The Secret Language of Crazy Eddie

Many people remember the electronics chain of the 1970s and 80s called "Crazy Eddie's." I worked in the Paramus store from 1980-1981. Did you know that the employees had a secret little language all their own? It was a mixture of Arabic (Syrian), Yiddish and occasionally pig-latin. Here's a list of all the terms as best as I could recall.

• abeed - a black person
• abo - derierre, Butt
• azab - someone just looking; lazy
• bagel - the service contract or SC.
• baha - commission
• BC - be quiet
• biz - breasts
• bubcause - be quiet; shut up
• c-line - book price or wholesale price
• check line
• dib - idiot
• DU - give something away for free
• drop line - lower the price to the customer
• fee - in stock
• g - a girl, woman
• hattie - truck
• hudda - sh*t
• husho - shoplifter, thief
  
• jedge - dickhead, asshole. (literally a male sex organ)
  
• JJ - (see jedge)
  
• JO - jerk off (verb or noun)
• Kelso = Eddie Antar (the owner)
  
• kish - throw it out
• kished - fired
• lot - twice the c-line
• lot 6 - a gay person
• lot 8 - crazy person
• lunch - putting a customer returned product back together in the box so it looked new, and then could be resold as new
• maf - out of stock
• make the bear - make the sale
• minoosh - a hot female
• N.A.D. - "nab at door" or "nail at door" (no one left the store without another sales person trying to close the deal)
• nahas - bad luck
• neek - f**k (as in the verb)
• nehdi - Syrian word or slang for cash or currency
• NG - no good 
• nish - low life
• reep - returned goods; return to manufacturer (short for "repackage")
  
• saf or saffo - cheat, outfox, overcharge
• safie bayer - raise the price, sucker.
• SC - the service contract.
• shamble him - tell him off or mock him
• shoof - to look at.
• sketch - to lie about a product or situation; to trick a customer
• sowee the G - pick up a girl
• spiff - a product to push that had an additional payout to the salesman if sold at full price.
• S.W. - switch the customer to a different item to purchase
• T.O. - turn customer over to another salesman (short for "turn over")
  
• tesh - bathroom, toilet
• yuk yuk - high profit sale
  
• zab or zabba - a loser customer; a customer who was just looking and not buying
• z-out - close out the cash register; reconcile the register with sales