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The Outsiders: Slang Vocabulary

Objective: Students will draw a picture and write a sentence to represent the slang vocabulary used in the novel The Outsiders.

|Vocabulary Word, Definition, and Book Sentence |Sentence |Colored Picture |

|A’woofin | | |

|Definition: kidding or teasing | | |

|Sentence: “’Ain’t you about to freeze to death, Pony?’ ‘You ain’t a’woofin’,’ I said, | | |

|rubbing my bare arms between drags on my cigarette” (Hinton 49). | | |

|Bop | | |

|Definition: rumbler, or fighter, to the Brumly gang | | |

|Sentence: “I mean, you take a guy that calls a rumble “bop-action,” and you can tell he | | |

|isn’t real educated” (Hinton 122). | | |

|Crocked | | |

|Definition: drunk | | |

|Sentence: “He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive. If Dally was drunk and in| | |

|a dangerous mood…” (Hinton 54). | | |

|Fuzz | | |

|Definition: police | | |

|Sentence: “’How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know where| | |

|we are? What…’” (Hinton 71). | | |

|Icebox | | |

|Definition: refrigerator | | |

|Sentence: “I hunted through the icebox and found some eggs” (Hinton 92). | | |

|Pickled | | |

|Definition: drunk | | |

|Sentence: “Five Socs were coming straight at us, and from the way they were staggering I | | |

|figured they were reeling pickled” (Hinton 50). | | |

|Snooker | | |

|Definition: a game that is a variant of pool | | |

|Sentence: “’Gonna go play a little snooker and hunt up a poker game…’” (Hinton 43). | | |

|Turf | | |

|Definition: territory | | |

|Sentence: “Once we even found Tim Shepard, leader of the Shepard gang and far from his own | | |

|turf, reading the morning paper in the armchair” (Hinton 93). | | |

|Blade | | |

|Definition: short for switchblade, a type of pocketknife | | |

|Sentence: “’Look!’ He showed me the handkerchief, reddened as if by magic. ‘Did they pull a | | |

|blade on you?’” (Hinton 10). | | |

|Bum | | |

|Definition: used as an adjective to mean wretched, worthless | | |

|Sentence: “’And even if you are mad at us, that’s no reason to go walking the streets with | | |

|these bums’” (Hinton 41). | | |

|Dig | | |

|Definition: understand, appreciate | | |

|Sentence: “Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That’s gold” (Hinton 154). | | |

|Heater | | |

|Definition: gun | | |

|Sentence: “I didn’t know about the Brumly boys, but I knew Shepard’s gang were used to | | |

|fighting with anything they could get their hands on—bicycle chains, blades, pop bottles, | | |

|pieces of pipe, pool sticks, or sometimes even heaters” (Hinton 122). | | |

|Madras | | |

|Definition: a light, cotton fabric of various weaves, used for shirts | | |

|Sentence: “He had on a madras shirt. I can still see it. Blue madras” (Hinton 8). | | |

|Savvy | | |

|Definition: “Understand?” | | |

|Sentence: “…It’s just because you’re the baby—I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?’” (Hinton | | |

|19). | | |

|Tuff | | |

|Definition: cool, sharp | | |

|Sentence: “Tough and tuff are two different words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff means | | |

|cool, sharp—like a tuff-looking Mustang or a tuff record. In our neighborhood both are | | |

|compliments” (Hinton 14). | | |

|Weed | | |

|Definition: cigarette | | |

|Sentence: “Two-Bit grinned and lit a cigarette. ‘Anyone want a weed?’” (Hinton 29). | | |

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