“Well, he was up all night chasing grouse.”
(The Heavyweight)
Also see Slang Dictionary, Police Terminology
Cops
- black and whites (Bust Amboy, Losing Streak, Fatal Charm)
- blue coat (Pariah)
- blue uniform (Savage Sunday)
- boys in blue (The Groupie)
- brave soldier (Bust Amboy)
- bull (Jojo)
- cannons (Savage Sunday)
- city’s finest (Strange Justice)
- copper (Starsky’s Lady, Death Ride, Ballad for a Blue Lady)
- cops (I Love You, Rosey Malone, The Psychic, Death in a Different Place, A Body Worth Guarding, Running, Nightmare, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, The Committee…)
- dick (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- fuzz (Little Girl Lost, Death Ride, Death Notice, Kill Huggy Bear, Silence, The Hostages, The Trap)
- Gestapo creeps (Little Girl Lost)
- heat (The Set-Up, Silence, The Bait, Iron Mike, Kill Huggy Bear, The Trap)
- hero (Quadromania)
- junior g-man (The Groupie)
- law, the (Bloodbath, Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road)
- law enforcement officer (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- lawmen (The Committee, Terror on the Docks)
- long arm of the law (The Psychic)
- officers of the law (The Plague, Blindfold, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- peace officer (Omaha Tiger)
- pig (Pariah, Running, Bust Amboy, A Coffin for Starsky, Savage Sunday, Murder Ward, Bloodbath, The Vampire)
- plainclothes (Silence, The Action, The Heavyweight)
- rent-a-cop (The Groupie)
- roga (The Deadly Imposter)
- screw (Pariah)
- the man (Kill Huggy Bear, Black and Blue)
- uniforms (The Hostages, Pariah, The Bait)
Drugs
- coke (Murder at Sea, Bloodbath, Starsky’s Brother, Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- junk (The Bait, Bloodbath, Pilot)
- snow (Snowstorm)
- little girl (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- dope (The Bait, Bust Amboy, Lady Blue, The Heroes, Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- smack (The Bait, Bust Amboy, The Heroes)
- stuff (The Heroes, Bust Amboy, Pilot)
- goodies (Manchild on the Streets)
- dream dust (Bust Amboy)
- horse (The Fix, A Coffin for Starsky)
Sex
- action (Murder at Sea)
- action department (Photo Finish)
- bah a few humbugs (Little Girl Lost)
- be friendly (Murder at Sea)
- birds and the bees (I Love You, Rosey Malone)
- chasing grouse (The Heavyweight)
- check things out at this end (Class in Crime)
- compromise virtue (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- cover (Starsky vs. Hutch)
- dip (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- doing numbers in cars (Pilot)
- do things in the dark to give himself a lift (Death Notice)
- fiddle around (Texas Longhorn)
- fix a big breakfast (Gillian)
- flies L.A. to Honolulu without a plane (The Heavyweight)
- get a fire going (Cover Girl)
- get a room (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- get comfortable (The Groupie)
- get in the sack (The Avenger)
- get involved (The Groupie)
- get the cork out (Vendetta)
- give her my thingamajig (Pilot)
- gross pleasures (A Body Worth Guarding)
- have a couple of laughs (Photo Finish)
- have a few drinks and talk it over (The Deadly Imposter)
- have a few laughs (Ballad for a Blue Lady, Photo Finish)
- have a good time (Nightmare)
- have a party (Jojo)
- have some kicks (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
- have something special (Ballad For a Blue Lady)
- how about a little wiffy-sniffy (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- join me for a cup of coffee (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- kind of cozy (Photo Finish)
- lipstick on the butt (Class in Crime)
- looked whipped (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, The Heavyweight)
- make love (Death in a Different Place)
- mess around (Photo Finish, Texas Longhorn)
- over easy (Class in Crime)
- play footsie (Ballad for a Blue Lady, The Velvet Jungle)
- play potsy (Ballad for a Blue Lady)
- pour the wine (Vendetta)
- rope and brand (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- raise the roof (Deckwatch)
- rub elbows (Photo Finish)
- sex scene (Savage Sunday)
- shacked up (The Fix)
- showed her my thingamajig (Pilot)
- smell my flower (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- smell the flowers (The Groupie)
- some night duty (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- spend a little time in intensive care (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
- split a six-pack of beer after work (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
- take it lying down (Strange Justice)
- there’s a great special on (Black and Blue)
- things to go over (Murder at Sea)
- turn on (Savage Sunday)
- used the backseat (Texas Longhorn)
- walk a lady to her door (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- whipped (The Action, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
Cash
- big one (Discomania, The Bait)
- bit (Targets Without a Badge: Part 1)
- bogus bread (Losing Streak)
- bread (Omaha Tiger, Bust Amboy, Fatal Charm, Manchild on the Streets,Kill Huggy Bear, The Heavyweight, Savage Sunday, Blindfold, Ballad for a Blue Lady, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- buck (Death in a Different Place, Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Cover Girl)
- bundle (The Heroes)
- C note (The Action)
- car fare (The Action)
- chicken feed (The Golden Angel)
- chump change (The Golden Angel, Birds of a Feather)
- dough (The Action, Nightmare, The Game, The Collector)
- egg money (The Action)
- fast buck (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, The Psychic)
- fiver (Murder at Sea)
- flash (The Bait, The Action)
- funny money (Losing Streak)
- get out of town money (Hutchinson for Murder One)
- grand (Fatal Charm, Survival, Targets Without a Badge: Part 1, Birds of a Feather)
- Grant (Iron Mike)
- green (Iron Mike, The Action, Savage, The Bait)
- guilt money (Pariah)
- hard buck (A Coffin For Starsky)
- king’s ransom (Hutchinson for Murder One)
- Lincoln (Iron Mike)
- long yard of green (The Action)
- long one (The Bait)
- mint (The Las Vegas Stranger)
- queer (Losing Streak)
- quite a loaf (Photo Finish)
- sawbuck (The Vampire)
- smackaroo (Photo Finish)
- stake (The Action)
- ten spot (Shootout)
- traveling money (Death in a Different Place)
- two bits (Nightmare, Bloodbath, Death in a Different Place, Pariah, Running, The Psychic, Birds of a Feather, Death Ride)
- wad (The Heroes)
- walking around money (Little Girl Lost)
- Washington (Iron Mike)
Women
- bimbo (Texas Longhorn, The Heroes)
- boom boom girl (Shootout)
- broad (The Fix, Snowstorm, Bust Amboy, The Velvet Jungle,Shootout, Fatal Charm, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Terror on the Docks, Texas Longhorn, Cover Girl, Photo Finish)
- chick (Jojo, Murder at Sea, The Fix, Foxy Lady, Nightmare, Fatal Charm, Manchild on the Streets, The Heavyweight, Shootout, Pilot)
- dame (The Fix, The Deadly Imposter, Running)
- doll (Pilot, The Crying Child)
- dollies (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- fox (Iron Mike)
- girl (Starsky’s Lady)
- good looker (Fatal Charm)
- hot stuff (The Hostages)
- lady (Starsky’s Lady, I Love You, Rosey Malone, Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- little pretty (Manchild on the Streets)
- looker (A Coffin for Starsky)
- lovelies (The Action)
- old lady (Foxy Lady, The Heavyweight, Running, The Specialist, Murder at Sea, The Action, Iron Mike)
- sister (Manchild on the Streets)
- stone fox (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- tramp (Shootout)
Homosexuality
- has certain tendencies (Death in a Different Place)
- change politics (Quadromania)
- feygeleh (Vendetta)
- gay (Death in a Different Place)
- go that route (Quadromania)
- goes the other way (Death in a Different Place)
- in the closet (Death in a Different Place, Quadromania)
- kink (Quadromania)
- Lady Jane (Death in a Different Place)
- tendency to go the other way (Nightmare)
- vice bull (Jojo)
Jail and Prison
- can (Jojo, The Crying Child)
- do time (Silence, Huggy Can’t Go Home, The Heroes)
- eating out of a tin dish (The Action)
- go up (Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty)
- in the junk (Pilot)
- in the slam (Snowstorm)
- jail (The Las Vegas Strangler, Pariah, Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- joint (The Bait, Nightmare, The Specialist, The Psychic, Starsky and Hutch Are Guilty, Black and Blue, Omaha Tiger)
- lockup (Strange Justice)
- on ice (The Heavyweight, The Collector)
- penitentiary (Captain Dobey, You’re Dead)
- prison (Terror on the Docks, Silence, A Coffin for Starsky, Murder on Stage 17, The Specialist)
- put away ( Jojo, Murder Ward, The Crying Child, The Heavyweight)
- sent up (The Crying Child, Fatal Charm)
- slammer (Jojo, Pilot, The Bounty Hunter, Little Girl Lost, Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road, The Heroes, Manchild on the Streets, The Committee)
- slams (The Groupie)
- shadows of bars, to be in (Huggy Bear Can’t Go Home)
- tank (The Las Vegas Strangler, Jojo, The Bounty Hunter)
- up the river (The Set-Up)
- wearing prison gray (Blindfold)
Death by Violence
- blast (Survival)
- blow away (The Bounty Hunter, The Trap, The Heavyweight, The Velvet Jungle, Foxy Lady, Shootout)
- blow him/her out (Manchild on the Streets)
- bought it (The Committee, Snowstorm)
- bump off (The Psychic)
- burn (Death Ride, Class in Crime, Terror on the Docks, various)
- burned away (The Set-Up)
- bury (Moonshine)
- buy it (The Committee, Snowstorm)
- check out (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- come to the end of his career (Iron Mike)
- did (Murder at Sea, Manchild on the Streets)
- do (Lady Blue)
- don’t want to see her no more (Bust Amboy)
- dreamland (The Fix)
- dusted (Quadromania, The Heavyweight)
- eat dirt (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- eliminate (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- finish (Gilliam, Jojo)
- fry (Kill Huggy Bear)
- go (The Trap)
- go out (Shootout)
- gone (Kill Huggy Bear)
- hit (Snowstorm, Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Jojo, A Coffin for Starsky)
- ice (The Fix)
- knock off (Snowstorm, Bloodbath)
- laid out (Shootout)
- laid out on a slab (The Action, The Heavyweight)
- long gone (Running)
- long walk in the woods (Moonshine)
- make recently departed (The Trap)
- marked off (The Set-Up)
- mulched (Pilot)
- nail (The Trap, The Committee)
- never speaks to anyone ever again (Starsky’s Brother)
- no more peanuts (The Bounty Hunter)
- off (The Bait)
- on ice (The Heavyweight)
- pick off (A Body Worth Guarding)
- plant deep (The Action)
- put away (Losing Streak, Moonshine, The Hostages)
- put him off (Moonshine)
- put in a box (The Heavyweight)
- put in cold storage (The Heavyweight)
- put out of misery (Shootout)
- send looking for offshore oil, way offshore (The Action)
- shut down (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- slip off (The Fix)
- smear (The Heroes)
- snuff (Snowstorm, The Action, Foxy Lady)
- snuff out (Kill Huggy Bear)
- splash (Pilot)
- split up someone’s head (The Collector)
- strike (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- swallow a car for dessert (Targets Without a Badge: Part 2)
- take a long walk in the woods (Moonshine)
- take care of (Gillian, Starsky’s Brother, The Hostages)
- take out (The FIx)
- third hole in the middle of forehead (Snowstorm)
- troubles will be over (The Fix)
- turn one’s toes up (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Terror on the Docks)
- ventilate (Bloodbath)
- wallpaper (Photo Finish)
- wash up on the beach (The Bait)
- waste (Gillian, Bust Amboy, Running, Pariah, Shootout, Dandruff, Pilot)
- wind up on a slab (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- wipe away (Photo Finish)
Disreputable Men
- ape (The Action)
- bird (The Bounty Hunter)
- bum (A Coffin for Starsky, Snowstorm, Shootout, Lady Blue)
- cat (Running, Savage Sunday, Murder at Sea, Gillian, Jojo, Long Walk Down a Short Dirt Road, Murder Ward, The Fix, Pilot)
- chump (Savage Sunday)
- clown (The Bait)
- creep (Pilot, Iron Mike, The Fix, Death Notice, Texas Longhorn, Bloodbath, The Trap, The Committee, Death in a Different Place, Hutchinson for Murder One)
- crumb (A Coffin for Starsky, Bust Amboy, Iron Mike, The Action)
- degenerate (Lady Blue)
- dingo (Death Notice)
- dude (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart, Death in a Different Place, Manchild on the Streets, The Fix, Quadromania, The Trap, Hutchinson for Murder One)
- enforcer (Death Notice)
- fink (Snowstorm, The Fix)
- freak (Bloodbath, Partners)
- geese (Shootout)
- goon (A Body Worth Guarding, The Bounty Hunter, Murder Ward)
- gorilla (The Trap, The Action)
- hood (Death Ride, Iron Mike, Shootout, Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
- jerk (Murder on Stage 17, Shootout)
- john (The Fix)
- joker (Death Ride)
- loser (Bloodbath)
- lowlife (Pilot)
- mug (Murder Ward)
- “not one of your more attractive homo sapiens looking mean with a potential for ugly.” (The Trap)
- punk (Nightmare, Bloodbath, Death Notice, Lady Blue, Death in a Different Place, The Crying Child, The Heroes, Snowstorm, Kill Huggy Bear, The Specialist, Iron Mike)
- scram (The Plague)
- scum (Bust Amboy, Nightmare, The Fix, Iron Mike, The Velvet Jungle, Bloodbath)
- shark (Pilot, Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- slug (Jojo)
- soldier (Shootout)
- stooge (Kill Huggy Bear, The Set-Up)
- stoolie (The Fix)
- triggerman (Pilot)
- turkey (Bust Amboy, A Coffin for Starsky, Jojo, I Love You, Rosey Malone, Pariah, The Crying Child, Manchild on the Streets, The Heavyweight)
- weasel (Jojo, The Bounty Hunter)
- whippo (Starsky’s Lady)
- white-on-white (Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- wierdo (The Trap)
- yoyo (Texas Longhorn, Jojo)
Using the Bathroom
- business in the john (The Trap)
- can (Death Ride)
- check out the plumbing (Partners)
- comfort station (Satan’s Witches)
- freshen up (Foxy Lady)
- gonna float away (The Las Vegas Strangler)
- got to go to the bathroom (The Golden Angel)
- indisposed (The Trap, I Love You, Rosey Malone)
- john (The Trap, Shootout, The Collector)
- little boys’ room (Partners, The Collector, Blindfold)
- men’s room (Shootout, Sweet Revenge)
- restroom (Bloodbath, Pariah)
- powder my nose (Foxy Lady)
- reference to kidneys (The Las Vegas Strangler)
- service station (The Las Vegas Strangler)
- washroom (Murder at Sea)
Butt
- backside (The Heroes, The Las Vegas Strangler)
- behind (The Groupie)
- buns (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- butt (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- can (The Fix, The Specialist, Pariah)
- derriere (Murder at Sea)
- fanny (Class in Crime)
- sports section (Foxy Lady)
- tail (The Fix, Pilot, Savage Sunday, The Plague, Bloodbath, Snowstorm, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- tush (Discomania)
- your Raymond T. (Manchild on the Streets)
Cars
- buggy (Survival)
- chariot (Lady Blue)
- job (The Game)
- ride (Jojo, Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- short (The Fix, Jojo)
- wheels (Survival, The Bait)
Guns
- .45 (Birds of a Feather)
- ’Nam toy gun (Strange Justice)
- .32 caliber (The Committee)
- .38 caliber (Snowstorm)
- .38 special (Deckwatch, The Committee, Pilot)
- 9 mm (The Committee)
- armor (Blindfold)
- arms (The Action)
- automatic (The Trap, The Committee)
- Beretta (Pilot)
- cannon (The Trap, Photo Finish, Targets Without a Badge: Part 3)
- elephant gun (The Psychic)
- extra reach (The Psychic)
- gat (Murder Ward)
- hardware (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
- heater (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
- high-powered rifle (Class in Crime)
- howitzer (The Set-Up)
- lead (Photo Finish)
- machine gun (The Set-Up)
- magnum (Birds of a Feather)
- office equipment (The Groupie)
- peashooter (The Trap)
- piece (The Committee, Lady Blue, A Body Worth Guarding, A Coffin for Starsky, Snowstorm, The Groupie, Class in Crime)
- pistol (The Collector)
- protection (Birds of a Feather)
- rifle (The Set-Up)
- rod (Murder Ward)
- Saturday night special (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- semi-automatic/fully automatic (The Golden Angel)
- silenced automatic (Photo Finish)
Sexual Body Parts and Double Entendres
- “babushkas,” The crooks stealing coats comment on the “commie broads’” babushkas. (The Groupie)
- “bandeaus,” Hutch comments on swim suited woman’s “bandeaus.” (The Groupie)
- “bust,” ‘Yourself’, the dancer asks Hutch what kind of bust he is thinking of. (The Bounty Hunter)
- “doohickey,” Hutch says, “My doohickey got jammed.” Starsky replies with a smile, “I’m sure it did.” (Cover Girl)
- “jeans,” Starsky compliments woman on her “nice jeans.” (Murder At Sea)
- “nice specimens,” Hutch probably isn’t talking about the vegetation. (Starsky and Hutch on Voodoo Island)
- “nice spread,” Hutch comments on Marsha’s (Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back Into Your Heart)
- “printouts,” Starsky compliments Minnie on her printouts (Cover Girl)
- “signs,” Hutch compliments woman on her “large signs.” (Murder At Sea)
- “thingamajig,” Hutch took his date to the “whatchamacallit, gave her my thingamajig.” (Pilot)
- “tee shirt,” Hutch compliments woman on her nice tee shirt. (Murder at Sea)
Huggy’s Establishment
- “We aim to please, with everything from chitlins to Chinese,” Huggy tells Dobey. (The Bait)
- “Where the beer always has a head, and the host sometimes has a heart,” Huggy says. (Photo Finish)
- “Where the food always fits and guaranteed never to…guess,” (give you the shits?) Huggy says to Nick. (Starsky’s Brother)
- Huggy tells some patrons about the “concoction” he whipped up. “I aim to please.” (Starsky’s Brother)
- “You’re looking at the new proprietor of this joint,” Huggy says of The Pits. (The Collector)
- “You’ve dipped, you’ve sipped. We cash, no lip and if you dig what is hip, you’ll cough up a big tip,” says Huggy. (The Groupie)
- Huggy answers the phone, “Chez Huggy Bear’s.” (Texas Longhorn)
- Huggy answers the phone, “Huggy’s Pits.” (Huggy Can’t Go Home)
- Huggy refers to his place as “Huggy’s Pits,” to Starsky and Hutch when he brings them champagne. (Photo Finish)
- Huggy answers the phone, “The Pits, Lair of the Huggy Bear.” (Ninety Pounds of Trouble)
- Huggy calls it a “dip and sip.” (The Trap)
- Huggy refers to it as “Haute Cuisine That Won’t Split Your Spleen.” (The Action)
- Huggy says to Nick, “Huggy’s the name and my game is the same. The ladies they love me cause they all want to hug me.“ (Starsky’s Brother)
- Huggy says, “Where the elite meet and come to greet, fleet of feet who are so sweet with the finer things in life, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.” (Snowstorm)
- Hutch calls it “a club called The Pits.” (Huggy Bear and the Turkey)
- Starsky calls it a “pit stop.” (The Heavyweight)
- Starsky refers to “the old watering hole.” It may be The Pits. (Death in a Different Place)
Profanity Meter
- “Bastard,” Starsky. (Foxy Lady, A Body Worth Guarding, The Plague)
- “Bastard,” Dobey. (The Plague)
- “Shit” is snuck in by Merle. (Bloodbath)
- “Goddamn,” Sonny. (Survival)
- “Fuck,” appears to be mouthed by Hutch when he falls in the hospital hallway. (Sweet Revenge)
- Starsky sneakily flips Hutch the bird as he gives him the silver toe piece in the car. (Texas Longhorn)
