Back many years ago, perhaps 1950's, 60's or 70's, the word "bird" was used to describe a woman, and more typically a girlfriend, as in the phrase "She's a top bird"
Was there a male equivalent to this word?
Learn English – the male equivalent of the 1960’s slang “bird”, meaning a woman
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When you flog a horse you make it go faster. So to flog goods is to make them move faster.
I think that stack goes back relatively far in its meaning of "a large quantity". From the book Slang and its analogues past and present written in 1903:
The entry provides the phrase "stacks of the ready" to mean "plenty of money". I think this phrase, in the prevailing years, was shortened to the slang stack, which also took on the meaning of $1000.
Although I am loathe to use this as a source, Urban Dictionary lists that:
one stack = 1 G
That is, one stack is equivalent to one grand which is $1000. The use of stack in this fashion is very much slang, so it is not in more established dictionaries. However, given that Urban Dictionary is a crowd-sourced source which sometimes contains the most current uses of words, and that this meaning of stack is entered twice, I am sure that a stack is equal to $1000.
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Bird as a term was applied to women in Middle English. The slang usage was revived in the 20th century as (often disparaging) slang. (The Oxford English Dictionary explains:
There often aren't cross-gender equivalents of terms. For one, the sexes were often not thought of in the same way. Sexual looseness for women was often scandalous; for men it was sometimes celebrated. For another, the roles people played were different. Courtship, family structures, and employment were often highly gendered. So with a very general term like bird, the best I can find is another animal-like word that would refer to a man during the same time period you describe.
Cat. Merriam-Webster:
Kerouac writing it places the usage firmly in the 1950s beat culture. It's also associated with jazz. While other terms (bloke, dude, guy) would be contemporaneous, the animal terms make the two feel more similar.