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"CRASH" and "WASTED" are slang terms MUCH older than the '70s, as are 6 of the terms/words whoever wrote this article has less than NO idea about!

"SPACE CADET" is from at least the late '40s- early '50s and refers to someone not all there.

"KEEP ON TRUCKIN'" is from the late '30s.

"SKINNY" was in use in the '50s; ditto "OUT TO LUNCH", which was often just said as "OTL".

"BRICK HOUSE" is a shortened version of "BUILT LIKE A BRICK S**T HOUSE"...which referred to an extreme well proportioned female and though I don't know how far back that saying goes back to at least the early '50s and most probably it is older than that.

"BOOGIE DOWN" ( which I heard said as "BOOGIE ON DOWN" in the late 1940s ) comes from the term for a type of music known as BOOGIE WOOGIE, which began in the late 1800s, became mainstream and very popular in the late 1920s and stayed popular through the 1940s.