There was a podcast episode years back about how large quicksand loomed in popular culture for a whole generation, before vanishing as a concept almost completely.
And sure enough, I remember as a kid in the 80s worrying about stumbling into quicksand while wandering around the bushes in rural Canada.
Then I forgot about it as a concept until I heard it on that one episode, and I haven't heard it since.
Discombobulate
Surplus
Phat! As in cool. Haven't heard that one in wellllll over a decade.
Crunk
Floppy (disk)
Choke (on a vehicle)
Bodacious
Tubular
Take a whiz
Majorly
bitchin
wickedSisyphean I come across it like once every few years in some article.
24 days later: https://lemm.ee/post/5458899 See what I mean?
Splendid
Sozzled.
French for drunk.
Only saw it on a British translation of Zola's L' Assomoir.
Flabbergasted.
sploosh
ciggie
Bibliobibuli
A person who reads too much
Guffaw
Renob
It was our clever and undetectable way to say boner in grade school
cowabunga
Yonder
Whatever word was used before "caveat" took it's place. A few years ago, suddenly, everyone on Youtube and elsewhere started using it.
Free
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicavolcanoconiosis. It's just not a word that comes up often
Middle class
Cahoots
Bufty.
Heard it frequently 20 years ago and now it's dropped off the face of the planet as casual homophobia has become a bit less prevelant.
💀
...to your mother
I went through a dapper phase at one point...
Cyberspace
Real estate novelist.
Need to listen to this song now, urgently! :-)
sphygmomanometer
Precipitate
The lyrics to Alouette.
Facetious and Modicum.
I remember them being heavily used everywhere by everyone like a fad, disappeared like a fad. I don't miss them though
Magnanimous
That girl's a lunchbox. Their lunchin'
Assgoblin
Apoplexy
Bingus
floccinaucinihilipilification
Prolly
Waddup?
Dignified
I left Australia decades back, so all my slang vocabulary is stuck from when I left. rorted - being high having a pash - intense kissing
Jig jog
