Editing Flapper (section)

=== Slang ===
Flappers were associated with the use of a number of slang words, including "junk", "necker", "heavy petting", and "necking parties",<ref>{{Cite news | title = Shifters No Longer Appeal to Slackers | newspaper = The New York Times | date = March 26, 1922 | quote = The epithets she has evolved from her own lexicon are "junk", "necker" and "heavy necker". "Junk" is anything she considers unimportant or unworthy of consideration. A "necker" is a "petter" who puts her arms around a boy's neck. A "heavy necker" is a "petter" who hangs heavily on said neck. "Necking parties" have superseded "petting parties.}}.</ref> although these words existed before the 1920s.<ref>''Oxford English Dictionary'', online ed., March 2012.</ref> Flappers also used the word "jazz" in the sense of anything exciting or fun.<!-- This needs a citation. --> Their language sometimes reflected their feelings about dating, marriage and drinking habits: "I have to [[see a man about a dog]]" at this period often meant going to buy whiskey, and a "handcuff" or "manacle" was an engagement or wedding ring. Moreover, flappers invented slang terms like "hush money", which meant the allowance from a father or "dropping the pilot", which meant getting a divorce.<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 5, 2019|title=Flapper Slang: Talk the 1920s talk|url=https://www.kcts9.org/article/flapper-slang-talk-1920s-talk|access-date=2020-10-13|website=KCTS 9|language=en}}</ref> Also reflective of their preoccupations were phrases to express approval, such as "That's so Jake"{{Efn | First occurring as American criminal slang before 1914.<ref>{{Cite book | first1 = Louis E | last1 = Jackson | first2 = CR | last2 = Hellyer | title = A dictionary of criminal slang | year = 1914}} in {{Cite encyclopedia | title = Oxford English Dictionary | edition = online | date = March 2012}}.{{full citation needed|date=August 2019}}</ref>}} (okay), "She/he's the [[wikt:bee's knees|bee's knees]]" (a superb person), "Cake-eater" (a ladies' man), and the popular "the [[wikt:cat's meow|cat's meow]]" (anything wonderful).<ref>{{Cite book |title=The jazz age: the 20s |date=1998 |publisher=Time-Life Books |isbn=0-7835-5509-1 |location=Alexandria, VA |pages=32–33 |oclc=39706802}}</ref>

There were two more slang terms that reflected flappers' behaviors or lifestyles, which were "[[treating (dating)|treating]]" and "charity girls". In the social context of [[dating]], treating was the practice of providing companionship and intimate activity in exchange for entertainment outings, gifts, and other items of monetary value.<ref> Clement, Elizabeth Alice. ''Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945'' (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006), pp. 1, 3.</ref> The activity was prevalent in the large urban areas of the [[United States]] from the 1890s to the 1940s and was most commonly engaged in by young [[working class|working-class women]]. As treating became more widespread, the activity acquired the label "charity," and the young women who engaged in the more risqué aspects of the practice were often called charity girls.<ref name="sale"> Clement, Elizabeth Alice. ''Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945'' (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006), pp. 1, 48–49.</ref>