What’s Happening?

by John Nicholas Iannuzzi

  Cat

  —An individual, a person, a being.

  Chow

  —Food.

  Cool

  —Something is admired, approved, if it is cool.

  Cool it

  —Desist, stop from a course of action.

  Come on

  —Appear, do in a certain way.

  Couk

  —Someone who is bugged; an emotionally disturbed person.

  Crazy

  —An expression of approval; also bizarre and therefore good.

  Cut, cut out

  —Leave, quit; also desist, stop.

  Dig

  —Understand, appreciate, enjoy exceedingly.

  Drag

  —Something boring and tedious.

  End

  —The ultimate perfection; something very good.

  Far out

  —Another word for closeness to perfection; close to the end.

  Fern

  —A Lesbian who assumes a female role.

  Flick

  —The cinema.

  Flyers

  —Homosexuals.

  Flying

  —Someone who has been relieved temporarily of his earthly bounds by alcohol or drugs; in high spirits.

  Gay boys

  —Homosexuals (male).

  Hip

  —To be “hip” is to understand, to be among the “knowing.”

  Like

  —A ubiquitous, universal word used to punctuate the conversation of hip people. It can be used anywhere and means nothing.

  Loot

  —Money.

  Mad

  —Very bizarre; very pleasing.

  Man

  —A form of address to either sex; also used ubiquitously for punctuation.

  Nails

  —Cigarettes.

  Pad

  —An apartment.

  Pot

  —Marijuana. Used more broadly to refer vaguely to any narcotic.

  Put down

  —Disapprove of or avoid someone.

  Sack

  —A bed; to go to bed.

  Scratch

  —Money.

  Sick

  —Emotionally unbalanced—couk is sick.

  Split

  —Leave, quit, desist, cut out.

  Square

  —Not hip, as someone who must refer to the foregoing to understand hip talk.

  Books by John Nicholas Iannuzzi

  Fiction

  Condemned

  J.T.

  Courthouse

  Sicilian Defense

  Part 35

  What’s Happening?

  Non-Fiction

  Handbook of Trial Strategies

  Handbook of Cross Examination

  Trial: Strategy and Psychology

  Cross Examination: The Mosaic Art

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1963 by John Nicholas Iannuzzi

  Cover image, New York Cityscape, by Kurt Schumann

  Cover design by Neil Heacox

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