The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton
Slang Vocabulary Chart
Directions: Complete the vocabulary chart below for the novel by using context clues to determine the
meaning of the slang vocabulary. Then, create your own picture to represent the slang vocabulary word.
Vocabulary Word and Book Sentence
A’woofin
Sentence: “’Ain’t you about to freeze to death,
Pony?’ ‘You ain’t a’woofin’,’ I said, rubbing my
bare arms between drags on my cigarette”
(Hinton 49).
Bop
Sentence: “I mean, you take a guy that calls a
rumble “bop-action,” and you can tell he isn’t
real educated” (Hinton 122).
Crocked
Sentence: “He was pretty well crocked, which
made me apprehensive. If Dally was drunk
and in a dangerous mood…” (Hinton 54).
Fuzz
Sentence: “’How’s Sodapop? Are the fuzz
after us? Is Darry all right? Do the boys know
where we are? What…’” (Hinton 71).
Icebox
Sentence: “I hunted through the icebox and
found some eggs” (Hinton 92).
Pickled
Sentence: “Five Socs were coming straight at
us, and from the way they were staggering I
figured they were reeling pickled” (Hinton 50).
Snooker
Sentence: “’Gonna go play a little snooker and
hunt up a poker game…’” (Hinton 43).
Turf
Sentence: “Once we even found Tim Shepard,
leader of the Shepard gang and far from his
own turf, reading the morning paper in the
armchair” (Hinton 93).
Blade
Sentence: “’Look!’ He showed me the
handkerchief, reddened as if by magic. ‘Did
they pull a blade on you?’” (Hinton 10).
Bum
Sentence: “’And even if you are mad at us,
that’s no reason to go walking the streets with
these bums’” (Hinton 41).
Dig
Sentence: “Like the way you dig sunsets,
Pony. That’s gold” (Hinton 154).
Heater
Sentence: “I didn’t know about the Brumly
boys, but I knew Shepard’s gang were used to
fighting with anything they could get their
hands on—bicycle chains, blades, pop bottles,
pieces of pipe, pool sticks, or sometimes even
heaters” (Hinton 122).
Definition
Picture
Madras
Sentence: “He had on a madras shirt. I can
still see it. Blue madras” (Hinton 8).
Savvy
Sentence: “…It’s just because you’re the
baby—I mean, he loves you a lot. Savvy?’”
(Hinton 19).
Tuff
Sentence: “Tough and tuff are two different
words. Tough is the same as rough; tuff
means cool, sharp—like a tuff-looking
Mustang or a tuff record. In our neighborhood
both are compliments” (Hinton 14).
Weed
Sentence: “Two-Bit grinned and lit a cigarette.
‘Anyone want a weed?’” (Hinton 29).
Greasers
Sentence: “…almost like hoods; we steal
things and drive old souped-up cars and hold
up gas stations…” (Hinton 3).
Broad
Sentence: “I only wanted to lie on my back
under a tree and read a book or draw a
picture, and not worry about being jumped or
carrying a blade or ending up married to some
scatter-brained broad” (Hinton 48).
Slugged
Sentence: "’Shoot," I said, startled out of my
misery, "you got the whole gang. Dally didn't
slug you tonight 'cause you're the pet. I mean,
golly, Johnny, you got the whole gang.’"
(Hinton 51).
Wise Cracker
Sentence: “Two-Bit Mathews was the oldest of
the gang and the wisecracker…, and he
couldn’t stop making funny remarks to save
his life” (Hinton 9-10).
Lift
Sentence: “He could lift a hubcap quicker and
more quietly than anyone in the neighborhood”
(Hinton 9).
Lone it
Sentence: “I had a long walk home and no
company, but I usually lone it anyway...”
(Hinton 1).
Hacked Off
Sentence: “…his mother ignored him, except
when she was hacked off at something, and
then you could hear her yelling at him clear
down at our house” (Hinton 12).