Revised, Expanded and Illustrated!
STRAIGHT FROM
THE FRIDGE, DAD
M
UCH OF THE SLANG popularly associated with the hippie generation of the
sixties actually dates back before WW2, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues
street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex and drinking. Why talk when you can
beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue and why snore when you can call some
A D I C T I O N A RY O F H I P S T E R S L A N G
hogs? You’re not drunk – you’re just plumb full of stagger-juice and your skin isn’t pasty, it’s
just café sunburn. Need a black coffee? That’s a shot of java, nix on the moo juice.
MAX DÉCHARNÉ
Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir
and exploitation films, blues, country and rock’n’roll lyrics and other related sources from
the 1920s to the 1960s, STRAIGHT FROM THE FRIDGE, DAD lays down the righteous
jive, perfect for all you hipsters, B-girls, weedheads, moochers, shroud-tailors, bandrats,
top studs, gassers, snowbirds, trigger-men, grifters and long gone daddies.
• • • • • • • •
‘If you are the kind of hep cat who harbours a burning urge to gas the slobs, then the righteous Max
is the man. He shoots the works to fascinating and often hilarious effect’ – ESQUIRE
‘Now there’s a new way of talking. Or rather, there is an old way of talking ripe for revival. Jive has
returned. It’s all thanks to Max Décharné’s recently published Straight from the Fridge, Dad – a
Dictionary of Hipster Slang, the lexicon for the hep cats of London’s most swinging trotteries’
– Jack Malvern, THE TIMES
‘An afternoon spent poring through a vocabulary-building guide for your inner hipster is time well
spent. In Straight From The Fridge, Dad, Décharné has compiled the most righteous slang from
film noir, blues, country, jazz and pulp fiction; with annotations and examples galore, it’s
guaranteed to turn a rube into a real wild child. Along the way, you’ll learn the origins of dude,
the evolution of cool, and the five meanings of ace. Don’t be schmo from Kokomo, ball the
jack and go the whole bundle. Fridge will pull you dead to the curb.’ – ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
POP CULTURE
AVAILABLE 22
nd
OCTOBER 2009
UK £16.99
www.straightfromthefridgedad.com
ISBN 978-1-84243-288-4
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