2. Conversation
• Kate: You’re such a Dumb
Dora, you can’t just take them
for a ride and bump them off!
• Lexy: Sure I can it’ll be like the
movies, the real McCoy! It’ll be
copacetic!
• Kate: Baloney!! You’’re just
tryin’ to be a bimbo. Just
because they had hooch at a
speakeasy mean you can
drink giggle water.
• Lexy: I don’t want to drink
giggle water it’ll make me
upchuck, besides I’ll be a star
in a movies.
• Kate: Let me guess; you’ll be
the cat’s meow drinking joe.
• Lexy: Naw it’ll be about a
palooka fighting a flyboy for a
Moll. But she said “Sorry
Boys, the bank’s closed!
• Kate: You slay me!!!
3. Slang Meanings
• Baloney - nonsense!
• Bank's Closed - no kissing or making out - i.e. -
"Sorry, Mac, the bank's closed.
• Bimbo - a tough guy
• Bump Off - To murder, To kill
• Cat's Meow - Something splendid or stylish; similar
to bee's knees
• Copacetic - Wonderful, fine, all right
• Dumb Dora - a stupid female
• Fly boy - a glamorous term for an aviator Giggle
Water - An intoxicating beverage
• Hooch - Bootleg liquor
• Joe- for coffee
• Moll - A gangster's girl
• Palooka- a below-average or average boxer
• Real McCoy - The genuine article
• Take for a Ride - To drive off with someone
• in order to bump them off
• Speakeasy - An illicit bar selling bootleg
liquor
• Upchuck - To vomit when one has drunk
too much
• You slay me - that's Funny
4. More slang
• Get a wiggle on - get a move on, get going
• Beeswax - business, i.e. None of your
beeswax.
• Applesauce- an expletive same as
horsefeathers, As in "Ah applesauce!
• Shiv - a knife
• Struggle-Buggy - A car in which men try to
seduce women.
• Swell- Excellent
