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• J-Crew clone
  
  ( np ) Fraternity brother. Don't go in that bar; it's full of J-Crew clones.
  1980s
• jack
  
  ( v ) To steal. Somebody
  1990s
• jack
  
  ( n ) Money. He's a nice-looking guy but he doesn't have enough jack for me.
  1920s
• jack up
  
  ( adj ) Raise a car's rear end. Hey, man, your rod looks cool jacked up like that.
  1970s
• jacketed
  
  ( adj ) Dating only one person. Forget her; she's jacketed.
  1990s
• jail bait
  
  ( np ) A girl too young for sexual advances. Don't hit on her; she's only 15 and jail bait.
  1950s
• jake
  
  ( adj ) Alright, OK. Who made all that noise? Is everything jake out here?
  1910s
• jalopy
  
  ( n ) An old, beat-up car. Where did you get that old jalopy?
  1920s
• jam
  
  ( v ) To leave. The music's getting too loud; I'm jamming.
  1980s
• jam
  
  ( v ) To make music informally. After the gig last night, the group went over to Tooter's and jammed the rest of the night.
  1950s
• jam on the one
  
  ( vp ) To be excellent, outstanding. That song she's singing is jamming on the one.
  1990s
• jammed
  
  ( adj ) Upset, angry. I was totally jammed over that D in bio.
  1990s
• jane
  
  ( n ) Any female. He picked up some jane at the bar last night.
  1920s
• janked up
  
  ( adj ) Confused, messed up. Everything was so janked up we didn't know if we were coming or going.
  1990s
• jankety
  
  ( adj ) In bad condition. I always wear jankety kicks so nobody wants to steal them.
  1990s
• janky
  
  ( adj ) In bad condition, ugly. Rodriquez, we aren't riding in your anky old car any more.
  1990s
• janky
  
  ( adj ) Suspicious, not quite honest. That girl in the trench coat and dark glasses looks janky.
  1990s
• java
  
  ( n ) Coffee. Give me a cup of java and one of your week-old doughnuts.
  1920s
• jazz
  
  ( v ) To enhance, make more decorative. He
  1920s
• jazz
  
  ( adj ) To excite, enthuse. This is going to be a great reunion. I'm really jazzed about going.
  1910s
• jazzed
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. Get him out of here; he's totally jazzed.
  1920s
• jelly roll
  
  ( np ) Men's hair style combed up and forward on both sides to a point in the middle of the forehead. Floyd looks like a jerk in that jelly roll of his.
  1960s
• jerk
  
  ( n ) A stupid or foolish person. The jerk left his date at the party.
  1930s
• jerk around
  
  ( v ) Mislead. Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around.
  1950s
• Jesus freak
  
  ( np ) Missionary Christians. There's a bunch of Jesus freaks in my philosophy class.
  1970s
• jet
  
  ( v ) To leave. I have homework to do; let's jet.
  1990s
• jets
  
  ( n ) Smarts, brains. She is good-looking but she doesn't have much jets.
  1990s
• jewels
  
  ( n ) An excellent pair of shoes. Hey man, where did you come across those awesome jewels?
  1990s
• jiggery-pokery
  
  ( n ) Deceitful trickery. Robin Banks did some jiggery-pokery to make his books show a profit.
  1890s
• jiggy
  
  ( adj ) Jittery, fidgety. Sit still and don't be so jiggy.
  1890s
• jiggy
  
  ( adj ) Sexy, attractive. She is a jiggy woman, the way she dresses.
  1990s
• jimmies
  
  ( n ) Stretch shorts worn under another pair of shorts. Did you remember to wear your jimmies?
  1990s
• jinx
  
  ( n ) Something or someone that brings bad luck. For a long time sailors thought that a woman on board ship was a jinx.
  1910s
• jit
  
  ( n ) An inexperienced person. We got a bunch of jits on the team.
  1990s
• jitney
  
  ( n ) A nickel, a 5-cent piece. He didn't have a jitney on him at the time.
  1900s
• jitterbug
  
  ( n ) A nervous person. Calm down, Donny, don't be such a jitterbug.
  1930s
• jitterbug
  
  ( n ) A dance to fast big band jazz. Boogie-woogie, bebop, jitterbug, I love all the fast dances.
  1940s
• jive
  
  ( n ) Fast jazz of the 20s-30s. I know a little club where they play jive until 2 in the morning.
  1920s
• jive
  
  ( v ) To make sense, fit. Nothing you say jives with what your wife told me.
  1940s
• jive
  
  ( v ) To mislead, deceive. Don't try to jive me, man. I know what's what.
  1920s
• jive
  
  ( v ) To play fast jazz of the 20s-30s. He had a group that would jive all night.
  1920s
• jive
  
  ( n ) Worthless, crazy, or unpleasant talk. Don't talk that jive to me, turkey; I don't believe a word you say.
  1920s
• jock
  
  ( n ) An athlete. He likes to hang out at jock bars and talk sports all the time.
  1950s
• jock
  
  ( v ) To flirt. I think that guy is trying to jock you?
  1990s
• Joe
  
  ( n ) Form of address to an unknown male. Hey Joe, what's up.
  1840s
• joe
  
  ( n ) Coffee. Give me a cup of joe, Joe, and a piece of Mabel's crabapple pie or whatever it is.
  1920s
• Joe Blow
  
  ( np ) An ordinary, average person. Joe Blow doesn't buy many yachts in his lifetime.
  1950s
• Joe Sixpack
  
  ( np ) An ordinary, average person. No, you wouldn't expect Joe Sixpack to drive around in a Bugatti.
  1970s
• john
  
  ( n ) Bathroom. The john really smells.
  1950s
• john
  
  ( n ) A toilet or the toilet. When he flushed the john, he was surprised to see his cap disappearing down the hole.
  1920s
• John Law
  
  ( n ) The police. Watch out for John Law.
  1950s
• joint
  
  ( n ) Jail or prison. He claims that he did time in the joint.
  1950s
• joint
  
  ( n ) A prison, jail. When he got out of the joint, he went legit.
  1940s
• joint
  
  ( n ) A questionable establishment. He took her to a joint he wouldn't want his mother to even know about.
  1910s
• jone
  
  ( v ) To criticize. He was joning me all night.
  1990s
• juice
  
  ( n ) Liquor or other alcoholic beverage. I hear Harry is on the juice again.
  1820s
• juice
  
  ( n ) Electricity. There is a plug here but it doesn't have any juice.
  1890s
• juice
  
  ( n ) Influence. Marty has enough juice in city hall that he never pays a parking ticket.
  1960s
• juice
  
  ( n ) Electricity. Plug the mixer in and give it the juice.
  1890s
• juice joint
  
  ( n ) A speakeasy. For five years Myrtle ran a juice-joint until they caught her for selling bootleg hootch.
  1920s
• juiced
  
  ( adj ) Drunk, intoxicated. Orville got pretty juiced at the party last night.
  1950s
• juiced
  
  ( adj ) Overexcited. Man, I was hella juiced at summer jams.
  1990s
• Jump in the lake!
  
  ( phr ) Don't bother me; you're crazy. You want me to loan you $5? Go jump in the lake!
  1920s
• jump the couch
  
  ( vp ) To lose control of yourself, go crazy. Maureen jumped the couch when she heard that Craig had left town with Sue.
  2000s
• just off the boat
  
  ( pp ) Naive. He acts like he is just off the boat.
  1900s
• juvie
  
  ( n ) Juvenile court or detention center. Then they hauled me into juvey.
  1960s
• juvie
  
  ( n ) Juvenile delinquent. Those juvies are always stealing things.
  1940s