Go for it
164. To the max
165. Book it!
166. That’s sick!
167. Don’t mess with ‘the man’
168. Boogie on down the road
169. Born to boogie
170. Born to shop
171. A woman’s place is in the mall
172. Girl’s just want to have fun
173. Girl’s just want to have funds
174. The one who dies with the most toys wins
175. The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys
176. Ain’t that a kick in the butt
177. How YOU doin’?
178. Greed is good
179. Wanna drag?
180. Save an alligator – Shoot a preppy
181. Die yuppie scum
182. Who shot JR?
183. May the force be with you
184. I brake for unicorns
185. Feel my wrath
186. Homework causes brain damage
187. Make me an offer I can’t refuse
188. Mean people suck
189. Hate is not a family value
190. Visualize world peace
191. Visualize whirled peas
192. What’s your tale, nightingale?
193. What’s buzzin, cuzzin?
194. Rattle my cage
195. Pop the clutch
196. Party pooper
197. Paper shaker
198. Catch some zzzzz’s
199. No sweat
200. Meanwhile, back at the ranch
201. Make the scene
202. Let’s make out
203. Made in the shade
204. Crazy, man, crazy!
     
205. Like crazy, like wow!
206. Let’s get crazy
207. Lay a patch
208. Later gator
209. See ya later alligator
210. After while crocodile
211. That’s kookie
212. How’d ya like a knuckle sandwich
213. That’s a kick
214. Let’s haul ass!
215. Grody to the max!
216. Goose it!
217. Get with it
218. That’s the bomb!
     
219. You dig?
     
220. Don’t get all bent out of shape
221. Don’t get your panties in a bunch
222. Floor it!
223. Fire that puppy up!
224. I got dibs on it
225. Cut it out!
226. Warm it up
227. He who smelled it, dealt it
228. 1, 2, 3, beaver (after someone farted)
229. Like crazy, man!
230. I’m cranked!
231. You got creamed
232. You’ve got kooties
233. Cool it!
234. Feel like I’m on cloud 9
235. Classy chassis
236. He’s a cool cat
237. Let’s burn rubber
238. They’re bad news
239. Boob-tube
     
240. In your face!
     
241. Don’t spaz out
     
242. Want not, waste not
243. Good night, John-boy
244. Catch you on the flip-side
245. Feel tha funk
246. Such a ‘putz’
247. What it is
248. What’s up?
249. Airhead
250. Awesome Possum
251. Backatcha!
252. Don’t bogart
     
253. Be There or be square
254. I’m bugged out
255. That’s so bunk
256. Buzz Off!
257. Deadhead
258. What a long strange trip it’s been
     
259. Catch my drift?
260. That’s so cheesy
261. That was really choice man
262. That was funkadelic
263. Choke-n-puke
264. Just kidding!
265. Cool beans
266. Pass the doobie
267. Who cut the cheese?
268. Way decent!
269. Totally dig those shades, man
270. What a doofus
271. What a dork
272. He’s so dorky
273. Are you down with it?
274. No dice!
275. What a drag!
276. That’s a drag, man
277. Faked him out
278. Having a ‘flash back’
279. fer shure (for sure)
280. Just testing
281. Hey foxy lady
282. She’s pretty foxy
283. Foxy mama
284. The “Fuzz”
285. That was a gas
286. Gag me with a spoon
287. What a geek
288. What a nerd
289. Gee whizz
290. That’s messed up!
291. Get real!
292. Gimme Five
293. High 5
294. Gimme some skin
295. That was gnarly!
296. Good vibes
297. That’s gross!
298. Stoners, jocks and nerds
299. Hey man, how’s it hangin’?
300. That’s heavy, man
301. What’s the skinny?
302. What’s crackin?
303. Hubba hubba!
304. Call ya out!
305. I’m trippin’
306. You ain’t got Jack Squat
307. Jive turkey
308. You ain’t jivin’, man
309. Keep it real
310. Killer diller
311. Later days
312. That’s nifty
313. Let it all hang out
314. Time to ‘peel out’
315. Give me the lowdown
316. No way, Jose!
317. That’s ‘off the hook’!
318. She’s a real ‘piece of work’
319. Pop a wheelie
320. Quit raggin’ on me!
321. You got reamed!
322. Say what?
323. Shotgun!
324. Smooth move, exlax!
325. That’s spiffy!
326. I’m gonna split
327. Let’s blow this joint
328. What a square
329. I’m stoked!
330. That was swell!
331. That was sweeeet!
332. Take a chill pill!
333. Ten-four, good buddy!
334. That’s so tubular, man
335. That’s tight, man
336. That’s so wicked!
337. Tight!
338. Toke
339. Totally!
340. That’s sooo trippy!
341. That’s unreal, man
342. That was way cool!
343. What’s happenin?
344. Wipeout!
345. Wowzers!
346. Yeah, right!
347. Barf me out
348. Bite me!
349. Big time!
350. Quit buggin’ me
351. That dude is wiggin’
352. Wannabe
353. Damn skippy!
354. Wherever you go, there you are
355. Don’t worry ….. Be happy

Added 7/8/09

1. Verrry Eeen-ter-es-ting (Very Interesting) from Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In on TV
2. Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls from Laugh-In TV
3. “One ringy-dingy…two ringy-dingies…” said by Lilly Tomlin on Laugh-In TV
4. Go To Your Room
5. You bet your sweet bippy
6. That’s easy for you to say
7. And that’s the truth
8. Ring my chimes
9. Blow in my ear and I’ll follow you anywhere
10. Same bat time ….. same bat channel from TV’s Batman
11. To the moon ….. Alice! said by Jackie Gleason from the Honeymooners TV
12. Bang ….. zoom!

Added 7/20/09

1. Hot-diggity-dog
2. Heavens to Betsy
3. Holy Moly
4. Whoa Nelly!
5. Big Whoop!
6. Whoop-De-Doo!
7. Yippie!
8. Yikes!
9. Eeee Gads!
10. Wanna chew the fat?
11. Saved by the bell
12. Mind your own bees wax!

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