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Show I Every generation ''cruises" with new slang 1 p.g. hlahJ By MARCELLA WALKER New terminology is coming forth nil the time from the teenage part of the population. One of the best I've heard is one that came out this summer. We have a really neat bunch of kids on our street and the surrounding neighborhood and they like to get together in the evenings and talk, play games or have parties. (They have lots of parties.) I'll say to my teenage girls, "Where are you going?" and they reply, "We're gonna cruise lawn." They also "cruise" the Sno Shak or cruise 7-11. When I was young a cruise was something you went on when you were rich and could afford an ocean voyage to the Caribbean or the Mediterranean. Sometimes we would say cruise around, meaning we would drive around. We never "cruised lawn." When they do this they sit around, usually under Chadwick's apple tree, and gab for hours and make plans for more parties. We used to do the same thing but we called it "sitting around talking and making plans." When the movie "On Golden drink as "hnrn ' sometimes wp Z i That was "queer ?W ( wore those colors v7 as a "queer." TbSM word for "gay" u88 . designates becaZ S. grandmothers nam. a"d like it. nanand f . of the termini w the same as RloH do we LyllA & ayasmuchSH ' Wesaidccol,andthe " say wild and Bind "it's a blast" andT' a blast" dthe)Si; So things n , some things change dsvnUcaUeachoC' J as a derogatory term i choice descriptive brothers but?, 1 among them. ; I guess it all boils ( notjustahotdoS' Pond" came out and we saw it I about flipped when the young boy said they liked to "cruise chicks and suck face." I was alarmed and embarassed at the same time. What was this world coming to? Now my kids say it. My son used to say he was going to "cruise chicks" and we used to call it "Drag Main." The object was the same. We were looking for good looking guys and they were looking for good looking girls. We used to "neck," but we did not "suck face." My little brother heard me use the word "neck" around the house a lot so one day he said he knew what it meant. And so I sneered a little and asked him what he thought it meant and he said it was when a boy puts his arms around a girl's neck. I laughed my head off but I could see how he got that impression. We used to make "clum checks" which meant we drove past our boyfriend or our current heartthrob's house to see if he was home or out catting around. Some of the high school age boys are now called cowboys. I suppose they dress like cowboys but I wonder how many of them ever see a horse. The only thing different is ' that they are a little out of the main stream being distinguishable by their clothing. The athletes are often called "jocks." No one would have dared use that word when we were young in the '50's. The closest you'd dare come to such a word was "jockey," a guy who rides in horse races. During the Olympics they showed an Olympic art show in Los Angeles. One of the items was made out of jock straps. Can you believe that? The kids refer to those of their number who use drugs or smoke or |