Slang In The 1920s

The Language Of The 1920s In the twenties, language was flowing in the streets of the United States.Groups of people spoke slang in the cities and towns.Slang expressed the cultures and movements of the 1920s. The people that used slang in 1920s came from all sorts of backgrounds.They used slang for different things such as drinks mixed with alcohol.Which was called a cocktail, in Speakeasies, as for people that don’t usually drink alcohol can drink it. Lots of types of people use slang such as gangsters,flappers,country folk,city folk, and etc.The people that used slang words, used it on events or phrases in their lives ( Your ).
The gangsters used slang to describe women, law enforcement,weapons,cars and crimes. Gangsters …show more content…
In which, that the backgrounds of the people influenced the way the people spoke. Leading to many different ways of saying phrases and words. Making slang of the 1920s especially unique. Slang in 1920s created new ways to communicate with other groups of people.Phrases emerged with the movements of the decade.Such as prohibition- the outlaw of alcohol.The events and movements of the twenties create new culture and slang.There is a lot of phrases that came from this decade.With a lot of new technology emerging in this decade and a lot of things were created.
Slang in the twenties was partially a few words long.The phrases can describes how something is,people,buildings and structures and etc.. Phrases such as the Bee’s knees, which means a extraordinary person,thing or idea.As in a sentence it we be used as this.The new iphone is the bee’s knees of the year. A drugstore cowboy was a guy that hung around the corner store picking up girls.Basically it was some random guy using the store as a temporary place to hang out for he can get girls. Cheaters was glasses you wear to see. So it was just normal glasses and they probably called them cheaters because it wasn’t people’s natural eyesight , and it enhanced people’s