1. books
   clothes
2. saffron
   tires

This one probably wasn't too difficult to guess. "Threads" is still used to mean clothing.

1. dashing
   loping
2. open-airing
   streaking

This was sometimes done as a political protest. This makes us think of Mel Gibson's line in "Signs": "I know you're trying to make a point. I just don't know what it is."

1. bang out
   crash
2. lie low
   string out

"Crash" means to go to bed and promptly go to sleep. Because of this, it's also a term for staying at somebody's house, because the key part of being a guest is that you're sleeping there, not just dropping by for a visit.

1. bomb
   gas
2. affair
   tulip

Nowadays, "gas" has unpleasant associations. But back in the day, it meant to have a good time.

1. a cigarette
   a "feel"
2. a home
   an experience

The classic term was "bumming a smoke." The latter, of course, meant "cigarette."

1. argent
   bread
2. ink
   hair

"Bread" is one of many slang terms for money. "Argent," meaning "silver," is French slang for money.

1. as underwear/panties
   on your ring finger
2. your wrists
   your feet

"Thongs" were what millennials now call "flip flops" and Hawaiians call "rubber slippers." Meanwhile, a "thong" now is a very brief undergarment, worn under revealing clothing so as to not make a visible panty line.

1. coker
   poker
2. stoker
   toker

To "toke" was to have a drag on a marijuana cigarette. The line above is, of course, from the song, "The Joker," by The Steve Miller Band.

1. conversate
   touch base
2. parley
   rap

Naturally, this term was adopted by parents and teachers trying to get through to their kids. Example: "You know I'm always available if you want to rap, Johnny."

1. chronic
   grass
2. weed
   Mary Jane

"Chronic" arose in the late-Generation-X to early-millennial days. It started out to mean strong marijuana, but has become more general.

1. 50-meter dash
   fire drill
2. smoke break
   roll call

Apparently this passed for great fun in the '60s. (Also, on behalf of our Boomer forebears, we apologize to all Chinese people about the name).

1. a meal
   a "feel"
2. a book
   an exam

"Cop a feel" meant to touch a girl in a sneaky way, without literal or implied consent. Well, *usually* the aggressor was a guy and the recipient a girl, but we suppose there were exceptions!

1. stay up late
   sleep
2. solve difficult problems
   use drugs, often psychedelics

Our favorite use of this word comes from Stephen King, who candidly said in an interview, "I was a head in the '60s. I don't mean I was ahead of everybody else; I was a HEAD."

1. air
   feet
2. the road
   the trails

"Bug out" got its start as military slang and spread to the general population. Nowadays you also hear "bang out," from the military term to eject from a fighter jet or flee a situation going downhill.

1. dude or guy
   girl or chick
2. police officer
   feline

"Cat" just meant a male person. But it was strongly implied that he was young and hip.

1. understood
   liked
2. made
   both #1 and #2

"You dig?" was the classic way to ask someone if they followed what you were saying. But you could also say that you "dug" the philosophy of Epicurus.

1. kitten
   grommet
2. rectangle
   square

For maximum effect, you'd draw a square in the air with two fingers. It was the Boomer equivalent of holding a thumb-and-forefinger "L" in front of your forehead.

1. cat
   hat
2. ride
   wig

If Bart Simpson had been a Boomer, he might have said, "Don't flip your wig, man!" (Instead, of course, of "Don't have a cow!")

1. awesome
   authoritarian
2. a drag
   very tall

"Boss" was still around in the early 1980s, as evidenced by the cult novel, "The Grounding of Group Six." One character decides he has met a "boss chick" at boarding school.

1. watch submarines race, of course
   take a nap
2. make out
   swim

Of course, you can't really watch submarines race (if there was such a thing), they're underwater. So inviting a girl to the submarine races was a way to invite her to park by a body of water and make out.

1. bogart
   grant
2. gable
   lose

To hold onto a marijuana cigarette long after you should have passed it on was called "bogarting." Why? Because in his movies, Humphrey Bogart often had a cigarette clamped in his mouth, for long periods of time.

1. a brick house
   a full house
2. a three-story house
   a new house

This expression was immortalized by the Commodores song of the same name. "Thirty-six, twenty-four, thirty-six/What a winning hand!"

1. come down
   glow out
2. bum out
   buy more drugs

"Coming down" is the classic expression for the feeling of drugs wearing off. It's the equivalent of "sobering up" for alcohol.

1. bald man
   bad architect
2. person with an uncool car
   ugly person

Boomer fun: Yell, "Hey, chrome dome!" at your bald principal or teacher and then hide in the bushes. (Seriously, had fun not been invented yet?)

1. a check to see if drugs were pure
   a group experiment with psychedelics
2. a check to see if dollar bills were tainted with acid
   dropping hints to find out if a new friend used psychedelics

In the 1960s, most drug users believed that group use led to more profound experiences. The term "acid test" was immortalized by the book, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test."

1. grey area
   hangup
2. millstone
   ravine

"Hangups" were the hallmark of the older generation. The holy grail of enlightenment was to have no hangups at all.

1. groovy
   hard up
2. uptight
   zoned out

Your parents and other authority figures were uptight. You and your friends were "laid back."

1. American Bandstand
   Laugh-In
2. The Phil Donahue Show
   The Tonight Show

The full name of the show was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In." Its name was a homage to the "be-ins" and "love-ins" of the '60s.

1. drummer
   guru
2. pusher
   driver

The term "pusher" is slightly derogatory, suggesting the person influences others to use drugs, getting people turned on to them, in order to ensure regular "customers." It's mostly been replaced by the less loaded term "dealer."

1. the "ubermensch"
   the universal principle
2. randomnness
   synchronicity

Synchronicity is a relationship between two seemingly unrelated things, or two people having the same thought at the same time without contact with each other. It's hard to explain succinctly, but you can find good summaries of Jung's idea online.

1. core
   bird
2. roach
   spider

A roach was the very butt of a joint, smoked down to the end. You could re-light one if you were desperate.

1. rubber glover
   no-count
2. pearl diver
   sink jockey

Yup, "pearl diving" sounds like an exotic sex practice, but it was just washing dishes for pay. At least, according to the Beatniks, those early forerunners of the hippies.

1. drugs
   farmland
2. sexual attitudes
   water

"Key" was simply short for "kilogram" (which is, frankly, a lot of any kind of drug). A "lid" was an ounce bag of marijuana.

1. jail cell
   gram of LSD
2. tall person
   thousand dollars

You don't hear this one much anymore. It's been replaced by "large" or "a K."

1. looking for work
   being a coward
2. picking up girls
   shoplifting

We kind of like "quail" as a synonym for "females." More dignified than "chicks," at least!