Jazz Slang

Slang from the 1950's and jazz culture. Similar to Beatnik slang. Popular terms through the 1920's to 1980's includes words like baby, bag, bug, cats, chops, crib, daddy-o, dig, fly, funky, hip, jive, pad, scene, wail, and wig out.

She uses a lot of Jazz slang. She called me a cool cat.

by Detective Manders August 6, 2011