SLANG FOR COMMON SUBJECTS

"Well, he was up all night chasing grouse." (Heavyweight)

also see, Slang Dictionary, also see, Police Terminology

Cops
• black and whites (Bust Amboy, Losing Streak, Fatal Charm)
• blue coat (Pariah)
• blue uniform (Savage Sunday)
• boys in blue (Groupie)
• brave soldier (Bust Amboy)
• bull (Jojo)
• cannons (Savage Sunday)
• city’s finest (Strange Justice)
• copper (Starsky’s Lady, Death Ride, Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• cops (Rosey Malone, Psychic, Death in a Different Place, Body Worth Guarding, Running, Nightmare, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Committee… )
• dick (Playboy Island)
• fuzz (Little Girl Lost, Death Ride, Death Notice, Kill Huggy Bear, Silence, Hostages, Trap)
• Gestapo creeps (Little Girl Lost)
• heat (Set-Up, Silence, Bait, Iron Mike, Kill Huggy Bear, Trap)
• hero (Quadromania)
• junior g-man (Groupie)
• law, the (Bloodbath, Long Walk)
• law enforcement officer (Playboy Island)
• lawmen (Committee, Terror on the Docks)
• long arm of the law (Psychic)
• officers of the law (Plague, Blindfold, Captain Dobey, You're Dead)
• peace officer (Omaha Tiger)
• pig (Pariah, Running, Bust Amboy, A Coffin for Starsky, Savage Sunday, Murder Ward, Bloodbath, Vampire)
• plainclothes (Silence, Action, Heavyweight)
• rent-a-cop (Groupie)
• roga (Deadly Imposter)
• screw (Pariah)
• the man (Kill Huggy Bear, Black and Blue)
• uniforms (Hostages, Pariah, Bait)

Drugs
• coke (Murder at Sea, Bloodbath, Starsky's Brother, Targets 1)
• junk (Bait, Bloodbath, Pilot)
• snow (Snowstorm)
• little girl (Targets 1)
• dope (Bait, Bust Amboy, Lady Blue, Heroes, Targets 1)
• smack (Bait, Bust Amboy, Heroes)
• stuff (Heroes, Bust Amboy, Pilot)
• goodies (Manchild on the Streets)
• dream dust (Bust Amboy)
• horse (Fix, Coffin for Starsky)

Sex
• action (Murder at Sea)
• action department (Photo Finish)
• bah a few humbugs (Little Girl Lost)
• be friendly (Murder at Sea)
• birds and the bees (Rosey Malone)
• chasing grouse (Heavyweight)
• check things out at this end (Class in Crime)
• compromise virtue (Tap Dancing)
• cover (Starsky vs. Hutch)
• dip (Tap Dancing)
• doing numbers in cars (Pilot)
• do things in the dark to give himself a lift (Death Notice)
• fiddle around (Texas Longhorn)
• fix a big breakfast (Gillian)
• flies L.A. to Honolulu without a plane (Heavyweight)
• get a fire going (Cover Girl)
• get a room (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• get comfortable (Groupie)
• get in the sack (Avenger)
• get involved (Groupie)
• get the cork out (Vendetta)
• give her my thingamajig (Pilot)
• gross pleasures (Body Worth Guarding)
• have a couple of laughs (Photo Finish)
• have a few drinks and talk it over (Deadly Imposter)
• have a few laughs (Ballad for a Blue Lady, Photo Finish)
• have a good time (Nightmare)
• have a party (Jojo)
• have some kicks (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• have something special (Ballad For a Blue Lady)
• how about a little wiffy-sniffy (Playboy Island)
• join me for a cup of coffee (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• kind of cozy (Photo Finish)
• lipstick on the butt (Class in Crime)
• looked whipped (Tap Dancing, Heavyweight)
• make love (Death in a Different Place)
• mess around (Photo Finish, Texas Longhorn)
• over easy (Class in Crime)
• play footsie (Ballad for a Blue Lady, Velvet Jungle)
• play potsy (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
• pour the wine (Vendetta)
• rope and brand (Tap Dancing)
• raise the roof (Deckwatch)
• rub elbows (Photo Finish)
• sex scene (Savage Sunday)
• shacked up (Fix)
• showed her my thingamajig (Pilot)
• smell my flower (Playboy Island)
• smell the flowers (Groupie)
• some night duty (Tap Dancing)
• spend a little time in intensive care (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• split a six-pack of beer after work (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• take lying down (Strange Justice)
• there’s a great special on (Black and Blue)
• things to go over (Murder at Sea)
• turn on (Savage Sunday)
• used the backseat (Texas Longhorn)
• walk a lady to her door (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• whipped (Action, Tap Dancing)

Cash
• big one (Discomania, Bait)
• bit (Targets 1)
• bogus bread (Losing Streak)
• bread (Omaha Tiger, Bust Amboy, Fatal Charm, Manchild on the Streets,Kill Huggy Bear, Heavyweight, Savage Sunday, Blindfold, Ballad for a Blue Lady, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• buck (Death in a Different Place, Long Walk, Tap Dancing, Cover Girl)
• bundle (Heroes)
• C note (Action)
• car fare (Action)
• chicken feed (Golden Angel)
• chump change (Golden Angel, Birds of a Feather)
• dough (Action, Nightmare, Game, Collector)
• egg money (Action)
• fast buck (Tap Dancing, Psychic)
• fiver (Murder at Sea)
• flash (Bait, Action)
• funny money (Losing Streak)
• get out of town money (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• grand (Fatal Charm, Survival, Targets 1, Birds of a Feather)
• Grant (Iron Mike)
• green (Iron Mike, Action, Savage, Bait)
• guilt money (Pariah)
• hard buck (A Coffin For Starsky)
• king’s ransom (Hutchinson for Murder One)
• Lincoln (Iron Mike)
• long yard of green (Action)
• long one (Bait)
• mint (Las Vegas Stranger)
• queer (Losing Streak)
• quite a loaf (Photo Finish)
• sawbuck (Vampire)
• smackaroo (Photo Finish)
• stake (Action)
• ten spot (Shootout)
• traveling money (Death in a Different Place)
• two bits (Nightmare, Bloodbath, Death in a Different Place, Pariah, Running, Psychic, Birds of a Feather, Death Ride)
• wad (Heroes)
• walking around money (Little Girl Lost)
• Washington (Iron Mike)

Women
• bimbo (Texas Longhorn, Heroes)
• boom boom girl (Shootout)
• broad (Fix, Snowstorm, Bust Amboy, Velvet Jungle,Shootout, Fatal Charm, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Terror on the Docks, Texas Longhorn, Cover Girl, Photo Finish)
• chick (Jojo, Murder at Sea, Fix, Foxy Lady, Nightmare, Fatal Charm, Manchild on the Streets, Heavyweight, Shootout, Pilot)
• dame (Fix, Deadly Imposter, Running)
• doll (Pilot, Crying Child)
• dollies (Playboy Island)
• fox (Iron Mike)
• girl (Starsky’s Lady)
• good looker (Fatal Charm)
• hot stuff (Hostages)
• lady (Starsky’s Lady, Rosey Malone, Playboy Island)
• little pretty (Manchild on the Streets)
• looker (A Coffin for Starsky)
• lovelies (Action)
• old lady (Foxy Lady, Heavyweight, Running, Specialist, Murder at Sea, Action, Iron)
• sister (Manchild on the Streets)
• stone fox (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• tramp (Shootout)

Homosexuality
• has certain tendencies (Death in a Different Place)
• change politics (Quadromania)
• feygeleh (Vendetta
• gay (Death in a Different Place)
• go that route (Quadromania)
• goes the other way (Death in a Different Place)
• in the closet (Death in a Different Place, Quadromania)
• kink (Quadromania)
• Lady Jane (Death in a Different Place)
• tendency to go the other way (Nightmare)
• vice bull (Jojo)

Jail and prison
• can (Jojo, Crying Child)
• do time (Silence, Huggy Can’t Go Home, Heroes)
• eating out of a tin dish (Action)
• go up (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
• in the junk (Pilot)
• in the slam (Snowstorm)
• jail (Las Vegas Strangler, Pariah, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• joint (Bait, Nightmare, Specialist, Psychic, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Black and Blue, Omaha Tiger)
• lockup (Strange Justice)
• on ice (Heavyweight, Collector)
• penitentiary (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
• prison (Terror on the Docks, Silence, A Coffin for Starsky, Murder on Stage 17, Specialist)
• put away ( Jojo, Murder Ward, Crying Child, Heavyweight)
• sent up (Crying Child, Fatal Charm)
• slammer (Jojo, Pilot, Bounty Hunter, Little Girl Lost, Long Walk, Heroes, Manchild on the Streets, Committee)
• slams (Groupie)
• shadows of bars, to be in (Huggy Bear Can't Go Home)
• tank (Las Vegas Strangler, Jojo, Bounty Hunter)
• up the river (Set-Up)
• wearing prison gray (Blindfold)

Death by violence
• blast (Survival)
• blow away (Bounty Hunter, Trap, Heavyweight, Velvet Jungle, Foxy Lady, Shootout)
• blow him/her out (Manchild on the Streets)
• bought it (Committee, Snowstorm)
• bump off (Psychic)
• burn (Death Ride, Class in Crime, Terror on the Docks, various)
• burned away (Set-Up)
• bury (Moonshine)
• buy it (Committee, Snowstorm)
• check out (Playboy Island)
• come to the end of his career (Iron Mike)
• did (Murder at Sea, Manchild on the Streets)
• do (Lady Blue)
• don’t want to see her no more (Bust Amboy)
* dreamland (Fix)
• dusted (Quadromania, Heavyweight)
• eat dirt (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• eliminate (Targets 3)
• finish (Gilliam, Jojo)
• fry (Kill Huggy Bear)
• go (Trap)
• go out (Shootout)
• gone (Kill Huggy Bear)
• hit (Snow, Tap Dancing, Jojo, A Coffin for Starsky)
• ice (Fix)
• knock off (Snowstorm, Bloodbath)
• laid out (Shootout)
• laid out on a slab (Action, Heavyweight)
• long gone (Running)
• long walk in the woods (Moonshine)
• make recently departed (Trap)
• marked off (Set-Up)
• mulched (Pilot)
• nail (Trap, Committee)
• never speaks to anyone ever again (Starsky’s Brother)
• no more peanuts (Bounty Hunter)
• off (Bait)
• on ice (Heavyweight)
• pick off (Body Worth Guarding)
• plant deep (Action)
• put away (Losing Streak, Moonshine, Hostages)
• put him off (Moonshine)
• put in a box (Heavyweight)
• put in cold storage (Heavyweight)
• put out of misery (Shootout)
• send looking for offshore oil, way offshore (Action)
• shut down (Targets 3)
• slip off (Fix)
• smear (Heroes)
• snuff (Snowstorm, Action, Foxy Lady)
• snuff out (Kill Huggy Bear)
• splash (Pilot)
• split up someone's head (Collector)
• strike (Targets 3)
• swallow a car for dessert (Targets 2)
• take a long walk in the woods (Moonshine)
• take care of (Gillian, Starsky’s Brother, Hostages)
• take out (FIx)
• third hole in the middle of forehead (Snowstorm)
• troubles will be over (Fix)
• turn one’s toes up (Tap Dancing, Terror on the Docks)
• ventilate (Bloodbath)
• wallpaper (Photo Finish)
• wash up on the beach (Bait)
• waste (Gillian, Bust Amboy, Running, Pariah, Shootout, Dandruff, Pilot)
• wind up on a slab (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• wipe away (Photo Finish)

Disreputable men
• ape (Action)
• bird (Bounty Hunter)
• bum (A Coffin for Starsky, Snowstorm, Shootout, Lady Blue)
• cat (Running, Savage Sunday, Murder at Sea, Gillian, Jojo, Long Walk, Murder Ward, Fix, Pilot)
• chump (Savage Sunday)
• clown (Bait)
• creep (Pilot, Iron Mike, Fix, Death Notice, Texas Longhorn, Bloodbath, Trap, Committee, Death in a Different Place, Hutchinson for Murder One)
• crumb (A Coffin for Starsky, Bust Amboy, Iron Mike, Action)
• degenerate (Lady Blue)
• dingo (Death Notice)
• dude (Tap Dancing, Death in a Different Place, Manchild on the Streets, Fix, Quadromania, Trap, Hutchinson for Murder One)
• enforcer (Death Notice)
• fink (Snowstorm, Fix)
• freak (Bloodbath, Partners)
• geese (Shootout)
• goon (Body Worth Guarding, Bounty Hunter, Murder Ward)
• gorilla (Trap, Action)
• hood (Death Ride, Iron Mike, Shootout, Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• jerk (Murder on Stage 17, Shootout)
• john (Fix)
• joker (Death Ride)
• loser (Bloodbath)
• lowlife (Pilot)
• mug (Murder Ward)
• "not one of your more attractive homo sapiens looking mean with a potential for ugly." (Trap)
• punk (Nightmare, Bloodbath, Death Notice, Lady Blue, Death in a Different Place, Crying Child, Heroes, Snowstorm, Kill Huggy Bear, Specialist, Iron Mike)
• scram (Plague)
• scum (Bust Amboy, Nightmare, Fix, Iron Mike, Velvet Jungle, Bloodbath)
• shark (Pilot, Targets 3)
• slug (Jojo)
• soldier (Shootout)
• stooge (Kill Huggy Bear, Set-Up)
• stoolie (Fix)
• triggerman (Pilot)
• turkey (Bust Amboy, A Coffin for Starsky, Jojo, Rosey Malone, Pariah, Crying Child, Manchild on the Streets, Heavyweight)
• weasel (Jojo, Bounty Hunter)
• whippo (Starsky’s Lady)
• white-on-white (Targets 3)
• wierdo (Trap)
• yoyo (Texas Longhorn, Jojo)

Using the bathroom
• business in the john (Trap)
• can (Death Ride)
• check out the plumbing (Partners)
• comfort station (Satan’s Witches)
• freshen up (Foxy Lady)
• gonna float away (Las Vegas Strangler)
• got to go to the bathroom (Golden Angel)
• indisposed (Trap, Rosey Malone)
• john (Trap, Shootout, Collector)
• little boys’ room”(Partners, Collector, Blindfold)
• men’s room (Shootout, Sweet Revenge)
• restroom (Bloodbath, Pariah)
• powder my nose (Foxy Lady)
• reference to kidneys (Las Vegas Strangler)
• service station (Las Vegas Strangler)
• washroom (Murder at Sea)

Butt
• backside (Heroes, Las Vegas Strangler)
• behind (Groupie)
• buns (Tap Dancing)
• butt (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• can (Fix, Specialist, Pariah)
• derriere (Murder at Sea)
• fanny (Class in Crime)
• sports section (Foxy Lady)
• tail (Fix, Pilot, Savage Sunday, Plague, Bloodbath, Snowstorm, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• tush (Discomania)
• your Raymond T. (Manchild on the Streets)

Cars
• buggy (Survival)
• chariot (Lady Blue)
• job (Game)
• ride (Jojo, Huggy Can't Go Home)
• short (Fix, Jojo)
• wheels (Survival, Bait)

Guns
• .45 (Birds of a Feather)
• ‘Nam toy gun (Strange Justice)
• .32 caliber (Committee)
• .38 caliber (Snowstorm)
• .38 special (Deckwatch, Committee, Pilot)
• 9 mm (Committee)
• armor (Blindfold)
• arms (Action)
• automatic (Trap, Committee)
• Beretta (Pilot)
• cannon (Trap, Photo Finish, Targets 3)
• elephant gun (Psychic)
• extra reach (Psychic)
• gat (Murder Ward)
• hardware (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• heater (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• high-powered rifle (Class in Crime)
• howitzer (Set-Up)
• lead (Photo Finish)
• machine gun (Set-Up)
• magnum (Birds of a Feather)
• office equipment (Groupie)
• peashooter (Trap)
• piece (Committee, Lady Blue, Body Worth Guarding, A Coffin for Starsky, Snowstorm, Groupie, Class in Crime)
• pistol (Collector)
• protection (Birds of a Feather)
• rifle (Set-Up)
• rod (Murder Ward)
• Saturday night special (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• semi-automatic/fully automatic (Golden Angel)
• silenced automatic (Photo Finish)

Sexual body parts and double entendres
• “babushkas,” The crooks stealing coats comment on the “commie broads’” babushkas. (Groupie)
• “bandeaus,” Hutch comments on swim suited woman’s “bandeaus.” (Groupie)
• “bust,” ‘Yourself’, the dancer asks Hutch what kind of bust he is thinking of. (Bounty Hunter)
• “doohickey,” Hutch says, “My doohickey got jammed.” Starsky replies with a smile, “I’m sure it did.” (Cover Girl)
• “jeans,” Starsky compliments woman on her “nice jeans.” (Murder At Sea)
• “nice specimens,” Hutch probably isn’t talking about the vegetation. (Playboy Island)
• “nice spread,” Hutch comments on Marsha’s (Tap Dancing)
• “printouts,” Starsky compliments Minnie on her printouts (Cover Girl)
• “signs,” Hutch compliments woman on her “large signs.” (Murder At Sea)
• “thingamajig,” Hutch took his date to the “whatchamacallit, gave her my thingamajig.” (Pilot)
• "tee shirt," Hutch compliments woman on her nice tee shirt. (Murder at Sea)

Huggy’s establishment
• “We aim to please, with everything from chitlins to Chinese,” Huggy tells Dobey. (Bait)
• “Where the beer always has a head, and the host sometimes has a heart,” Huggy says. (Photo Finish)
• “Where the food always fits and guaranteed never to …guess,” (give you the shits?) Huggy says to Nick. (Starsky’s Brother)
• Huggy tells some patrons about the “concoction” he whipped up, “I aim to please.” (Starsky’s Brother)
• “You’re looking at the new proprietor of this joint,” Huggy says of the Pits. (Collector)
• “You’ve dipped, you’ve sipped. We cash, no lip and if you dig what is hip, you’ll cough up a big tip,” says Huggy. (Groupie)
• Huggy answers the phone, “Chez Huggy Bear’s.” (Texas Longhorn)
• Huggy answers the phone, “Huggy’s Pits.” (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
• Huggy refers to his place as “Huggy’s Pits,” to Starsky and Hutch when he brings them champagne. (Photo Finish)
• Huggy answers the phone, “the Pits, Lair of the Huggy Bear.” (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
• Huggy calls it a “dip and sip.” (Trap)
• Huggy refers to it as “Haute Cuisine That Won’t Split Your Spleen.” (Action)
• Huggy says to Nick, “Huggy’s the name and my game is the same. The ladies they love me cause they all want to hug me.“ (Starsky’s Brother)
• Huggy says, “Where the elite meet and come to greet, fleet of feet who are so sweet with the finer things in life, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.” (Snowstorm)
• Hutch calls it “a club called the Pits.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
• Starsky calls it a “pit stop.” (Heavyweight)
• Starsky refers to “the old watering hole.” It may be the Pits. (Death in a Different Place)

Profanity meter
• “Bastard,” Starsky. (Foxy Lady, Body Worth Guarding, Plague)
• “Bastard,” Dobey. (Plague)
• “Shit” is snuck in by Merle. (Bloodbath)
• “Goddamn,” Sonny. (Survival)
• “Fuck,” appears to be mouthed by Hutch when he falls in the hospital hallway. (Sweet Revenge)
• Starsky sneakily flips Hutch the bird as he gives him the silver toe piece in the car. (Texas Longhorn)