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A few of the words
- SPEAKEASY
- The name came from the instruction to 'speak easy' — keep your voice down and your whereabouts secret. New York alone is estimated to have had over 30,000 by the mid-1920s.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- SHIMMY
- The shimmy was a shoulder-shaking dance that scandalised polite society and became a signature move of the flapper generation — irresistible on a crowded dance floor.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- CHARLESTON
- Named after Charleston, South Carolina, this high-kicking, heel-flicking dance swept the world after its Broadway debut in 1923 and never really left the dance floor.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- BOOTLEG
- The term 'bootlegger' dates back to the 1880s, when smugglers concealed flasks inside their boot tops — a trick that found renewed purpose the moment Prohibition began in 1920.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Roaring Nightlife: a free large-print word search
Roaring Twenties nightlife word search — free and large-print. Step inside a smoky speakeasy, hear the jazz, and find the words hidden in the dark.
About Nostalgia & Eras
When Prohibition locked the front door, the party simply moved downstairs. Speakeasies bloomed in basements and back rooms across America, lit by low lamps and loud with the trumpet and the drum. Flappers in satin and pearls packed the dance floors, doing the Charleston until the small hours while the city hummed with a restless, glittering energy that no law could quite snuff out.
How to play
- 1Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
- 2It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
- 3Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.
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