Max Decharne: Straight From The Fridge Dad - A Dictionary Of Hipster Slang

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"Draw a dark one, daddio," would be the way a hipster might ask for a black coffee in this burg.

Decharne, a Berliner, has with Germanic thoroughness run through an A to Z of 1950s slang, a dialect which is still in use today.

Like any subculture, the lingo has oozed into the lingua franca, witness "loaded," "straight, no chaser" and many others.