STRAIGHT
FROM THE
FRIDGE, DAD
A DICTIONARY OF
HIPSTER SLANG
NEW REVISED, UPDATED AND
FULLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION
Much of the slang popularly associated with the
hippie generation of the sixties actually dates
MAX DÉCHARNÉ
back before WW2, hijacked in the main from
‘If you enjoy watching noir films,
jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating
listening to blues or jazz, reading pulp
to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you
can beat your chops, why eat when you can line
novels or poring over certain song
your flue and why snore when you can call some
lyrics, this guide to hep as it was
hogs? You’re not drunk - you’re just plumb full of
spoken through the first half of the
stagger-juice and your skin isn’t pasty, it’s just last century, will prove indispensable’
cafe sunburn. Need a black coffee? That’s a shot
– Independent
of java, nix on the moo juice.
‘ The lexicon for the hep cats of
Containing thousands of examples of hipster
slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and
London’s most swinging trotteries’
exploitation films, blues, country and rock’n’roll – Times
lyrics and other related sources from the 1920s
‘Max is the man. He shoots the works
to the 1960’s, Straight From the Fridge, Dad
lays down the righteous jive, perfect for all you
to fascinating and often
hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-
hilarious effect’
tailors, bandrats, top studs, gassers, snowbirds, – Esquire
trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.
£18.99 FLEXIBIND
Max Décharné was born in England,
AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2009
and has flung various books and
ISBN: 978-1-84243-288-4
records at the public, and travelled ‘Crown Quarto’ Format
to a variety of countries, firstly as a (246 X 189mm) 224pp
member of Gallon Drunk, and since
94Colour Illustrations
1995 with his band The Flaming
RIGHTS: WORLD
Stars, in an effort to spread peace,
goodwill and partial deafness among
the youth of the world. He still
divides his drinking time between
London and Berlin.
www.noexit.co.uk/titles/hipsterslang
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