Blotto teenagers everywhere owe a debt to 1920s America, according to a new study of how the era influenced the language we use today.
That world – back in fashion thanks to Baz Luhrmann's remake of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby starring Leonardo DiCaprio – is responsible for dozens of popular words and phrases.
Among the words first coined in the Jazz Age, which was chronicled by Fitzgerald in a series of stories and novels, are "mass media", "cold turkey" and "sub prime".
Other words and phrases invented in the early 1920s include "teenage", "wimp", "junkie" and "mock-up".
Fitzgerald himself is regarded as the first writer to record words including "T-shirt" and "wicked" as a term of approval.
The decade – which was the period of Prohibition in the United States – sparked dozens of terms for drunkenness, including "squiffy", "zozzled", "tanked", "blotto" and "plastered".
Sarah Churchwell, an expert on Fitzgerald and professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia, said the 1920s saw an explosion of new words and phrases to reflect a growing obsession with money, sex and celebrity culture.
She said: "One of the reasons why The Great Gatsby remains so strikingly relevant to readers today is that Fitzgerald could see that a new way of life was emerging all around him – our way of life."
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