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CONTENTS
About This Dictionary Terms and Symbols Pronunciation Dictionary Phrase-Finder Index
v xiv xvii
1-460 461-555
*
V
ABOUT THIS DICTIONARY
This dictionary is a collection of slang and colloquial expressions in frequent use in the United States in the twentieth century. It contains expressions that are familiar to many Americans and other expressions that are used primarily within small groups of people. The entries represent the language of the underworld, the nursery, the college campus, California beaches, urban back streets, and Wall Street. We hear from prisoners, surfers, junkies, Valley Girls, blacks, weight lifters, surfers, and just plain folks. Fad words, metaphors, wordplay, and various figures of speech make up the body of the dictionary.
The second edition of the new senses. These comprise
dictionary contains approximately 2,000 the expressions that have become popular in the last five years— including many new expressions used in everyday talk on the streets and the college campus. Notable among the collegiate expressions are numerous new ways to speak about vomiting. At the same time, the output of new drug slang has slowed or has
become more
private in
completely revised to
its
make
use.
The Phrase-Finder Index has been
finding the location of phrasal entries in
the dictionary easier.
There is no standard test that will decide what is slang or colloquial and what is not. Expressions that are identified as slang are often some type of entertaining wordplay, and they are almost always an alternative
way of saying something. Colloquial expressions are
usually
spoken and are often thought of as being direct, earthy, or quaint. Slang and colloquial expressions come in different forms: single words, compound words, simple phrases, idioms, and complete sentences. Slang is rarely the first choice of careful writers or speakers or anyone attempting to use language for formal, persuasive, or business purposes. Nonetheless, expressions that can be called slang or colloquial
make up
American communication in movies, newspapers, magazines, and informal conversation.
a major part of
vision, radio,
tele-
V
Localized fad words usually have a short life, but other kinds of slang expressions may spread and last for a long time. The farther they spread, the longer they will last. If they last long enough, they may become so well known that they become standard English unavoidably. Most such expressions simply join v an enormous pool of similar expressions, and they are used until displaced by newer terms. At some point the old ones are put on hold until they are forgotten by everyone or revived by a new generation. Many expressions that hang around for decades will pop up again and again in novels and movies or in sporadic use in the speech of the older generation.
For more than two hundred years, the jargon of criminals has been a major source of everyday slang words. Alcohol, drugs, and crime have been firmly fixed in the public consciousness since the time of prohibition in the United States. The entertainment value of crime and law enforcement has brought a constant stream of criminal slang into novels, movies, radio, and television over the last half century. This dictionary contains many of the expressions from these areas that have made public appearances over the years. Even more remain hidden behind closed doors. Matters of social taboo have also provided many slang expressions. Although strictly speaking taboo words are not slang, the major taboo words have been included in this dictionary. Young people are responsible for a high proportion of the fad expressions and collegiate wordplay found here. Clever or insulting nicknames for types of people are the major linguistic product of this subgroup.
Whereas many of the
entries are humorous or clever, others simply represent the everyday turns of phrase common to informal speech in the United States. Where possible, the examples are given in natural slangy language, even if it is ungrammatical in formal writing. The examples are to be taken as representative of slang usage, not of standard, formal English usage.
The grammar and
syntax of each expression are best determined from accompany each entry. The notion of "part of
the examples that
speech" is relevant to the function of individual words. The words within the clauses and phrases that are entries in the dictionary can be given part-of-speech labels, but it is the grammar and syntax of the entire phrase that is important. Each expression in the dictionary is assigned a "function code" that serves to indicate the functional potential of the entry expression. These codes represent function independently from form. That is to say, expressions that function the
same get the same
vi
label.
For instance, nouns, noun compounds, noun
phrases, and
noun clauses are
all
marked
n.
The codes Guide to the Use of the
for "nominal."
are described and illustrated in the section Dictionary.
Unlike standard English, few slang or colloquial expressions are standardized in spelling or punctuation. Standard dictionaries differ considerably as to whether a standard English compound is printed as one word, two words, or a hyphenated word. The spelling of slang entries is even more variable. This dictionary usually represents slang expressions in the form in which they were found in print, except for rhyming compounds, e.g., "fat-cat" or "funny-money," which are always hyphenated. entries come from many sources. Many have been collected and submitted by college students and other individuals. Much of the latest material has come directly from television and a lesser amount from contemporary radio. Standard reference works have been used to verify the meanings and spellings of older material. surprising amount of old material has been verified in reruns of old movies. Many attestations have come from contemporary journalism, especially human interest and Sunday supplement material. Few of the examples are verbatim quotes of the original. Some are concocted, and many more have been edited to exemplify an expression's meaning more concisely than the original quote. The examples exist to illustrate meaning, not to prove the earliest date of print or broadcast
The
A
dissemination.
Guide 1.
to the
Use of the Dictionary
Entries are alphabetized according to an absolute alphabetical order that ignores all punctuation. The hyphen is treated the same as a space. Entries beginning with numerals precede the
alphabetic entries. 2.
first step in finding an expression is to try looking it up in the dictionary. Entries that consist of two or more words are entered in their normal order, such as chill someone's action.
The
Phrases are never inverted or reordered someone's or track, off the. 3.
like
action,
chill
If you do not find the expression you want, or if you camiot decide on the exact form of the expression, look up any major word in the expression in the Phrase-Finder Index, which begins on page 461. There you will find all the multiword expressions
vii
word you have looked up. Pick out the expreswant and look it up in the dictionary.
that contain the
sion you
4.
5.
Entry expressions appear in boldface type. When words or expressions that are not entries in this dictionary are cited, they appear in italics. Function codes [see item 9 below] and examples appear in italics.
A
main entry may have one or more
alternative forms.
The
and are preceded by "and." Alternative forms are separated by a semicolon. For alternatives are printed in boldface type
example: spondulicks and spondulix; spondulics [span'duhks] n. money. How much spondulicks will this set / don't have enough me back? spondulix to swing the deal. 6.
Definitions are in
roman
type. Alternative or closely related
definitions are separated by semicolons.
For example:
take a hike and take a walk tr. to leave; to beat it. Okay, I've had it / with you. Take a hike! Beat it! had enough of the boss and the whole place, so I cleaned out my desk and took a walk. 7.
Some
definitions contain restrictive
that help to
the context in
comments
in
parentheses
These comments limit which the expression can be used. For example:
make
the definition clearer.
blindside
tr.
(for
someone or some-
thing) to surprise
someone, as
if
sneaking up on the blind side of a one-eyed person (or animal). The new tax law blindsided about
The mugger half the population. came up and blindsided her with a blow to the head before she knew what had happened. 8.
A definition may be followed by comments in parentheses. These comments
viii
give
additional information
about the expression,
comments on origins, or indications of Each numbered sense can have its own com-
including any cautions, cross-referencing.
ments. For example:
dickens
the devil. (Always with
1. n.
She was going to kick the dickens out of me. I felt as bad as the dickens, but what could I do? 2. the.)
n.
a devilish or impish child. (Also a
Come here, you
term of address.) little
dickens.
little
dickens!
You
are such a cute
Every expression is followed by a function code that indicates the grammatical or syntactic function of the expression. These codes are in italics. The function codes provide a way of determining the grammatical or syntactic function of a particular expression as it occurs in its examples. Expressions functioning as nominals (nouns, noun phrases, etc.) are marked n. Expressions serving to modify,
or qualify (adjectives, adjective phrases, adverbs,
restrict,
adverb phrases, etc.) are marked mod. Expressions that are transitive verbs or transitive verb phrases (a transitive verb, its auxiliaries, object(s), and modifier(s) are marked tr. Expressions that are intransitive verbs or intransitive verb phrases (an
and modifiers) are marked in. Other abbreviations are explained in the section titled Terms and Symbols. For example: intransitive verb, its auxiliaries,
mod. (of persons) best; topShe is an ace reporter with the newspaper. Frank is an ace swimmer. 2. n. one dollar. Give me an ace. I have to get some teleIt only costs an phone change.
ace
1.
rated.
ace.
Buy
easily,
two.
3.
A
tr.
to pass a test
(Compare Man, I really aced / knew I wouldn't ace it,
with an
grade.
to ace out.) that
test.
but I never thought I'd flunk it! 4. n. a nickname for a foolish and ineffectual person. (Sarcastic. Usually Hey, ace, a term of address.)
hand me that monkey wrench— ifyou know what one is. Look, ace, you can't expect to fix
an engine without ix
getting dirty. 5.
to surpass
tr.
one or something; or something; to
some-
someone ace someone out. to beat
The Japanese firm aced the Americans by getting the device onto the shelves first. Fred aced Tom in the contest for the best beard.
10.
Some expressions that are modifiers (marked mod.) can occur before or after the things they modify. Other modifiers can occur both before and after the things they modify. The distribution of modifiers is illustrated in the examples. For example: sad mod. poor; undesirable. This is a sad excuse for a car! That was a sad pitch there at the end of the last This steak
inning.
11.
is
really sad.
Many expressions have more than one major sense or meaning. These meanings are numbered with boldface numerals. For example: 1. tr. to cheat or swindle someone; to overcharge someone. That street merchant stung me, but They are likely to sting you good. in any of those hockshops. 2. n. a well-planned scheme to entrap
sting
The sting came off with-
criminals.
out a hitch. It was a well-planned sting and shouldn't have failed. 3. tr. to entrap and arrest someone. The feebies stung the whole gang at once. "We've been stung!" they hollered.
12.
Sometimes a numbered sense will have an alternative form that does not apply to the other senses. In such cases the and and the alternative forms follow the numeral. For example: birdbrain
a stupid-acting perbirdbrain. Stop it! I'm such a birdbrain. I forgot my
son.
x
1. n.
You
silly
driver's licence, officer. 2.
and
brained mod. stupid.
I've never
bird-
.
heard such a birdbrain idea in my Look, you birdbrained idiot, life. you are dead wrong! 13.
Entries that contain unfamiliar words and entries
whose
spelling
misleading have an indication of pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet symbols. See the symbols and their values in the Pronunciation Guide. is
Pronunciation
may be
for the entire expression
whammy
triple
... or only part of
[trip]
.
.
Mas mi]
it:
beer and skittles
[.
.
.
skidlz]
Alternative pronunciations are separated by or:
or
anti ['aenti
'aentai]
Pronunciation coordinated with alternative entry forms are separated by and: legal-beagle
and
'bigl
14.
In
some
and
comments
entries
legal-eagle
[
ligj-
'ligl igl]
direct the user to other entries for
additional information through the use of the terms to,"
"see," or "see also."
"compare
The expressions mentioned
are in
slanted sans serif type. For example: B-ball
n.
basketball;
a
basketball.
Compare go play some
(See also hoops. ball.)
Toss 15.
When
to
V-
B-ball.
me the B-ball, huh?
additional forms of an expression are to be found at
another entry, a at the
Let's
end of the
comment beginning entry.
with
"More
at ..." is
found
For example:
bamboozle [baem buzl] tr. to deceive someone; to confuse someone. Don't try to bamboozle me! I know xi
what I want! boozled the old savings.
16.
(More
The crooks bamout of his life bamboozled.)
man
at
some instances an expression that is an entry in the dictionary used to define another word. Such expressions are in slanted sans seriftype. For example:
In is
n. a hidden speed trap that by a bear. (Citizens band radio.) That whole town is a glo/ got caught in a rified bear trap. bear trap.
bear trap
was
17.
set
an entry has a grammatical structure that requires a nominal nominal is represented by someone for human nominals or something for nonhuman nominals. When both human and nonhuman nominals are possible, someone or something is used. For example: If
to serve as a subject or object, the
saddled with someone or something mod. burdened with someone or something. I've been saddled with the children all day. Let's go out tonight. / don 7 want to be saddled with your work. 18.
Sometimes the numbered senses refer to only people or things, but not both. In such cases the numeral is followed by "[with someone]" or "[with something]" For example: lay
someone or something out 1. tr. someone] to scold someone
[with
Don't lay
severely.
didn't
do
it!
me
out! I
\T\She really laid out the
guy but good. What did he do, rob a bank? (More at laid out) 2. tr. [with someone] to knock someone down with a punch. / can't wait to get into that ring and lay the guy out. The boxer laid out his opponent with a blow to the head. 3. tr. [with something] to spend some amount of money. / can't lay that kind of
S
money out xii
every day!
S She laid out
about $24,000 for that beemer. 4. tr. [with something] to explain a plan of action or a sequence of events. Let me lay it out for you. Ill Lay out the plan very carefully, and don't skip anything. 5. tr. [with someone] to prepare someone for burial. (Not slang.) The undertaker did not lay
Aunt Fanny out
to
my
satis-
The women of the town helped the young widow lay out her
faction. CD
husband. (More at laid out.) In an entry phrase, parentheses can be used to collapse two or three semantically related phrases into one. The phrase waffle (around) stands for waffle and waffle around. The phrase (baby) boomer stands for boomer and baby boomer. The phrase come clean (with someone) (about something) stands for come clean, come clean with someone, come clean about something, and
come clean with someone about something.
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TERMS AND SYMBOLS
marks the beginning of an example.
marks the beginning of an example in which two elements of the phrase, usually a particle and an object, are transposed.
OB
acronym an abbreviation a single word, as with
consisting of a set of initials
pronounced
as
UNESCO,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
advertising used in advertisements or marketing jargon.
Amerindian related
and
to
American Indian languages or
cultures.
form Guide to
indicates an alternative element, either an alternative entry
or an alternative pronunciation. See items 5 and 12 in the the Use of the Dictionary.
baby talk used by infants or children
when
or,
more
typically,
by adults
talking to infants or children.
black typically used by or originated by African Americans.
blend made up of sounds from two other words, such as smoke + fog = smog. California originating
among
the young people of California.
catch phrase an expression that its cleverness or aptness. collegiate typically
is
meant
to catch attention
because of
heard on college campuses.
combining form a sense of a word used only another word, as with bug in camera bug.
in
combination with
deliberate spoonerism a deliberate interchanging of initial consonants in a pair of words, such as "queer old dean" for "dear old queen."
drugs having to do with
illegal
drugs and the sale and use of drugs.
euphemistic relatively refined and having no negative connotations. exclam. exclamation.
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eye-dialect a type of respelling of a
been spoken with a regional accent, folksy in the
word so
that
it
appears to have
as with "sez" for "says."
manner of country people;
rustic
and quaint.
function code an indication of the grammatical or syntactic potential of a particular sense of an expression. See item 9 in the Guide to the Use of the Dictionary and exclam., in., interj., interrog, mod., n., phr., prep., pro., sent.,
and
tr.
in this section.
intransitive. Expressions that are intransitive verbs or intransitive verb phrases (an intransitive verb, its auxiliaries, and modifiers) are
in.
marked
in.
interjection.
interj.
interrog.
interrogative.
initialism an abbreviation consisting of the initial letters of the
being shortened.
The
letters are
pronounced one by one,
words
as with
"IBM." jargon the specialized terminology of an occupation; shoptalk. journalistic as used in popular journalism— newspapers
and maga-
zines.
juvenile as might be said by a child.
mod. modifier. Expressions serving to modify, restrict, or qualify (adjectives, adjective phrases, adverbs, adverb phrases, etc.) are marked mod. n.
nominal.
Expressions
phrases, etc.) are
marked
functioning
as
nominals
(nouns,
noun
n.
onomatopoetic having to do with a word with a sound suggesting the meaning of the word, as with vroom, the sound of an engine. phr.
phrase.
Pig Latin a form of wordplay where the second part of a word is placed before the initial sound, which then ends in "ay," as with "unkjay" for "junk."
play on referring to wordplay that is based on a particular expression. For instance, "eagle-freak" is a play on "eco freak." police prep, pro.
from the speech of law enforcement
officers.
preposition.
pronoun. xv
prohibition indicates an expression that came into use during the prohibition of alcohol in the United States during the 1920's and early 1930's.
do with the stock markets, the bond markets, or the sale of other financial instruments.
securities market(s) having to
see
Go to the entry indicated.
see also Find additional information at the entry indicated. sent,
sentence.
standard English widely known English, not usually considered slang or colloquial. streets originating in the streets of
taboo indicates an expression that
urban America. is
regarded as out of place
in public
use.
term of address an expression that can be used to address someone directly.
transitive. Expressions that are transitive verbs or transitive verb phrases (a transitive verb and its auxiliaries, object(s), and modi-
tr.
fier^)) are
marked tr.
underworld from criminal speech or law enforcement. verbal
weapon an expression
that
is
typically
used to
insult or
malign
someone.
Western speech Old West.
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typical of
Western movies or other stereotypes of the
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Some
expressions in the dictionary are followed by a phonetic transAlphabet (IPA) symbols. These expressions include words whose pronunciation is not predictable from their spellings, difficult or unfamiliar words, and words where the stress placement is contrastive or unique. The style of pronunciation reflected here is informal and tends to fit the register in which the expression would normally be used. [d] is used for the alveolar flap typical in American pronunciations such as [wada^] 'water' and [a'naialedad] 'annihilated.' The transcriptions distinguish between [a] and [o] and between [w] and [m] even though not all Americans do so. In strict IPA fashion, [j] rather than the [y] substitute is used for the initial sound in "yellow." The most prominent syllable in a multisyllabic word is preceded'by a [']. cription in International Phonetic
A
The use of and or or in a phonetic transcription echoes the use of and or or in the preceding entry phrase. The use of ". ." in a transcription .
indicates that easy-to-pronounce
words have been omitted. Parenthe-
used in a transcription either correspond to parentheses in the preceding entry phrase or indicate optional elements in the transcription. For instance, in ['artsi 'kraef(t)si] 'artsy-craftsy,' the "t" may or may not be pronounced. ses
The the
following chart shows the
IPA symbols used
American English values
in the phonetic transcriptions.
To
for each of use the chart,
find the large phonetic symbol whose value you want to determine. The three English words to the right of the symbol contain examples of the sound for which the phonetic symbol stands. The letters in boldface type indicate where the sound in question is found in the English word.
first
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M r
,
f bird \ turtle
r
f
,
[n]
v
feel
W r
if
cow [au]
[h]
[ol
feet
W
leak
luk] n. an alluring or seductive look or glance, usually done by a woman. She blinked her bedroom eyes and gave him a come-hither look. She had mastered the come-hither look, but was not ready for the next part.
Come
off
1.
it!
rogantly!"
exclam. "Stop acting arOh, you're just one of us.
musicians; a small band.
Come off it! Come off it, Tiff. You're not the Queen of England. 2. exclam. "Give up your incorrect point of view!" Come off it! You 're wrong, and you
nation.)
know
Columbian
combo
kambo]
[
Colombian
(gold) See 1. n.
(gold).
a small group of
(From combiAndy started his own combo and made money from day one. You can make a good living with a combo. 2. n.
bo.
You
it.
ish position.
are arguing from a fool-
You're dead wrong.
Come
offit!
a combination of people or things.
Those two make an interesting comThe dish was a combo of fish,
garlic,
son.
and cream. 3. n. a bisexual perNobody would have thought that He's not a combo,
Fred's a combo.
come on
['kamon]
1.
n.
a lure; bait.
Forty people re-
(Usually come-on.)
sponded to the come-on published in the It's just a come on. Sunday paper.
Nobody
giving
is
away a decent color
TV
just for listening to a sales pitch. 2. n. an
he's just confused.
invitation; a sexual invitation. (Usually
[kambuzaledad]
comboozelated
mod.
alcohol intoxicated. (Collegiate.) believe I
How
am just a little comboozelated. did you get so comboozelated?
come clean thing)
(with someone) (about some-
in.
me
admit
to
someone. with
/
about
gonna have
(something)
/ wish you'd to
this
come
problem.
come clean
to
clean
You're
eventually.
letdown; a disappointment. (Usually
comedown.)
The
loss
of the race was
comedown for Willard. hard to face a comedown like that. to begin to recover
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from the
bedroom
eyes, giving
In the second scene, the entire on, and the audience loved it. The singer came on immediately. We knew we had a star. 4. in. to begin to well.
cast
came
become
friendly.
they began to
come down 1. in. to happen. Hey, man! What's coming down? When something like this comes down, I have to stop and think things over. 2. n. a
a real
She stared at him with her him that age-old Who could resist a comecome-on. on like that? 3. in. to begin to perform come-on.)
It's
3. in.
effects of
When
After a few minutes,
come on
to
each
other.
the nervousness of meeting a blind
Sam and Mary began to come on, and we could see it would be a
date passed,
in. to feel the effects of a drug; for a drug to take effect. (Drugs.) After what seemed a long time, I be-
success. 5.
gan
to
came then
it
come on
to the stuff.
When
on, I decided I didn't like
was too
late. 6.
it,
I
but
[kam'an] exclam.
company man
are wrong!" (Usually Come on!) Come on! This is a good set of clubs! Come on! Wasteful spending occurs
"You
of all governments! Nobody
at all levels is
innocent!
come on
See the
fol-
lowing entry.
press people initially as very aggressive
(See explanation at like gangbusters.) She has a tendency to come on strong, but she's really a softie. assertive.
The new president comes on strong at
come on
to
make adHe came on to
someone
in.
to
vances to a person. but she beat it outa there fast. She didn't even know he was coming on
her,
to her,
till
they got to his place.
come out ahead in. to end up with a profit; to end up with some benefit. / never seem to come out ahead at the end of the month. We'll come out ahead in the end. Just you wait. come out
in the wash in. to be dealt with in the normal chain of events. (As if someone were counselling someone
who had caused
a clothing stain.)
All of these things will come out in the wash. Whatever it is, it'll come out in the wash.
Don
't
worry.
come out on top
in.
end up to the
77m always has to come out on top— a classic poor loser. She made all the wrong moves and still came out on top.
come up
for air in. to pause for a break. The kissers— being only humanhad to come up for air eventually. They were taking in money so fast at the box office that there wasn 't a minute to come up for air.
comeback ['ksmbaek]
a retort; back is pretty fast with the come1. n.
Hank One more snotty comeback like
talk.
back.
and you 're former
finished. 2. n. a return
state.
The aging singer
and make a comeback. Her comeback was not a financial
tried to
sober up
success, but
a bright
Fred is a real comer. You '11 be A comer like hearing a lot about him. that can command a high salary. [kam'apants] n. a wellHe finally got the deserved rebuke. comeuppance that he's needed for so I gave her a comeuppance she'll long. never forget.
comfort station
it
a restroom; toilet
1. n.
facilities available to
the public.
Do
you have a comfort station in this store? We need to stop and find a comfort station in the next town. 2. n. an esget
some
sells liquor.
Let's
belch at a comfort station
There's cops along here somewhere. all around that comfort station. Somebody must have robbed it.
comfy ['k9m(p)fi] mod. comfortable. / find This is a very comfy chair. myself in a not too comfy position with regard to your further employment here.
coming out of one's ears mod.
in great
abundance. Mr. Wilson has money Borrow some coming out of his ears. paper from Chuck. He's got it coming out of his
ears.
comma-counter n. a pedantic person. Comma-counters can be such a pain. When you need a proofreader, you need a comma-counter.
to
better; to win.
to a
ksm^] n. someone with
tablishment that
first.
that
[
future.
comeuppance gangbusters
like
come on strong and come on like gangbusters in. to seem aggressive; to imand
comer
improved her spirits.
commie [kami]n. a communist. are the commies up to now? commies are price went
selling
down a
What The
gold today, and the
lot.
commode-hugging drunk mod. heavily alcohol intoxicated; drunk and vomBruno got commode-hugging iting. space of two hours. / by the sounds coming from the bathroom that Ernie had come home
drunk could
in the
tell
commode-hugging drunk again.
company
bull
who works
n.
a detective or guard
for a private firm.
Pete
is
a company bull for Acme Systems. He works nights. The company bull asked what we were doing there.
company man
n. a man with his employers.
who
always sides
Ken 's a company 79
con
man— he'll side.
man con
to
always take management's
1. n.
for a pet.
cell
guy in the gray pajamas one of the escaped cons? 2. n. a confidence scheme. They pulled a real con on the old lady. This is an okay con you
Is that
got going. 3.
tr.
to swindle or deceive
Don
con me. I know Bruno conned him out of
someone. the score.
't
try to
money.
We
tomorrow.
One of the cons
a convict.
keeps a snake in his
his
on this matter connected over a drink and discussed the matter fully. 2. in. [with something] [for a batter] to hit a ball. Wally connected for a double. He swung, but didn't connect with the Let's try to connect
You can depend on a company do as he is told.
v
ball.
connection
who
n.
a seller of drugs;
Max's connection got roust-
drugs.)
This connection you keep taking
ed.
about— is he dependable? conniption (fit) [ka'nipjan .] n. a burst He had a connipof anger; a spaz. tion fit over the question of my marriage Come on, don't have a to Wally. .
con artist See con man. con job n. an act of deception. What This a con job he tried to pull on us! is not an annual report! It's a con job! con
man and con artist
makes
someone who
n.
a living by swindling people.
Gary is a con on the dole. but he's just a
artist,
but at least he 's not
He looks like a
con man,
Put your conk and konk n. the head. brim on your conk, and let's cruise. Where 'd you get that nasty bump on your konk?
[konkbasta n. inferior liAnother shot of that conkquor. buster and I will just pass out. Jed kept a jar of conk-buster under his bed
conk-buster
1
-]
against night sweats. [for someone] to colwas so tired I just went, home and conked out. / was afraid I would conk out while I was driving. 2. in. [for something] to break down; to quit run/ ning. My car conked out finally. hope my computer doesn conk out.
lapse.
1. in.
/
't
connect (with someone or something) in.
[with
someone]
to talk to
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conniption! n. the first drink or dose of drugs of the day. (See also breakfast He downed a conof champions.) stitutional and made ready to set out
He never fails
office.
to
drop a
constitutional in the morning.
Some conehead 1. n. a fool; an oaf. conehead put sugar in the salt shaker. You can be pretty much of a conehead yourself sometimes, you know. 2. The n. an intellectual; a pointy-head. coneheads have decided that we are all making too much money. They build fences around universities to keep the coneheads in.
conk out
.
constitutional
for the
sweetie.
someone
a source for drugs. (Originally
is
to
1.
meet someone;
someone on the telephone.
and cuckoo
1. mod. unconscious. him on the snoot and Rocko was knocked him coo-coo. cuckoo for a minute; then he was up The and swinging. 2. mod. insane.
coo-coo
/ socked
How chick is just cuckoo, that's all. did I ever get involved in this cuckoo scheme, anyway?
cooked mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. Pete
is
drunk.
cooked
baked—
cooked,
fried, boiled,
Gary
calling a cab. He's too
is
to drive.
cooked up mod. contrived. (This is hyThe phenated before a nominal.) whole thing seems so cooked up. What a cooked-up story! Of course, you don 't believe it. cookie pusher
one who
1. n.
a bootlicker; some-
other people for selfWhen you've got serving motives. a whole office full of cookie pushers, flatters
always someone to take you to Another cookie pusher came in today to tell me what a great teacher I Is Martin am. 2. n. a lazy do-nothing. a couch potato or a cookie pusher? That I'm just looking for a is the question! there's
lunch.
cookie pusher to fire today.
cop a head
cooking with gas in. doing exactly right. That's great! Now (Always with -ing.) / knew she you're cooking with gas! was finally cooking with gas when she answered all the questions correctly. cool
keep one's
This chick
one's cool.)
is
This
Then
like,
this,
out everybody, but that was a waste of
so cool—
time.
a really cool setup! cool muscleman comes
over and asks Tiffany if she'd like to dance. 3. mod. (of music) mellow; smooth. This stuff is so cool, I'm just Doesn 't he blow a cool trumfloating. pet? 4. mod. no less than (some amount of money).
He
every year.
She cleared a cool
die; to
he would
forty
deal. 5. in. to
after death.
(Medi-
The patient cooled
euphemism.)
cal
We
during surgery.
cool to
cooled out mod. calm; unabashed. Ted is a really cooled out kind of guy. When she's cooled out, she's great. cooler
n. jail.
a
little
Let
time in the cooler?
cooties [kudiz] n. real or imagined lice.
had with
Randy pulled back from me
like I
cooties or something. What's
wrong
me?
You have cooties, crotchand bad breath. What do you
pheasants, expect?
cop
1.
to take or steal something.
tr.
(Originally underworld.)
Cool bananas! See the following entry.
"Wow!"
and Cool bananas!
exclam.
Cool beans, man. That's You got a car? Cool bananas!
great!
cool, calm,
and
mod.
cool; unalmost always cool, calm, and collected. Before a race I am anything but cool, calm, and
abashed.
collected
Albert
is
collected.
cool cat
n.
a male. like
cats
someone who is cool, Monty is a cool cat.
him.
on
There
is
usually I really
a shortage of cool
this turf.
down
in. to calm down. Now, down. Chill, chill. Everything's gonna be real cool When things cool down around here, life will be much
cool
me outa
this cooler!
were afraid that
cool.
Cool beans!
Do
(Usually with the.)
you want to talk, or do you want to spend
earns a cool million
become cold
at
re-
is
thousand on the Wilson
was fine. (More
cool, lose
She is totally no matter what happens. cool and easygoing. 2. mod. good; excellent.
everything
cooled out.)
someone out tr. to calm someone; Cool yourselves appease someone. out, you people. We gotta be sensible. d The manager appeared and tried to cool
mod. unabashed; unruffled;
1.
laxed. (See also
and
gency,
Somebody
copped the statue from the town square. Who copped the salt from this table? They 2. n. a theft. (Underworld.) It pulled the cop in broad daylight. was a lousy cop. No skill. No finesse. 3. The cop wasn't in n. a police officer. any mood to put up with any monkey
You
business.
call the cops. I've got
enough trouble. 4. tr. to arrest someone. The officer copped him and read him his rights. They copped Bruno with the evidence right on him. (More at It was a copped.) 5. n. an arrest. smooth cop. No muss, no fuss. The cop went off without a hitch except for a few little insults.
just cool
more Cool
liveable.
exclam.
it!
easy!
Cool
cool off right.
in.
it!
to
Cool
"Calm down!"
Come
calm down. /
off!
Take it
on, cool
knew
it,
Now, things
Now,
in.
to
calm down; to man. This
just cool out,
tr.
to
smoke
a cigarette. (See
She kept going off to the Smokers who cop a drag. leave the office to cop a drag
also drag.)
john to have to must cost
this
nation billions each year.
man! it's
all
would
cool off eventually. cool out
cop a drag
relax. will pass.
Everybody cooled out after the emer-
cop a fix tr. to obtain a dose of drugs. She was gonna, like, die if she didn cop a fix pretty soon. She carries her apps so she can cop a fix whenever. 't
cop a head
tr.
to
become
alcohol or drug
He was mad and deand went home having decided
intoxicated.
pressed
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cop a plea
to
cop a head.
The two old codgers sat
there copping a head, or trying to anyway.
cop a plea
tr.
to plead guilty to a lesser
Rocko copped a plea and got
charge.
week in the slammer. / cop a plea, but didn't have the
off with a
wanted
to
chance.
cop a squat
Come
in
tr. to sit down. Hey, man! and cop a squat. Cop a
"cops" or "takes." See also cop.) See He busted me once. The coppers will catch up with that copper over there?
you some day.
2. n.
money. (From cop-
How
per penny. See also rivets.) much copper you got on you? car takes too much copper to run.
copy
That
a piece, as in an item produced.
n.
We sell the toy at $14 a copy.
These
cars cost over $20,000 a copy.
squat and crack a tube.
cop a tube tr. to catch a perfect tubular wave. (Surfers.) He was a real pro at copping a tube, and always just the right one. Mark— as drunk as all get out— said he was gonna go out and cop a tube.
copycat n. someone who mimics or copies the actions of others. Don't be such a copycat. Find a style that suits you. Jim is a real copycat. He can say anything you say, just the way you say it.
cop an attitude
corked (up)
and corky mod.
toxicated.
You seem
tr. to take a negative or opposite attitude about something.
(See also tude.) Look, chum, don't cop an attitude with me! I think you're copping an attitude. Not advised, man.
Not advised. cop out
1. in.
cop a Frank copped out and got off
charge). (Underworld. See also plea.)
with a night in the cooler. / decided not to cop out and got a mouthpiece instead. 2.
in.
up and
to give
quit; to
chicken out (of something). Why do you want to cop out just when things are going great? / couldn't cop out on you guys if I wanted to. 3. n. a poor excuse to get out of something. (Usually copout or copout.) This is a silly copout. That's not a good reason, that's just a cop-out.
cop-shop n. a police station. They hauled off everybody to the cop-shop. The pigs down at the cop-shop tried to act like they didn't
know who Max
cop some Z's See catch some
ably
is
(Originally
black.
from French.)
copasetic.
better.
This
Jed got himself / was copped for
doing absolutely nothing at
copper
is
day.
copped mod. arrestedspeeder.
Prob-
Everything
Couldn't be
one fine copasetic
copped— a
all.
a police officer. (Originally underworld. Because the copper
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1.
n.
corker
little
too, if
someone or something good,
n.
That was a
real corker. I thought I'd die laughing.
Tracy
is
quite a corker. I bet she's fun
at parties.
corkscrewed (up) mod. courageous because of alcohol; with one's courage screwed by alcohol. After getting himself corkscrewed up, he went into the He used a bit boss 's office for a word. of vodka to get corkscrewed enough to
demand a
raise.
corky Set corked (up). 1. n. a stupid or corny person. Who He's a cornball, but he's fun. invited this cornball to my party? 2. mod. What a cornball stupid or corny. Ken is such a cornball hick! idea!
cornball
was.
Z's.
copasetic [kopa'sedik] mod. agreeable; satisfactory.
You'd be corked up, you'd drunk as much as I have. corked.
funny, or entertaining. to plead guilty (to a lesser
alcohol in-
to be a
The corned mod. alcohol intoxicated. old timer is corned on moonshine. Let's go out and get comed. cornfed
mod.
phisticated.
rural;
backwards; unso-
/ enjoy her honest, corn-
Jed is a homey, comfed fed humor. kind of guy. Don't know anybody who bears
him any ill
will.
mod. having to do with simpleThis minded, overdrawn humor. corny dialog has to be revised before Til
corny
1.
act in this play.
Don
't
be corny. This
is
coyote-ugly
mod. having to do with overThe love scenes were done sentiment.
serious. 2.
your corny hands-off-the-naughty -parts Harry events, but nobody laughed. always laughs at corny mush in a movie. corpse
empty liquor or beer Sam (See also dead soldier.)
bottle.
an«
n.
1.
tossed another corpse out the window.
Throw your corpses in the trash can, The you jerk! 2. n. a cigarette butt. wino picked up the corpse and put it in a little box of them he carried with him.
He
is
saving corpses to build a real
smoke. corral dust n. nonsense,
and exag-
lies,
(A euphemism
geration.
for bullshit.)
The way Judy handles the corral dust, she must be running for political office. That stuff
is
all corral dust.
Don
't
word of it.
believe a
This cosmic mod. excellent; powerful. Who wants pizza is absolutely cosmic! to see a really cosmic movie?
worthless;
and
cotton-pickin' mod.
damned.
What's
(Folksy.)
Who
idea?
the
cotton-pickin'
this
cotton-picking bigwig pushing us
is
to get really
county-mounty cer. (Citizens
n.
a highway patrol
band
couch-doctor chiatrist;
and couch-turkey
a
n.
county-mounty waiting under that bridge The county-mounty ahead of you. wrote me seven tickets in that one roust. n. a small-time drug seller; a drug runner; a carrier of contraband. The cops can catch the (Drugs.) couriers whenever they want. It's the big The couriers are guys they're after.
courier
expendable.
an act of concealing someThe cover-up drew more attention than whatever it was that was covered up. The candidate accused her opponent of a cover-up.
cover-up
n.
thing.
cow
n.
a fat or ugly
woman.
(Cruel.)
That cow can hardly get through the
Wouldn you think a cow would go on a diet?
door.
't
like
There's n. dried cow dung. a whole field of cow chips out there! Why do you want to buy a bag of the Break up these stuff at a nursery?
cow chips
the soil
a psy-
Some
psychoanalyst.
offi-
There's a
radio.)
cow chips and work them into around the base of the bushes.
around?
couch-doctor told her to go out and find a lover. / finally walked out on my couch-turkey. Now I'm getting it all to-
cow-doots of
[.
.
cow dung; masses
,'duts] n.
Don was
cow dung.
walking
through the pasture gathering cow-doots
Don't step
to use as fertilizer.
in the
cow-doots.
gether.
couch potato
n.
a lazy, do-nothing tele-
vision watcher. (See also sofa spud.) // there
was a prize for the
best
my husband would win
potato,
it.
couch
You
are turning into a perfect couch potato.
cough something up
tr.
to
and cow plop
n.
Mrs. Wilson
is
a mass of cow out in the pasture gathering cow flops for her garden. Cow plops are not all the same, you
cow
flop
dung.
know.
cow juice See
couch-turkey See couch-doctor.
produce some-
someone has requested),
moo juice.
cow plop See cow flop.
buster,
cowboy n. a reckless and independent man; a reckless driver. (Also a term of
You owe me seven Now, cough them up! Cough up what you owe me!
your coffee and get moving. Some cowboy in a new caddy cut in front of me.
thing (which usually
cough
it
money. up, now!
Come
on,
stereo amplifiers.
U
know how
The cowboy,
old boys
country drunk this time, got to town somehow and started a fight.
that
cotton-pickin' See the following entry.
cotton -picking
Them good
country drunk.
country drunk mod. alcohol intoxicated;
drunk and disorganized. (Folksy.)
Come
address.)
coyote-ugly
[
on, cowboy, finish
kaiot agli
mod. extremely
ugly.
or
kaioti
agli]
(Crude, cruel, and
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cozy
potentially offensive. Said of people.
See also double-bagger, triple-bagger. Supposedly, if one woke up and found one's arm around a coyote-ugly person, one would chew off one's arm— in the
manner of a coyote escaping from a steel-jaw trap— rather than pull it back away from
this person.)
pet monkey, or ugly?
is
Is that
your
your date just coyotemost coyote-ugly
Isn't that the
cozy up (to someone) in. to become overly friendly with someone in hope of gaining special favors. Tracy cozied
hoping for a good grade at She failed to read the syllabus,
to the prof,
least.
which advised students not to cozy up him at home.
to
the professor or call
crab
n.
a louse. (Usually plural.)
scratching like he's got crabs.
He's The old
wino and his crabs wandered into the little peace and quiet.
flop house for a
crack
1. n.
a joke; a smart-aleck remark.
Another crack will
be a
little
like that
flatter
than
and your nose it is.
Who
made that crack? 2. n. a try (that may or may not succeed). Have another crack at One more crack and I'll it.
have
it.
3. n.
a unit of something (for a
particular price); a use (of something).
You would think twice, too, if you remembered that it's seven dollars a crack. At two dollars a crack, this is the best game on the midway. 4. n. crystalline, smokable cocaine. (Drugs.) This crack seems to have become the drug of choice for punks of all ages. Crack became popular when it became easy and cheap to process. It's been around for years in medicinal form. 5. in. to break down and talk under pressure. (Underworld.) They kept at her till she finally cracked and talked. We knew you'd finally crack. 6. mod. (of a person) excellent; top-flight. The dealer's crack salesman was no help at all. With our crack staff, we can have everything worked out in no time. 7. tr. to break into something. (Under-
We
almost cracked the safe His specialoff. ty is cracking car trunks and stealing tires. world.)
before the alarm went
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semester.
crack a tube tr. to open a can of beer. Why don't you drop (See also tube.) over this evening and we'll crack a few tubes? Would you crack a tube for
me? My hands are too
creep you 've ever seen ?
up
tr. to open a book to study. (Usually in the negative.) / never cracked a book and still passed the course. Sally didn't crack a book all
crack a book
cold.
crack house n. a house or dwelling where crack is sold and used. (Drugs.) The police close
are
continuing their efforts to
down crack houses
in the area.
In one dilapidated neighborhood, there is
a crack house on every block.
crack open a bottle tr. to open a bottle Let's crack of liquor. (Also with the.) open a bottle and celebrate. HI He cracked the bottle open and poured a little for everyone to
try.
crack some suds tr. to drink some beer. Let's go out tonight and crack some The guys wanted to watch the suds. game and crack some suds.
crack someone up tr. to make someone laugh. She giggled, and that cracked us all up.
CD
The
lecturer
would
talk
along sort of boring like, and then all of a sudden he would crack up everybody with a joke.
crack up [kraek'ap] 1. in. to have a The plane cracked up and wreck. Whose killed two of the passengers. car cracked up on the expressway? 2. in. The whole to break out in laughter. / knew I would audience cracked up. crack up during the love scene. 3. in. The to have a nervous breakdown. poor guy cracked up. It was too much for You would crack up, too, if you him. had been through all he went through. 4. ['kraekap] n. an accident; a wreck. There was a terri(Usually crack-up.) There ble crack-up on the expressway. were four cars in the crack-up.
Did crackbrain n. a fool; a stupid oaf. you hear about the crackbrain who found part of the sky floating in the lake?
crap out
Sometimes you are quite a crackbrain yourself.
us a million dollars if we would play "My Blue Heaven" for two
letter promised
hours each morning.
crackbrained mod. stupid; ridiculous. I've heard enough of your crackbrained schemes. One more crackbrained idea
and you're fired. cracked mod. crazy.
you think
I'll
be cracked
if
You're cracked
agree to that.
You
if
gotta
you think I'm going back
in there.
3. n.
a crank? Is something wrong in your life? The prof is such a crank; he jokes only about once a semester.
crank bugs tion
a drug-induced hallucina-
n.
['kraeka^aek] mod. excellent; industrious. Fred is a crackerjack stockbroker, but his personal life is a mess. Clare is a crackerjack teacher, but she is looking for something that pays a real salary.
crackerjack
under
that insects are crawling
/ have crank
one's skin. (Drugs.)
and I'm cartooning, no such thing as crank bugs,
cracked up to be mod. supposed to be. This pizza isn't what it's cracked up to be. / wanted to find out whether this stuff was what it is cracked up to be.
a crabby per-
Why are you such
son. (Collegiate.)
There's
too.
so stop
bugs,
scratching them.
crank something out tr. to produce something; to make a lot of something. She can crank mystery novels out like fury. They're all good, too. EE That man does nothing but crank out trouble.
crank something up 1. tr. to start something up. I'll go out and crank the car up so it can warm up. d Crank up the copying machine. We've got a big job
crackers See bonkers.
tr. to increase the volume of an electronic device. He cranked it up a little more and CRACK, there went both speakers! Kelly cranked up his stereo until we were nearly deafened.
to do. 2.
crackhead n. a user of crack. (Drugs.) They brought an eight-year-old crackhead in for treatment. Crackheads are a very serious problem in the nation 's work force.
W
cranking crackpot
1.
n.
a fake; a person with
Some
strange or crazy plans.
crack-
pot called to tell us that the sky is falling in. I'm no crackpot! I saw some of the sky floating in the lake. If it
had fallen on
someone might have been killed. 2. mod. having to do with crazy things, mainly ideas. We need a crackpot idea around here just so we'll have something to compare your ideas to. Why land,
not start a crackpot idea contest?
cram
in.
hard at the last minute She spent the night cram-
to study
for a test.
ming for the test. If you would study all the time, you wouldn need to cram. 't
crank called with a bomb threat. A crank came in and offered to punch me in the nose for a quarter. 2. mod. bogus. We had four crank calls threatening to blow up the Eiffel tower. A crank
is
exciting;
excellent.
We had
really cranking!
a massively cranking time at your set.
cranky mod.
Don't
irritable; fretful.
be cranky. We 're almost there. cranky today. The fuzz is on his
crap [kraep]
1. n.
Why don
Max is tail.
junk; worthless matter.
you just throw this crap Get your crap off my bed! 2. n.
away?
't
Use only
dung. (Potentially offensive. with discretion. Colloquial.)
dog crap on the lawn. in that crap. 3. n.
There's
Don't step
nonsense;
had enough of your straight, or out you go. 4. in.
crank 1. n. a crackpot; a bothersome person with a bogus message. A
mod.
This record
crap.
I've
lies.
Now
talk
Cut the crap!
to defecate. (Crude. Potentially
offensive.
Use only with
Your dog crapped on to crap; then
I'll
be
discretion.)
my lawn!
/
have
right with you.
crap out in. to evade something; to chicken out (of something). Now, don 't crap out on me at the last minute.
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craphouse
Fred crapped out* so there are only of us.
watch at somebody else's house. 7. in. [for a securities market] to lose a sig-
three
craphouse sive.
n.
nificant portion of
a privy. (Potentially offen-
Use only with
Walfy's out in the craphouse
quial.)
reading, I guess.
Where's the crapv
house that used to be out there?
its
value in a short
The market crashed and scared the stuffing out of everybody. When the bond market crashed, the press didn't time.
discretion. Collo-
even realize
it. 8. n. a collapse of a secumarket. After the crash, a lot of people swore off the market for good.
rities
crapper
1. n.
a
toilet, privy,
(Potentially offensive.
or restroom.
A
Use only with
See also crap. Colloquial.) Where's the crapper around here? Old Jed never passes up a chance to use an indoor crapper. 2. n. a braggart. (Crude.) The guy is a crapper and can't be trusted at all. Don't listen to discretion.
the crapper.
crash like that was too
n.
a police officer or detec-
who patrols public toilets.
tive
he flubbed up the Wilson
When
case,
they
made him
a crapper dick in the central business district. What's a crapper dick get paid?
crappy mod. bad; lousy; junky. This is sure one crappy day! Shut your crappy mouth! crapshoot
n. a gamble; a matter of chance. (Like a crap (dice) game.) Basically, life is a crapshoot. The stock market isn 't concerned with value anymore. It's just a crapshoot.
crash 1. tr. & in. to attend a party or other event uninvited. Some clown tried to crash the rally,
the cops.
pad.) the
my dad called
The boys who
also broke a window. 2. in. to
but
spend the
tried to crash
(More
at crasher.)
night. (See also crash
/ crashed at a friend's place in You have a place lean crash? a place to sleep. / think I know
city.
3. n.
Molly's on the of a crash for tonight. phone, looking for a crash. 4. in. [for a computer] to stop working. This thing crashes every time I hit a certain key. My machine hasn 't crashed since I got it. 5. n. a total failure of a computer. Most of my data was lost in the crash. Crashes are to teach you to back up your data. 6. in. [for any electronic device]
to
My stereo
fail.
crashed, so I've been watching
My 86
T. V.
crashed,
and
I
had
to
TV.
go out
to
for
crashes for good.
crash and burn fail brilliantly
crapper dick
much
a lot of people. 9. in. to pass out from drinking alcohol to excess. About midnight I crashed, and I woke up here. Let's get Wilbur home before he
in. [for a young man] to with a romance. (Colle-
giate. See also go down in flames.) / knew I would crash and burn with her. // stands to reason that if Ken hadn't
me
shot
down, I wouldn 't have crashed
and burned. crash pad
n.
a place to stay the night on
short notice.
a crash pad in
I've got
the city for emergencies like
this.
/
gotta find a crash pad for tonight.
crashed 1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred is crashed. Leave him alone. There were two crashed freshmen asleep on the lawn. 2. mod. raided by the police. (See also bust.) Our pad got crashed, and a lot of kids were arrested. After the place was crashed, it was a mess.
crasher ty
n.
who
a person
attends a par-
uninvited. (See also crash.)
The
and my dad The crashers were no
crashers ruined the party, called the cops.
more rude than
the guests.
Where'd a dilapidated vehicle. you get that old crate? This crate
crate gets
n.
me
to
work and back. That's good
enough. scar.
Ted has a
nasty crater on his cheek.
Walter was
crater
1. n.
an acne
always sort of embarrassed about his craters. 2. in. to
collapse
and go down as
with a falling stock price. The stock cratered and probably won 't recover for When my portfolio craa year or two. tered,
I thought
it
was the end of the
cricket
world. Then most of the prices came back up in a month.
crater-face
and
creep
n.
a weird person; an eerie person. is such a creep when he's
Charlie
/ thought Charlie was a creep
stoned.
pizza-face; pizza-puss n.
someone with an acne-scarred
no matter what.
face.
(Cruel. Collegiate. Also a term of ad-
Who's the crater-face putting the moves on Salty? Pizza-puss over there is talking sort of loud.
creep dive See the following entry.
dress.)
someone or something mod. covered with someone or something; alive with someone or something. The place was crawling with police and F.B.I, agents. The room was just crawling with ants.
crawling with
creep joint and creep dive n. an unpleasant place populated by creeps. You shouldn 't go into a creep joint like that alone.
Why would anyone want
work
like that?
to
in
a creep dive
creeping-crud 1. n. any unidentified disThere is some kind of creepease. ing-crud between my toes. / got the
my armpit.
creeping-crud growing in
crazy
crazy,
The guy's a
a crazy person.
1. n.
and he keeps coming
ing for money.
in here ask-
/ think the crazies are
taking over the world. 2. mod. cool.
This stuff
What a like
is really
man. I love
crazy,
crazy dress.
It
it!
makes you look
a repellent person.
such a creeping-crud since he inherited all that money. Don't be a creepingcrud. Just go back to being a plain crud. You 3. n. any nasty, slimy substance. got creeping-crud all over my pants leg.
a million.
That's not creeping-crud! That's
Ouch! I hit my crazy bone! Ken hit his crazy bone as he went into church, and was yelling "Oh! Oh! Oh!" as if the Spirit had got into him or something.
crazy bone
n.
the elbow.
cream tr. to beat someone; to outscore someone. The other team creamed us, but we had better team spirit. We'll cream 'em next week. 1. n.
a weakling; a wimp.
creeps
n.
the jitters; a case of nerves.
(Always with
This cream puff
lady.
and
is
creepy mod. eerie; frightening. this creepy feeling that this very
creamed
mod. beaten; outscored. that last game, and the coach is steamed. Midwest U. got creamed again today by the Podunk Badgers. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man, Tony is totally creamed! / got myself creamed last night, didn't I? 1.
am totally creased. football player. Let
What a day.
I
Here is one creased
him
hit the rack.
someone
I have is
just
moment reading something that This
is
the creepiest old house
in.
a location where thieves gather
1. n.
to plot; a dwelling for thieves, prostitutes, etc.
(Underworld.)
The police
busted a crib over on Fourth Street. They use a basement over there for
a
a dwelling. (Underworld.) Where's your crib, man? My good
crib. 2. n.
threads are all back at
We were really creamed in
creased mod. exhausted.
crib
loaded, air
everything.
These movies
the.)
me the creeps. The creeps always make me have to go to the john. always give
I have ever been
Don't be a cream puff all your life! Join a health club! We're having a cream puff special this week for you clowns who can 't climb stairs without panting. 2. n. a used car that is in very good condition. This one is a real cream puff. Only driven to church by a little old
my
pecan pie!
I wrote.
cream puff
2. n.
Watty has become
my crib.
n. an easy course in college. signed up for three crib courses and gym. What a twit! Andy thought
crib course
Tom
he was getting into a crib course, but turned out to be really hard. cricket
it
mod. acceptable. (Compare to
kosher. See negative examples at not cricket.) Is it really cricket to play un-
der two different names? it's
Who cares if
cricket!
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crisco
['knsko]
crisco
n.
a fat person. (Cruel.
Also a rude term of address. The brand name of a baking shortening.) Some crisco
came
and ordered ten Go on a diet!
in
large
Hey, crisco!
fries.
cross-eyed (drunk) mod. alcohol intoxicated. What's the point of getting cross-eyed drunk? He sat on the bar stool, cross-eyed
and
crying.
someone (up) and cross up sometr. to go against someone; to thwart someone. Don't cross me up / if you know what's good for you. told you not to cross me again!
cross crisp mod. drug intoxicated.
The crisp the one we are
guy waving the bra is Man, is he crisp! after.
crispy-critter n. a person
name
under the
of a breakfast cereal.)
A
fried all right. crispy-critter
He's
A
real crispy-critter.
came
in
ef-
(From the brand
fects of marijuana.
and
tried to sell
me
his watch.
croak /
to die; to expire; to succumb.
1. in.
was afraid
The parrot
I'd croak.
croaked before I got it home. 2. tr. to kill someone. The car croaked the cat just like that. Somebody croaked my parrot.
nonsense. (See also crock of What a crock! You don't know what you are talking about! This
crock
1. n.
shit.)
whole business is a crock. Hell, life's a n. a drunkard. Give the old crock some money, anything to get him outa here before he barfs or something. The crock wants booze, not money. crock! 2.
crock of shit (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) 1. n. something really awful; a great mass of nonsense. That whole place is just a crock of shit.
Nobody knows
what's what.
went on vacation and a real crock of shit.
left this
You
office with
a worthless person. Who is that crock of shit who brought in the dead cat? Some crock
of shit put
crocked
my coat on
2. n.
the floor!
Oh,
my God!
cross
someone
crotch-pheasant [kratfieznt] n. a louse. (Usually in the plural.) He appears to be afflicted with what you might call crotch-pheasants. There is a special medicine that will get rid of crotchpheasants. n. a skin irritation or disease characterized by itching in the genital
crotch-rot
area, usually said of males. (See also What will get rid of crotchgrunge.) rot? Here's some medicine for crotchrot.
crowd
to pressure or threaten someMax began Don't crowd me! to crowd Bruno, which was the wrong 1.
tr.
one.
thing to do. 2.
tr.
to
Some guys
one.
gang up on some-
were crowding Todd,
so we chased them off. from all sides, carrying to crowd us.
They moved in and began
clubs,
crown tr. to hit someone on the head. The clerk crowned the robber with a The bride, at the champagne bottle. end of her patience, crowned the stuttering cleric with her bouquet, shouted "I
and began
my
crockery.
crud [krad]
kissing the groom.
Is that
your
1. n.
less matter.
nastiness; junk; worth-
This
is
just crud.
Get
rid
old crud out of the attic so we can have room for newer Don 't stuff. 2. n. a repellent person. That crud kept trying be such a crud!
Get
of it.
crockery n. the teeth. (See also China.) / gotta go to the dentist for some
to paw
all that
me!
crockery?
cromagnon
[kro'maegnan] n. an ugly male. (Collegiate.) Who is that cromagnon you were with last night? That was no cromagnon. That was your blind date for next weekend.
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up someone See
(up)-
do, "
mod. alcohol intoxiWhat do you get out of getting
crocked very night? You 're crocked again!
work on
cross
[krakt]
cated.
own
one
cruddie See the following entry.
cruddy and crudy; cruddie
What
nasty; awful. stuff
on my plate?
mousse, and
it's
It's
[
is
'
kradi] this
mod.
cruddy
just chocolate
not cruddie.
cry ruth
crudy See the previous entry. cruise
stuff is pretty
We
This old caddy can really cruise. cruised all the
way
to Philty.
2. in.
to
around looking for friends or We went out cruising, but didn see anybody. Let's go cruise for a while. 3. tr. to pursue a member of the opposite sex. Tom was cruising Are Tiffany, but she got rid of him. you cruising me, Tom? You know you drive
social activity. 't
just barf me, to leave.
Time
out! 4.
like,
Listen,
to cruise.
minutes. 5.
in.
to
in.
move
on;
I gotta cruise.
Monty Python 's on in ten to move through life at a
comfortable pace. / just want to get a good job and cruise for a while. I'm cruising just the way I want now. 6. tr. to pass a course easily. I'm gonna cruise
math
that
Tom
course.
really cruised
English this semester. cruiser
hog
a real
is
yuppie
/
cruiser.
cruiser, just
This old
don
't
want a
an old family wagon.
cruisin' for a bruisin'
See the following
cruising for a bruising
and
You are
ing for trouble.
in.
ask-
Who's
crum something up tr. to mess something up; to make something crummy. Who crummed the bird feeder up? CD Now don crum up this deal. 't
crumb [kram] The old
n.
a repellent person.
man was
us.
a crumb and tried to is a crumb, and he
Micky
me like dirt.
krambam] 1. n. a repellent [ person; a bum. A skid row crumbum asked us for a buck. I gave the crum-
bum
a buck and hoped he would leave. 2. mod. inferior; lousy. / sent the crumbum food back to the kitchen. There was a bug in it. / want out of
crumbum place.
a crisis; a time of pressure or tightness, especially of a budget. n.
We seem
crummy and crumby
a crunch of one kind The budget
to be in
or another
all the time.
crunch meant that we couldn't take to Europe anymore.
crunchers are sore
My
the feet.
n.
from
trips
crunchers
New
all this walking.
shoes can be hard on your crunchers. n.
a soldier; a marching infantry
See also crunchers.) couple of crunchies were comCrunchies plaining about the Army. have a pretty hard life. soldier. (Military.
A
n.
She's got a lot of
nerve; gall.
here like
in
that.
It
takes crust to sell this stuff to somebody.
You
really gotta
push.
mod. feisty; gruff. Jed is a Unlike most crusty, man. avuncular old men, Jed hasn't a single
crusty
crusty old
redeeming quality. crutch
a device to hold a marijuana Here's a crutch so
n.
cigarette butt.
you can finish your smoke.
/ lost
my
crutch.
cry hughie
[
krai hjui]
crying hughie.
in.
to
He
empty one's
is
in the
john
/ think I gotta go cry
hughie.
cry in one's beer
in.
to feel sorry for one-
She calls up, crying in her beer, and talks on and on about her problems. Don't cry in your beer. Get yourself self.
straightened out.
cry ralph See the following entry.
crumby See the following lousy; bad; inferior.
I feel half-crumped.
tired.
stomach; to vomit.
crumbum
this
so
crunch
cruising for
a bruising you know that? cruisin 'for a bruisin '?
treats
1. mod. alcohol intoxiShe was too crumped out to drive herself home. Are you crumped out again? 2. mod. dead. Our old dog crumped out at age fourteen. Uncle Dave is crumped and now there's nobody left to drive that 1952 Cadillac. D I am
(out)
crust— coming cruisin' for
a bruisin' ['kruzn for a bruzn]
worse than
It's
cated.
crust
entry.
cheat
crumped
crunchie
a car; a fast car.
n.
crummy.
crumby.
to travel at top speed.
1. in.
entry.
[krami] mod. You know, this
cry ruth
and
call ruth; call ralph; cry
ralph [. ..'ru6 AND...'ralf] tr. to empty one's stomach; to vomit. (See also
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drunk
crying
Also with capital r.) bushes crying ruth.
ruth. is
in the
have
to cry ruth!
Someone / think I
/
can give you a cuff quote of ninety-two,
but don 't hold
me to
it.
Stop the car! cuffs n. handcuffs.
crying drunk mod. alcohol intoxicated
and weeping. She was crying drunk and feeling sorry for herself. / really hate it when they come in here crying
/ felt the cuffs tight-
en and snap shut on my wrists. The cuffs carried the cold of the night to my bare skin. Of course, I was innocent, but that's not the way it works in real life.
drunk. cull
crying towel
used to comfort someone. / guess I need a crying towel today. I'm the kind of person who has to carry a
a socially unacceptable person.
n.
someone or something
n.
Who's the This place
cull driving the
is filled
Edsel?
with culls. Let's
split.
really
crying weed
n.
marijuana. (Compare to
up pot.)
/ must have got hold of some crying weed. This stuff leaves me cold.
On
a rainy day, crying weed seems
just right.
crystal
1. n.
crystallized cocaine. (Drugs.
See also crack.) / wonder how much crystal is used in this country each day. Crystal— an older name for crackwas a favorite many years ago. 2. n. liquid Methedrine™ in glass ampoules. (Drugs.) / hear that Wally's shooting crystal. Is that true? Max has lots of crystal right now. cube [kjub] 1. n. a very square person. This nerd was the most unbelievable cube you have ever seen. Not just an L7, a real cube. 2. n. a die, one of a pair of dice. (Usually in the plural.) Toss
me
She shook the cubes,
the cubes.
saying "Baby needs shoes!" 3.
n.
a sugar
cube impregnated with L.S.D. (Drugs. Often in the plural.) First they took it on cubes. Then on little bits of paper. The cubes were usually bluish. cuckoo See coo-coo. cuddle bunny n. a female lover. All you want is a cuddle bunny with big tits!
Grow
up,
that cuddle
culture-vulture
of the
crying towel at all times.
Maxwell Wilson! Who bunny driving the caddy?
is
tures
its
gaggle of culture-vulway into the gallery.
seem to be long on enthusiasm and short on taste. 2. n.
culture-vultures
someone who
monetary
exploits the arts for
Mr. Babbit, a well-
gain.
known culture-vulture in art circles, never could pass up a chance to grab up all the works of an up-and-coming young artist.
Some culture-vultures are throwing a wine and cheese party on behalf of some of the young dolts they have grubstaked.
cum See
the following entry.
cume and cum [kjum]
a cumulative
n.
average, such as a grade-point average.
My cume is not high enough to get into My cum is a straight A.
law school.
cup of tea
something preferred or This drug scene stuff is just not my cup of tea. Driving children around all afternoon is not my cup of tea. n.
desired. (Often negative.)
cupcake n. an attractive woman. (Also a Hey, cupcake, what term of address.) Who is that cupcake driving ya doing? the beemer?
up and
curl
die
in.
to retreat
and
die.
/ was so embar(Often figurative.) rassed, I thought I would just curl up and die.
The old
of its nine tr. to put a charge on one's bill. Would you cuff this for me, please? Sorry, I can cuff anymore for you.
an avid supporter
A
gawked
Many
1. n.
arts.
lives,
up the last up and died.
cat, finishing
just curled
cuff
*t
cuff quote n. an off-the-cuff quote of a financial instrument price. (Securities
markets.)
This
but I would say
90
it's
is
just a cuff quote,
about ninety-four.
n. the menses. (Always with the.) Oh, The curse struck this morning. the woes of the curse!
curse
curtains
n.
death. (Underworld.)
curtains for you ifyou don't
Okay, Barlowe,
this
It's
come across.
time
it's
curtains.
cut the dust
soft; easy. (From cushHe's got sort of a cushy job. That's a cushy kind of life to lead.
cushy [kuji] mod. ion.)
cut
1.
mod. alcohol intoxicated.
He got
too cut to drive.
cut
She's
on
cut one's losses
do something to I knew I had
to
tr.
stop a loss of something.
do something to cut my losses, but it was almost too late. Sell some of the high-priced stuff to cut your losses. to
beer,
which is unusual for him. 2. tr. to dilute something. She always cuts her eggYou can cut the nog with cola. Yuckl saltiness with a little sugar. 3. n. a share
cut one's
own
harms
that
throat
to
tr.
oneself.
be cutting
my own
cutting his
own
do something do that, I'd
If I
He's just
throat.
throat,
and he knows
it.
of the loot or the profits. (Originally
underworld.) / want my cut now. You '11 get your cut when everybody else does. 4. n. a single song or section of music on a record. This next cut is one everybody likes. Let's listen to another cut of the same album. 5. tr. to eliminate something; to stop (doing something). Okay, chum, cut the clowning. Cut that noise! Not another peep out ofyou. cut a check
to write a check.
tr.
cut the check tonight
and send
We'll
out in tomorrow's mail. Please cut a check for Mr. Babbit. Here's the amount. cut a deal
tr.
bargain.
left
with the furniture, although
tr.
to
do something more save
money
by finding cheaper ways to do something. They're always finding ways to cut corners. / won't cut corners just to save money. I put quality first. out! exclam. "Stop
enough! Cut it out! off me! Cut it out! in.
it!"
That's
Get your hands
to let go; to
become
inde-
pendent. // was hard to cut loose from home. / guess it's time I cut loose. cut no ice (with someone) tr. to have no influence on someone; to fail to convince someone. I don't care who you are. It cuts
in,
to leave; to run away.
I think
now. The night
is
no
ice with
me.
the mayor's daughter. It
still
It's
Don't cut out
cut out.
I'll
young.
mod. cheap; low-priced. / don 't want any cut-rate stuff. Where are your cut-rate sweaters?
cut-rate
cut
some
cut
someone a break
Z's See catch
Come
utes late!
Cut
tr.
some Z's. someone
to give
on, cut
me
a break!
was only a few mina break! Don't dock
/
me
my pay! cut someone in (on something)
easily; to take shortcuts; to
cut loose
late.
I'm a good guy!
cut a deal.
and run in. to stop what one is doing and flee. The cops were coming, so we cut and run. At the first warning, we cut and run.
it
cut out
really get into trouble.
Maybe we can
she got the house.
Cut
and
a oreak.
cut
cut corners
often
it
The two lawyers cut a deal
me
out and cut my wolf loose tonight. You 're going to cut your wolf loose too
to arrange a deal; to seal a
Let's talk.
that
cut one's wolf loose tr. to go on a drinkI'm gonna go ing bout; to get drunk.
So you're cuts no ice.
to
tr.
permit someone to share something. You promised you would cut me We can 't cut you in. in on this caper. There's not enough. cut the cheese
and
cut the mustard
to release intestinal gas. (Crude.
tr.
Use
Who cut the caution with the topic.) cheese? People who cut the mustard in the car have to get out and walk. Cut the comedy! exclam. "Get
serious!";
That's enough, "Stop acting silly!" you guys. Cut the comedy! Cut the comedy and get to work!
Cut the crap! sense!" crap!
exclam. "Stop the non-
heard enough. Cut the Cut the crap. Talk straight or get I've
out.
cut the dust / think dust.
/
tr.
I'll
to take a drink of liquor.
stop in here
want
and
to cut the dust.
cut the
Can
I
have a snort?
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cut the mustard
1. tr. to be able to do something requiring youth or vigor.
cut the mustard
(Usually in the expression too old to Doyou really think he can cut the mustard? She's not too old to cut the mustard. 2. See cut the cheese. cut the mustard.)
cut to the chase in. to focus on what is important; to abandon the preliminaries
and deal with the major
All right,
let's
points.
stop the idle chatter and cut
After a few introductory comments, we cut to the chase and began to the chase.
cut
up (about someone or something)
mod. emotionally upset about someone or something. She was all cut up about her divorce. cut
up she
You could see how
was.
cutie n. a cute thing or person. (Also a
term of address.) cutie.
Come here,
Your baby cutie, let
is
a real
me fix your
collar. n. a cute person, typically a or a baby. (Also a term of address.) She is such a cutie pie. What's your name, cutie pie?
cutie pie
woman
negotiating.
mod. having well-defined abdominal muscles. Greg is really cut
cut (up)
He works out every day. Andy works hard to try to get a gut that's cut.
up.
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cuz [ksz]
(Old colloquial.) Denver to visit my cuz.
n. cousin.
I've got to
go
to
My cuz came to visit for the weekend.
D dad n. one's father; any father; any old man. (Also a term of address. Capi-
when
talized
own
referring to one's
father.)
Hey, Dad, can I use the car
tonight?
Well, dad,
daddy (of them (of them all).
how's
it
going?
silly;
crazy.
Kelly
was acting daffy because she was so
[
daegwud
.
.
.]
n.
a
sandwich with many layers of food. (From the comic strip character Dagwood by Chick Young.) I really like to make an old-fashioned dagwood sandtall
wich every
now and
How many
then.
calories are there in a dagwood, on the average?
daily dozen
n.
a short set of daily exer-
do my
/ need to
cises.
daily
dozen
A daily dozen would
before breakfast.
be good for you. daily grind
n.
the tedious pattern of
it's
Monday. Time
to start another
The
of the daily grind. really gets me down. daisy
an excellent
n.
doosie.)
This
thing.
little
car
Well,
week
daily grind
(Compare
is
to
a real daisy.
/ want a daisy of a haircut. Something unusual with bangs or something.
damage
amount of the (Compare to bad news.) Okay, waiter. What's the damage? As soon as I pay the damage, we bill
n.
the cost; the
(for something).
can go.
dank
[daerjk] 1.
n.
Carl
thing.
dark horse
an excellent person or a real darb. I'm glad to What a swell darb of a car! is
n.
1.
an unknown entrant
into a contest; a surprise candidate for political office.
The party
is
hoping
that a dark horse will appear before the
You'd be surprised at how
election.
eagerly people will vote for a dark horse.
Who mod. previously unknown. would vote for a dark horse candidate? A dark horse player can win if all the 2.
others are creeps.
Dash
it
it
all!"
/ broke
late.
"To
exclam. "Oh, phooey!";
all!
it!
Oh, dash
Dash
it
it
all!
I'm
all!
You haven't day one n. the first day. done anything right since day one! You 're She was unhappy with her new fired! car even on day one. day person n. a person who prefers to be active during the daytime. (Com-
U
pare to night person.) I am strictly a day person. Have to be in bed early. The Count insisted that he was not a day person, and he had to remain on his home ground until nightfall.
day the eagle
flies
See when the eagle
flies.
mod. very good.
stopped for a while bistro
today. I thought I
mod. well-dressed. (From Who is that dap looking Man, you look dap!
darb [darb]
hell with
daily work. (See also rat race.)
mod. very bad.
[daep]
dapper.)
know him.
Oh, don't be daffy!
dagwood (sandwich)
2.
dank
would die of terminal boredom. This is a real dank day. I hope it's over soon.
dude?
daffy ['daefi] mod.
happy.
so dank!
is
Class was so
dap
See (grand)daddy
all)
wine
in this real
dank
on the main boulevard.
We
day-tripper
n.
a tourist
who makes
At about 4:00
little
day
This
trippers start thinning out.
trips.
p.m. the
oneday-
Being a
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dead
hard on your feet some-
Watty is a dead duck because he flunked astronomy.
mod. quiet and uneventful; The day was totally dead. What a dead day! Things were sure dead around this town this summer. 2. mod. very tired. I am just dead from all that jogging. / went home from the office, dead as usual. 3. mod. dull; lifeless; flat. This meal is sort of dead because I am out of onions. The pop went dead because someone left it open. Who wants dead pop? 4. mod. no longer effective; no longer of any con-
dead easy mod. very easy. This whole job is dead easy. It was so dead easy, Frank did it with one hand.
day-tripper
is
times.
dead
1.
boring.
sequence.
You're dead, Fred.
You
That guy
can't help us anymore.
is
dead— out of
power. 5. mod. (of an no longer germane; no longer of any importance. Forget it! It's a dead issue. The project is dead. Don waste any more time on it. issue)
't
dead and gone
mod. (of a person) dead and gone for quite a spell. When Vm dead and gone, I hope folks remember me at my best. 2. mod. (of a thing) gone long ago. That kind of thinking is dead and gone. The horse and buggy days are dead and gone. long dead.
1.
Old
Gert's been
dead-end kid
a youth with
n.
no
future,
Kelly wasn't your typi-
usually a male.
Max was a dead-end
cal dead-end kid.
kid from the day he was born.
dead from the neck up 1. mod. stupid. (With a "dead" head.) Beavis seems dead from the neck up. She acts like she is dead from the neck up. 2. mod. no longer open to is
dead from
new
My
ideas.
the neck up.
A
uncle
real fossil.
Everyone on the board of directors dead from the neck up.
dead horse one that
n. is
a
dead
is
issue, especially
referred
continually.
to
(Often with beat, whip.) Forget it! Don't waste time whipping a dead horse. The whole business is a dead horse. Forget
dead
it.
in the
bile.
water mod.
(Originally
whole company
stalled;
dead The project b dead in is
in
immoThis
nautical.)
the water.
the water for
the time being.
dead broke mod. completely broke; without any money. Vm dead broke— not a nickel to my name. I've been dead broke for a month now.
dead issue n. an issue that doesn't matIt's a dead issue. Forget ter anymore. it. The question of my late arrival is a dead issue.
dead-catty mod.
with only a slight bounce. (See the explanation at deadcat bounce. Securities markets.) We expected the stock to go up a lot today, but the increase was no better than dead-catty. // was just a dead-catty day in spite of the good economic news.
dead cinch
n. an absolute certainty; an easy thing to do. It's a dead cinch. I foresee no problems. The job was no
dead
cinch, but
we did it on
time.
dead drunk mod. alcohol intoxicated; totally
inebriated.
They were both
dead drunk. They could only lie there and snore. Marty is dead drunk again. dead duck
n.
a person or thing
to failure or disaster.
doomed
This whole plan
was a dead duck from the beginning.
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letter 1. n. a letter that cannot move through the post office because the addressee does not exist or because the address is wrong or illegible. (Standard Every now and then they English.) open the dead letters to see if they can figure out who they were meant for. Sometimes dead letters have return addresses in them. 2. n. an issue that does This contract is not matter anymore. The mayor's a dead letter. Forget it! plan for our raises is a dead letter.
dead
dead
man See dead soldier.
dead marine See dead soldier. dead on mod. exactly right; on target. That's a good observation, Tiffany. You Your criticism is dead on! are dead on.
deathly
Z
dead one See dead soldier. (dead) ringer (for someone)
who
is
else.
Z
someone of someone n.
an exact duplicate You are sure a dead ringer for my brother. Isn't he a ringer for Chuck?
~
dead soldier and dead man: dead marine: dead one 1. n. an empty liquor or beer bottle. Z Toss your dead soldiers in the garbage, please. Z A dead marine
and woke up
fell off the table
drunks.
all the
a cigarette butt. (Less
2. n.
com-
Z
The bum found a dead soldier on the ground and picked it up. Z He collected dead soldiers to use in building a whole smoke.
mon
than sense L)
dead
to rights
dead
to the
See (bang) dead to
world
rights.
mod
sound asleep. he 's dead to the
1.
Z After all that exercise, Z He s dead to the
world.
world,
and
I
can % rouse him 2. mod alcohol intoxicated Z Six beers and he was dead to the world By midnight almost everybody was dead to the world.
Z
deadbeat debts or
someone who doesn't pay
n.
bills.
Z Some deadbeat with the
same name as mine is ruining my credit rating. Z Pay up! Don be a deadbeat.
The lecdeadly (dull) mod very dull. ture was deadly dull, and I went to sleep. What a deadly dull prof. Her story
Z
Z
was
really deadly
I
.
am
was awake
sorry I
for part of it.
deadneck n. a stupid person. Z What dead neck put sugar in the salt shaker? Z Who's the deadneck who painted the fence purple?
L n. an expressionless face. This guy has a super (See also pan.) Remember the deadpan she deadpan. used to put on? 2. n. a person with an ex-
deadpan
Z
Z
pressionless face.
Z
deadpan.
Z
The guy's a perfect
When you come on
look like a deadpan.
3.
mod
stage,
and
dull
(Usually said of a face, expresWhat a deadpan expression, etc.) sion! Her face is totally deadpan. He has such a deadpan approach to lifeless.
Z
Z
Z
everything.
deadwood
nonproductive or nonfuncZ We 'll have to cut costs by getting rid of the deadwood. Z Is there any way to make the deadwood productive again? n.
tional persons.
't
deal stock
deadcat bounce
knee-jerk rally in one of the financial markets. (A dead cat— or any other animala
n.
bounce only
will
small,
slightly
after being
n.
a stock that
is
a takeover
Z
candidate. (Securities markets.) try to
spot the deal stocks early
/
and buy
them before others do. Z You can lot of money on deal stocks, too.
lose a
dropped. Refers to a stock index or security
price
that
bounces up only
slightly after a precipitous fall.
Secu-
Z
Dear John
letter
rities market.) The whole market gave only a deadcat bounce after the
service telling
love
him him anymore.
this last week. Z / was more than a deadcat bounce because of the good new s.
John John
letter
string
of losses
expecting
a letter a
n.
woman
writes to her boyfriend in the military
letter
does not Walty got a Dear
that she
Z
today Z Salty sends a Dear about once a month .
death on someone or something 1. causing the death or destruction of This kind someone or something. This of road is just death on tires. candy is death on my teeth. 2. n. [with something] moving very fast or skillfully on something, such as wheels. He is way fast—just death on wheels. Pete is death on skis. You ought to see him go. >:
deadhead 1. n. a stupid person. Z Who s the deadhead in the plaid pants 0 Wow, are you a deadhead! 2. tr. & in. [for someone] to return an empty truck, train, airplane, etc.. to where it came from. Z / deadheaded back to Los
Z
Angeles.
head
this
Who
is
truck to
supposed
Miami?
to
dead-
3. n.
a fol-
Z
Z
Z Z
lower ofthe rock group "The Grateful
Dead." in that
and
_
What do
group?
trav els all
these
Z My son
deadheads see is a deadhead
over listening to these guys.
deathly Kelly's
mod
excellent.
deathly
new
Z
Did you
see
convertible?
Z
That's a deathly uiea!
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decent
decent mod. good; very good. This is some pretty decent jazz. Your threads are decent, all
take
life less
can
be
't
def [def] 1.
to
tr.
deduck [ didak] 1. n. a tax deduction. (From deduct.) Interest is no longer a deduck. / need a few more deducks this year. 2. and duck n. a deduction from one's paycheck. More of my pay goes to deducks than I get myself. What's this duck for? deejay See disk jockey.
deep gave
mod. intense; profound. She this really deep speech to us about
how we should these
comments
stay off drugs. All are too deep for me.
deep pockets 1. n. a good source of money. We need to find some deep pockets to finance this venture. Deep pockets are hard to find since the stock market crashed. 2. n. a rich person. The lawyer went after the doctor who was the deep pockets of the organization. / want to find the deep pockets who arranged all this.
deep
six 1.
tr.
to jettison something, in-
cluding a corpse, from a ship at sea. The captain had them deep six the garbage.
of the
first
They deep sixed the body mate,
who had died of
the
shakes. 2. n. burial at sea. (Always with
They gave her the deep six / think I'd want the deep six, but I'll probably kick off on dry land. 3. tr. to kill or dispose of someone. (Underworld.) Mr. Big ordered Bruno to deep six Max. The thugs tried to deep six the witness, but failed. 4. tr. to throw something away. Take this old thing out and deep six it. I've got to deep six this old TV. set. 5. n. a grave. (Always with the. Graves are usually six feet deep.) When you know the deep six is at the end of the line no matter who you are, it makes you the.)
with full honors.
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six
many people.
attractive to
right.
knock someone to the ground. Fred decked Bob with one blow. / was so mad I almost decked him. 2. n. a pack of cigarettes. Can you toss me a deck of fags, please? Why don 't you stop in there and buy a deck?
deck
The deep
seriously.
made
mod.
1.
better; cool. (Originally
Black.
From definitive.)
gurt
def!
Man, that yoWhat a def set of threads! v2. mod. definitely. / will be there. Def is
This
is
def the best there
is.
mod. "even" with someone
defrosted
who
has insulted, embarrassed, or angered one. (See also chill, ice.) He yelled at her till he was defrosted, and then things settled down. Bob was finally defrosted when he insulted Heidi. Delhi belly [ deli beli] n. diarrhea, as suffered by tourists in India. I've got a touch of the Delhi belly and will have I've got someto miss the Taj Mahal. thing you can take for Delhi belly. delish [da' lij] mod. delicious.
cake
is just
delts [delts]
the
n.
Oh,
muscles.
at the delts
How do you get
dame!
this
delish meal.
deltoid
Look
(Bodybuilding.) that
What a
delish.
on
delts like
that?
dem See
the following entry.
demo demo] 1. and dem [dem] n. a member of the Democratic Party. A couple of dems are running for the [
caucus, but no other party
is
represented.
Which demos are they?
2. n. a demonstration (of something). Can I Hey, have a demo of this model? Chuck, give this man a demo. 3. n. an automobile or other machine or device that has been used by a dealer for / can give demonstration purposes. Do you you a demo for half price. have any demos? 4. tr. to demonstrate Let me something (to someone). demo this for you so you can see how it
Will someone please
works.
5.
thing) to
someone. on
demo
tr.
demo this
to demonstrate (some-
computer?
these people
I've got to
go
this software.
Can you demo me before you go? des
[dis] n.
December.
(Securities
mar-
Futures and options trading.) The bean futures for des fell out of bed
kets.
yesterday.
March?
Are
these figures des or
dicty
n. a new soldier in a desert war; a soldier new to the desert in wartime. (From the Persian Gulf War.
desert cherry
About 5,000
See also cherry.)
cherries arrived last week.
desert
Something
is
The desert chergoing to happen soon. ries are complaining about the scorpions
Sam a person with great potential. looks a little tacky, but he's a diamond rough.
in the
rough— a
little
He's a diamond in the to take at times, but
hard
okay mostly. diarrhea of the jawbone See the following entry.
again.
desk jockey n. someone who works at a desk in an office. (Patterned on disc / couldn't stand being a The desk joccooped-up desk jockey. keys at our place don 't get paid very well
jockey.)
diarrhea of the mouth and diarrhea of the jawbone n. an imaginary disease Wow, involving constant talking. does he ever have diarrhea of the mouth! You're getting diarrhea of the jawbone again.
drug
destroyed mod.
intoxicated.
Wow, what happened to Tracy? She The kid who took looks destroyed. angel dust is destroyed most of the time.
dibs on something phr. a claim on someI've got dibs on the yellow one! thing.
Dibs on the front seat!
the devil. (Always with
dicey
knock the deuce out of you Get if you come around here again. the deuce out of here! 2. n. the two in
and
deuce [dus] the.)
1. n.
I'll
O
If I could only get a Ah, here's the deuce I need.
playing cards. deuce.
two dollars. Can you loan me Sure, here's a a deuce till payday? deuce. Don't spend it all in one place. 4. n. a two-year prison sentence. (Underworld.) Lefty served a deuce up the river. The D.A. made sure that Bruno 3. n.
got more than a deuce. 5.
n.
a table for
two. Give the next couple the deuce over in the comer. You can 't put three people at a deuce! devil of a time
n.
(Always with
a.)
a very /
difficult time.
had a
devil of a
my taxes. This cold been giving me a devil of a time. time with
has
own time n. a very difficult time; a hellish time. (Always with the.) /
devil's
had
the devil's
own
own
time with these tax
My gout is giving me the devil
forms.
's
dialog
tr.
deal with the
dick
1. n.
city right
now.
a detective; a police officer.
Some (Underworld. From detective.) dicks were around looking for you. Barlowe is a private dick who has to keep one step ahead of the cops. 2. n. the penis. (Widely heard, but potentially offensive.
Use only with
She told some
dirty
discretion.)
joke about a
but everybody just sat there and He covered his looked straight ahead. dick and stooped down, then reached up to pull down the shade. 3. n. a stupid person, usually a male. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) What stupid dick put You stupid dick! this thing here in the way? 4. n. nothing. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) The whole idea isn't worth dick. / was supposed to get a lot of money out of this deal, but all I got dick,
was dick! dickens
me
someone; seduce someone. Just
dialog her for a while; then you'll
see
some
this
dame when
action.
Ron was
dialoging
her brother came
in.
in the rough n. a person who wonderful despite a rough exterior;
diamond
1. n.
the devil. (Always with the.)
She was going
to attempt to deceive
to attempt to
is
now.
right
mod. touchy; chancy; touch Things are just a little dicey I'm working on a dicey
time.
dew See (mountain) dew.
let
daisi]
[
go.
to kick the dickens out / felt as bad as the dickens, of me. but what could I do? 2. n. a devilish or impish child. (Also a term of address.)
Come here, you are such a cute dicty
[
dikti]
little
little
dickens.
You
dickens!
mod. snobbish. (Black.)
Those people can be so
dicty!
That
97
diddle
dicty lady told
back
a
to get
diddle
1.
tr.
me
to cheat
someone.
The
come
I cduld
to the
wanted.
tip if I
"different things please different peo-
someone; to deceive
me
clerk diddled
so I
That's a good place to get
reported her.
You
them in there. 2. tr. & in. to copulate (with someone). (Use caution with the topic. Old slang.)
diddled.
gotta watch
/ didn 't think they'd diddle right there
I'm
in the film.
has diddled
of hearing who
tired
whom in Hollywood.
and
skwat
and
n.
[
nothing.
This contract isn *t worth diddly-squat.
differential
phr. "dreck in, dreck out"; garbage in, garbage out. (Computers. Acronym. See also dreck. If you get dreck out of a computer, it's because you put dreck in. See also GIGO.) Look at this stuff that the printer put out. What is it? Oh, well. D.I.D.O. As a program-
U
1.
laughing.
from laughintense
The whole audience died He laughed till he died.
on someone 1. in. [for a patient] to under the care of someone. Get
that medicine over here fast, or this guy's
gonna die on me. don 't die on me! 2.
Come
on, mister,
something] to quit running for someone. My car died on me, and I couldn 't get it started. My stereo died on me, and I had to in.
[for
listen to the radio.
[
diz|]
mod.
really good.
Fred
but no money to carry it out. / am set for a diesel evening and I intend to enjoy it.
had a
really diesel idea,
Aw, come on!
diff [dif] n. difference.
What's the diff?
The
diff is
about
twenty dollars worth of repairs, that's what.
98
ache
in the differ-
& in.
to understand something.
don dig what you are saying. I just don dig. 2. tr. to appreciate
Sorry.
't
't
He
something; to like something.
Do you dig
really digs classical music.
Dig up! exclam. "Listen up!"; "Pay attention!" Dig up, man! This is important. P Shut up and dig up! numbers; phone number. I'll call you and you know the time. D If I can find
let
n.
me your digits and
her digits, digs
I'll
call her.
a dwelling; a dwelling and
n.
You got some Nice digs. You
nishings. digs, here.
dike
its
fur-
pretty swell like
it
here?
homosexual one with masculine
[daik] n. a lesbian; a
especially
(Derogatory. Potentially offendiscretion. ResentWhy does she work ed by lesbians.) Who's the so hard to look like a dike? dike in the cowboy boots? traits.
Use only with
sive.
die
diesel
tr.
/ just
woman,
some other emotionally
response.
die
DIDO.
to die (figuratively)
little
You're walking like there's
something wrong with your differential.
digits
DIDO
ter or
D I got a
(end).
say.
the buttocks; the rear
n.
ential.
Tell
in.
what I always
folks. That's
/ get paid almost doodly-squat for a full day's work.
die
Different strokes for different
folks.
didli-
(Folksy. Originally black or southern.)
mer, I specialize in
whatever
Different strokes for different
like.
chocolate?
(doodly-) squat
'dudliskwat]
Do
ple." (Catch phrase.)
you
dig
diddle with something in. to play with something; to toy with something. Here, don't diddle with that watch. Stop diddling with your nose, Jimmy! diddly-squat
different strokes for different folks phr.
dildo ['dildo]
n.
a stupid person, usually
a male. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion. The term refers to an Hank can be such a artificial penis.) dildo sometimes. dilly n.
silly
dildo!
something excellent.
a real apartment! car
You
is
dilly-dally
dilly.
in.
What a
to waste time.
dilly-dallying around.
dally over a
dim bulb
n.
This dilly
little
of an
Stop
/ like to dilly-
cup of coffee. a dull person; a stupid per-
George seems to be a dim bulb, I feel but he's a straight-A student. like such a dim bulb when I do things son.
like that.
dip
dime-dropper n. an informer. (Underworld. Because an informer at one time could drop a dime in a public telephone and call the police or drop a dime on the sidewalk as a signal for the police
move in and make an arrest. See also drop a dime.) / think that Tracy is
to
Q
the dime-dropper
who caused
The fuzz protects
the roust.
dime-droppers
its
with everything they 've got.
dime store
an establishment that
n.
chaotic because of
can 7 stand
this
its
small scale.
is
dinged out mod. alcohol intoxicated. Gary is dinged out and can't drive. He got dinged out on a couple of quarts offoam.
Shut up, dinghead n. a stupid person. Frank was a real you stupid dinghead. dinghead when he cheated on the exam. n. a weird person. (From a term for unclean matter clinging to anal hairs. Many users of this term do
dingleberry
not
/
dime store anymore. This
no way to run a law firm. Things move so fast around here that we have become a dime store rather than an
acting like such a dingleberry!
is
accounting
office.
know its source. Potentially Use only with discretion.)
is
dimwit] n. an oaf; a dullard. [ (Also a rude term of address.) Oh, Dave, you can be such a dimwit! Come on, now, you're not really a
dingus [ dirjgas] n. a thing or gadget. I have a little dingus that helps me clean Toss
dinero [di'nero] n. money. (Spanish.) / don 't have as much dinero as I need, but other than that, I'm doing okay. You got some dinero I can borrow? 1.
tr.
The tr.
knock someThe rock dinged my left fender.
to shoot, dent, or
thing.
2.
me one of those
dinguses that holds the wire in the groove, will ya ?
dingy
dirji]
[
mod. loony; giddy.
That
friend of yours sure does act dingy sometimes. Tell the dingy drip to forget it.
dimwit.
ding
Stop
Frank
such a dingleberry!
Venetian blinds.
dimwit
offen-
sive.
bullet
dinged Rocko's right arm.
to negate; to cast out; to blemish.
Please stop dinging my little brother. He's a good kid. The reviewer dinged the book, but it sold well anyway.
I'm not dingy, I'm just
DINK and
dink
in love.
"double income, no kids"; a (young) married couple with two incomes and no children. (Acronym.) The whole neighborhood is populated by dinks. Not a single child Most dinks are young. on the block. Older couples whose children are grown up are just called old. [dirjk] n.
dink someone off tr. to make someone Whatever you do, don dink angry. her off! EE Why did you have to start out your speech by dinking off the entire 't
ding-a-ling
dinalirj] n. a
[
a giddy person ding-a-ling
who
stupid person;
hears
bells.
comes up and asks
dollar for the orphans. I
tell
This
me for a
the orphans I can use at
any price. Who's the ding-a-ling who painted the windows stuck?
dingbat
1. n.
Isn't there
a
name
little
That's
no dingbat;
mod. small; undersized. dinky for a $14 steak? take the dinky one. I'm on a diet.
dinky
dirjki]
[
Isn
't
I'll
this
a
little
dinner basket See breadbasket.
for a gadget.
supposed to be a
red
dingbat that goes in this hole? Is this the dingbat you mean? 2. n. a stupid person. Who is the dingbat with Bob? that's his sister. 3.
any undesirable person. (Also a rude term of address.) Look, dingbat, stop laughing! I'm tired of reading about that dingbat in the paper every day.
n.
audience?
her I got all
dip
1.
n.
niac.)
a drunkard.
(From dipsoma-
Buy the dip a
drink. That'll shut
A dip hung around mooching coin for drinks. 2. n. a pickpocket. (Underworld.) Watch out for dips at the racetrack. The dip tried a snatch, but the dupe turned around at the wrong time. him up for a
while.
outside the tavern,
3. n. a
pinch or helping of snuff.
He 99
dip(head)
took a dip just before lie picked up the bat. After the hit, he got another dip. 4. n. a wad of chewing tobacco. You could see he had a big dip in his cheek. / won 't tell you what he did with the dip when he was finished with it. 5. See dip(shit).
Who
dippy mod. crazy; loony.
and
dip(head); dipstick n. an (The first entry is potentially
oaf; a jerk.
offensive.
Use only with
discretion.)
are you acting like such a diphead?
a convention of dipsticks or something here today? Is there
dipso
['dipso] n. a drunkard;
an alco-
(From dipsomaniac. See
holic.
also
she was a
dip.)
Oh, I didn't
dipso.
She's sort of a closet dipso.
realize
Who
a rude remark.
n.
made
that dirty crack?
crack
like that
Another
dirty
and I'll leave.
that
is
dippy chick with the lamp shade on her head? Tom is dippy, but fun.
Why
now? dirty crack
dip(head) See dip(shit).
dip(shit)
cops knew that Max was dirty and they searched his car until they found something they could use against him. You just look at Bruno and you know he is dirty. The question is, what's he done
dirty deal n. an unfair deal.
That was
a dirty deal. I feel cheated. I got a dirty deal at that shop, and I won 't go back.
dog n. a low and sneaky person. What a low, dirty dog. That dirty dog tried to get fresh with me!
dirty
dozens n. a game of trading inremarks about relatives. (Originally Black. Always with the.) Man, what 's with you ? Always the dirty dozens. You just gotta start something all the Freddy is out giving the dozens time.
(dirty)
sulting
to Marty.
dipstick See dip(shit).
Fred an obscene joke. shocked almost everyone. No dirty jokes around here. We get enough of that on television. 2. n.
dirty joke
dipsy [dipsi] mod. tipsy; alcohol intoxicated. (See also dip.) I think that Jed is permanently dipsy. The cop pulled the dipsy dame over and arrested her. He was too dipsy to drive.
dipwad ['dipwad]
n.
a jerk; a nerd. (Eu-
1. n.
told a dirty joke that
a very ugly or very stupid person.
Look
at that face. That's a dirty joke.
Beavis
is
sort
can laugh
dirty laundry
me a hand with this.
dirty linen
dirt 1. n. low, worthless people.
d
am
He is
I'm just temporarily financially embarrassed. 2. n.
just
dirt,
I
not
dirt.
incriminating secrets; dirty What's the dirt on Tracy? / want to know about anybody's dirt!
of a
dirty joke that
See the following
and dirty laundry
don 't dirt
cheap mod. very cheap. / picked up dirt cheap. Get one of
this thing
these while they're dirt cheap.
mod. obscene. You have a dirty mind. The movie was too dirty How would you know what's for me. dirty and what's not? 2. mod. low and
dirty
1.
sneaky.
What a
dirty trick!
That
What a dirty thing to do! 3. mod. illegal; on the wrong side of the law. (Compare to clean.) The was
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really dirty!
n.
entry.
scandal;
unpleasant private matters. / wish you wouldn 't put our dirty linen out for I've heard enough everyone to see. about her dirty laundry.
scandal; linen.
nobody
at.
phemistic for dip(shit).) Fred is such a dipwad. Why doesn't he wise up? // you weren 't a big dipwad, you would give
dirty look n. a frown
meant
to
show
dis-
pleasure with something that has been I gave him a dirty look, said or done.
and he took his arm off my shoulder. What is that dirty look meant to mean? dirty-minded mod. having a tendency to see the lewd or obscene aspects of anything; having a tendency to place an obscene interpretation on the words Bruno is sort and actions of others. of dirty-minded, but he wouldn 't do anyHe's a vile, dirtything really vile. Most of those guys are minded jerk. dirty-minded.
dis(s)
1. n. a person who talks You are (See also bad-mouth.) getting to be quite a dirty mouth, Gary. Some dirty mouth yelled out the most obscene things during the meeting. 2. tr. to speak ill of someone or something. (See also bad-mouth.) Please stop dirty mouthing my friends. You have dirty mouthed cats just about enough.
mouth
dirty
dirty.
man n. a lecherous old man. (Usually jocular.) Jimmy, you are
dirty old
getting to be a dirty old terrible joke.
You
man!
are a dirty old
dirty pool n. activities
conducted using
unfair or sneaky tactics. ing dirty
pool now. This
When
plan. pool,
it's
What a
man!
They're playcalls for
a new
they start playing dirty
time to get mean.
You 'd be discomboobulated, drunk as much as she has.
discomboobulated See the previous entry.
dish
computer bulletin board. Some kid got the microphone and yelled a dirty word into it.
Now there's she a dish? a good-looking dish. 2. tr. to criticize someone or something; to spread gossip about someone or something. (Compare to dis. Probably short for The critics all dished dish the dirt.) the opening of the play mercilessly. / wish you would stop dishing me all the isn't
time.
dish something out 1. tr. to serve up food to people. (Standard English.) /'// dish it out, and you take it to the table.
how you dish out the mashed may not be enough. 2. tr.
potatoes. There
to distribute information, news, etc.
The press secretaries were dishing reports out as fast as they could write them. EC The company dishes out propaganda on a regular basis.
3.
tr.
to give out trouble,
The boss was
scoldings, criticism, etc.
dirty
work 1. n. menial work; hard work. Why do I always get stuck with the work?
dirty
work
We should share
the dirty
sneaky activities. / hear that Sam is up to his old dirty work again. [J He is a master at dirty work. evenly. 2. n.
dishing criticism out this morning, really got
little
too
n.
Max has been on a
drugs.
much of that discipline lately.
She smokes this stuff she Smells like pot to me.
calls discipline.
I
in the prank.
dish the dirt
tr.
Let 's
sip.
sit
dirt.
to spread gossip; to gos-
down, have a drink, and David goes down to the
tavern to dish the discipline
and
The teacher dished out a each one who was involved \J\
it.
scolding to
dish the
disc jockey See disk jockey.
woman.
a good-looking
n.
1.
Wow,
[E Careful
word n. a curse word; an informal word concerned with sex or excrement. No dirty words are allowed on this
dirty
too, ifyou 'd
dirt.
dishrag See (limp) dishrag. disk jockey and deejay; disc jockey; DJ. n. a radio announcer who introduces
music from phonograph records. (The
discombobulate [disksm'babjalet] tr. to confuse or perplex someone. That kind of discussion discombobulates me something awfiil. Don 't let the heat of the argument discombobulate you.
discombobulated and discomboobulated [diskam'babjaledad and diskam'bubjaledsd] 1. mod. confused. / get completely discombobulated when I think of figures that big. I'm so discomboobulated these days! She is one discombobulated gal. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. ing,
I'd say
From she
is
the
way she
is
walk-
discombobulated.
abbreviations are initialisms.
Compare
desk jockey. See also veejay.) The disk jockey couldn pronounce the name / was a D.J. for of the singing group. to
't
a while, but I didn 't
like
it.
someone) ['dis .] tr. to belittle someone; to show disrespect for someone. (From either a nonstandard transitive verb disrespect or from dismiss fas insignificant] .) Gary is such a complainer. All he does is diss on
dis(s) (on
She didn
Don
.
Please stop dissing
people. sister.
.
't
dis
't
my
do any of those
my ride! It
's
little
things.
only temporary.
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ditch
1. tr. to dispose 'of someone or something; to abandon someone or something. The crooks ditched the car and continued on foot. The flyboy ditched the plane in the lake and waded ashore. 2. tr. & in. to skip or evade someone or something. Pete ditched
ditch
class today. they'll
If
you
ditch too often,
throw you out of the organization.
did^] n. a state of confusion. [ (See also in a dither.) A dither like that is hard to break out of. Maybe a good night's sleep would help. I'm too far
dither
gone with
See
ditsy ditz
and
ditzy.
[dits(o)] n. a giddy, ab-
sent-minded person. You silly ditz! I'm getting to be such a ditz! Who is the ditzo on the phone? Another wrong
number?
ditzy
and
aware;
ditsy
mod.
giddy; un-
You are such a
ditzy
Betty has been acting a
little
a low drinking establishment; a to
Hey, this dive ain 't bad. divat] n. a toupee; a partial tou-
pee. (See also rug.)
/ think that
wearing a little divot. slipped, but no one laughed. is
divvy
[
drvi] n.
Sam
His divot
divvy something thing up.
up
tr.
We had
to divide
up after her death. up the fish and drove back
to the
dizzy mod. stupid; scatterbrained.
Who is
D J.
a
little
dizzy,
that dizzy
some-
my aunt's WThey divvied
to divvy
things
is
city.
The
but entertaining.
dame?
See disk jockey.
1. n. a party; a social event. We had a smashing time at your little do. I'm having a do for a friend this weekend.
do
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to
all
Look at that fender!
tr. to leave; to sneak away. did a fade when he saw the pigmobile. It's time for me to do a fade.
1.
someone or something; to someone or something a thorough
to ruin
give
working over. The cops did a job on Rocko, but he still wouldn't talk. There's no need to do a job on me, man, I'll tell you everything I know— which is That punch sure did a job on my zip. nose. 2. See do a number on someone.
do a line
a share of something.
How (See also divvy something up.) much is my divvy? Give me my divvy so I can go home.
prof
in.
do a job on someone or something
What's wrong?
cheap saloon. / don't think I want spend the whole evening in this dive.
[
&
Max
tr.
divot
tr.
entry.
['ditsi]
flighty.
ditsy lately. n.
2.
do a fade
geek!
dive
come?
or something over someone or something; dump on someone or something tr. to criticize someone or something; to destroy someone or something. There is no need to do a dump on me. I didn't wreck your car. The boss— mad as a wet hen— dumped all over me. That rotten jerk really did a dump on my car.
See the previous
ditzo
like to
dump on someone
do a
and dump
this dither to sleep.
ditzo
Would you
use a drug or drugs in general. (See also do a line, do drugs.) Is Tracy Tracy never stopped doing dust again? doing. She just switched from dust to splash. 3. and doo n. a hairdo. Nice / can 't go out in this rain \do. Is it new? and get my doo wet! 4. See (must) do. 5. in. to serve (a purpose) well. (Usually with will or won't.) This will do quite nicely. Oh, yes, this will do. That won't do at all! 6. See doo-doo.
tr.
to snort a dose of a
powdered
drug, usually cocaine. (Drugs.) slipped into a
doorway
to
do a
Emie has to do a line about hours— night and day.
Max line.
every four
do a number on someone and do a job on someone tr. to harm or deceive someone. The IRS really did a number on me. My local friendly plumber did a job on me cleaning out my drain. do a slow burn tr. to be quietly angry. / did a slow (See also slow bum.) burn while I was getting my money back. / was doing a slow burn, but I didn't let it
show.
do a snow job on someone tr. to deceive Don't try to do or confuse someone.
(Do you) get
a snow job on me. I know all the tricks. She thought she did a snow job on the teacher, but it backfired. (do-) do
See doo-doo. entry.
do drugs and do dope
to take drugs;
tr.
Rocko
general.)
thing on earth. some bongs?
do some
do dope See the following
to use drugs habitually.
(Drugs. See also bong.) think that doing bongs
doesn't
do
drugs,
break, I'm going to
and he doesn't drink. Max started doing dope when he was very young.
duguda1 ] n. a person who is [ always trying to help others. (Often derogatory.) The do-gooders are de-
do-gooder
manding a bigger cut of the pie. / don consider myself a do-gooder, but
Max
try to
did some fine coin on that
I
have to draw (you) a picture? See
the following entry.
tell.
sent. "Is that so?" (A disinterway of holding up one end of a
Do
you?" This is supposed to be easy. I have to paint a picture? Do I have to draw you a picture, or can you
Do
tell.
So, you're a dentist. I've never
tell.
heard that
Nice talking to you.
before.
Do I have to paint (you) a picture? and Do I have to draw (you) a picture? interrog. "Do you understand yet?"; "How simple do I have to make it for
last
there in the courtroom.
Do
conversation.)
Do
to make a large When I get my big do some fine coin.
do someone dirt tr. to do ill to someone; You to harm someone's reputation. really did me dirt. It seemed that the lawyer was determined to do me dirt right
ested
help people.
wanna do
house painting job.
*t
I
the greatest
tr.
sum of money.
(Drugs and now
All the kids is
Hey, dude,
fine coin
my drift?
do the drink thing
tr. to drink alcohol He's been doing the drink thing quite a lot lately. He started doing the drink thing when he got out of
heavily.
prison.
Do
do the drug thing
tr.
be involved with Man, you gotta
to
drugs; to take drugs.
visualize this?
stop doing the drug thing.
do one's (own) thing tr. to do what one wants; to do what pleases oneself no matter what others think. She's going to change.
doing her own thing for a I've always done my thing,
start
and I don't from it.
see a great
amount of benefit
thinks about
do the trick needed.
Does
have done a very fine job. That's super! You've done yourself proud! / feel like I've done tr.
to
myselfproud.
All she
doing the drug
tr.
do
to
thing.
exactly
This about does the
this
little
what
is
trick.
dudenwhacker do the
trick?
do time
do oneself proud
is
tr.
to serve a sentence in prison;
amount of time in (Underworld. See also hard time.) Lefty had done time on a number of occasions. You'd better talk and talk fast ifyou don want to do time. to serve a specific
prison.
't
do or die mod. having to try as hard as one can. He has the obsessive do or die attitude. / was determined to get there— do or die.
(Do) you eat with that mouth? and (Do) you kiss your momma with that
mouth?
interrog.
"Do you
actually eat
do
re'mi] n.
It
takes too
mouth you use to talk that filth?"; "Do you actually use that filthy mouth to kiss your mother?" (A catch phrase said to someone who talks dirty
part of do-re-me
Do
with the
do-re-me See the following entry.
and do-re-me money. (From dough.)
do-re-mi
much town.
do-re-mi to
Do
[
in
live
you have a
this
little
juana,
usually
tr.
to
the time.)
you
smoke some mari-
with
a
water
pipe.
That's a lot offoul talk.
eat with that
talk dirt a
you could loan me?
do some bongs
all
lot.
You
mouth?
eat with that
(Do you) get my drift? you understand me?"
You mouth ?
interrog.
"Do
my
drift?
Get
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(Do) you kiss your
Should I explain
my
drift,
momma with that mouth?
it
Do you get
again*?
or shall I run through
(Do) you kiss your
momma
it
again ?
with that
mouth? See (Do) you eat with mouth?
DOA
that
mod. "dead on arrival." (HospiThe kid was DOA, and there was nothing anybody could do. Do you want to end up D.OA. ? 2. n. a person who is dead on arrival at a 1.
tals. Initialism.)
hospital.
Saturday
They brought in two D.OA.s Drugs increase the
night.
number of D.OA.s
considerably.
3.
phencyclidine (P.C.P.). (Because it is deadly.) Stay away from D.OA. There's a good reason why it's called that. The kids use D.OA. no matter what.
n.
doc(s)-in-a-box
n.
a walk-in emergency
some dog on the dog. 5.
Don't step
the lawn. to follow
tr.
The cop dogged Lefty for a week. Stop dogging me, you twit! 6. tr. to stay with one and haunt one. Will this memory dog me all the days of my life? The thought of all that cake and ice cream dogged me all during my diet. 7. tr. to eat something; to eat something He dogged his hamas a dog eats. burger and ran out the door to catch the Here, dog a couple of crackers bus. and cheese. That should keep you from
P
starving.
dog and pony show
n. a demonstration; or other presentation presented often. Wahy was
a speech, that
is
skit,
there with his
water
safety.
dog and pony show about I've seen that dog and
health care center, as found in shop-
pony show so many times,
ping centers. (See also McDoctor(s).) / was cut and went immediately to The the docs-in-a-box in the mall. doc-in-the-box finally closed because of
all the
lack of customers.
something that one is strongly advised to do. (Refers here to any advice given by anyone but a doctor.) / have to spend a month in
doctor's orders
n.
Arizona. Doctor's orders. this
on
doctor's orders, but I
I'm doing
don
't
like
it.
dode
[dod] n. a nerd; a simpleton. Watty is such a dode. My roommate is a loser. I was afraid I'd end up with a
dode.
dodge [dad3]
n.
a swindle; a scam; a de-
What
of dodge did you Gary has a get flimflammed with? new dodge to make money, but he hasn't made any yet. ception.
sort
1. n. a foot. (Usually plural.) My / gotta get home dogs are killing me. and soak my dogs. 2. n. an ugly girl. I'm no dog, but I could wish for some changes. So she's not a movie star; she's not a dog either! 3. n. something undesirable or worthless; merchandise Put the that no one wants to buy. dogs out on the sale table so people will see them. They even bought all the dogs this year. Sales were great. 4. n. dog There's dung. (See also dog-doo.)
dog
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in
someone.
it's
like
I know
words.
dog-dew See dog-doo. dog-do See the following entry. dog-doo and dog-dew; dog-do [dogdu] Don 't step in the dogn. dog dung. doo.
When
the
snow
melts, the side-
walks are covered with dog-doo.
dog-eat-dog mod. cruel; highly competitive. This is a dog-eat-dog world. It's dog-eat-dog out there.
dog meat
n.
a dead person. (Typically in
Make one move, and you're They pulled another hunk dog meat. of gangland dog meat out of the river. a threat.)
n. infantry soldier. (World War Get those Also a term of address.) Did dogfaces over here on the double.
dogface II.
I see a salute, dogface?
doggo [ dogo] mod. hidden away; quiet and waiting. (See also lie doggo.) This error was there, doggo, for nearly Here is another one of thirty years. your doggo deadbeats on this list. doggone(d) ['do'gon(d)] mod. darn(ed); / sort of wish my hooter damn(ed). Who made wasn't so doggone big. this doggoned mess?
doggy bag ['dogibaeg] n. a bag— supplied by a restaurant— in which uneaten food Do you have a can be carried home.
(Don't) you wish!
We do not doggy bag for my mousse? have doggy bags, but we do supply foil. mother n. a bitch; a bitchy person. (Euphemism.) If Sally insists on being a dog's mother on this matter, I'll tell her what I think of her. Stop being a dog's mother and chill out!
dog's
dojigger
name
and
doojigger
[
dud3ig^]
A
for a gadget.
n.
a
doojigger like
worth about a quarter, but you'll pay 100 times that for it. What's this this is
little
doll
dojigger called? 1.
a pretty
n.
girl
or
woman.
Who's the doll I saw you with last night? That doll was my sister, jerk. 2. n. a pill. (Drugs. Usually plural.) She took stuff, yeah, but only dolls. Taking dolls is different from shooting up. dome-doctor n. a psychologist or psychiatrist. They sent me to a dome-doctor, but it didn't help. The dome-doctor lets me talk while he keeps score.
done by mirrors and done with mirrors mod. illusory; purposefully deceptive. The whole budgetary process is done with mirrors. The self-review was done by mirrors and didn't
done deal
n.
thing that
is
come
off too bad.
a completed deal; somesettled.
It's
too
late. It's
a done deal. The sale of the property is a done deal. There is nothing that can be done now.
done for mod.
lost; dead; doomed. whole scheme is done for. / knew I was done for.
I'm
sorry, this
done over mod. beat; outscored. The other team was done over, and they knew it. Bruno felt that Max would get the idea if he was done over a little. done to a turn nicely cooked.
done to a a turn.
2.
turn.
mod. well-cooked; The entire meal was The turkey was done to
1.
mod. beaten.
When
Wilbur's
opponent was done to a turn, Wilbur was declared the winner. Max was done to a turn, and Bruno walked away.
done with mirrors See done by mirrors. donkey's breakfast n. something made of straw: a straw hat, a straw mattress,
/
etc.
don
't
really
want
donkey's breakfast, but the floor.
red dress
to sleep
it's
on a
better than
The tourist was wearing a and had a donkey's breakfast
on her head. I haven't donkey's years n. a long time. It's been seen you in donkey's years. donkey's years since we talked.
donnybrook n. a big argument; a brawl. There was a big donnybrook at the concert, and the police were called. Who started this donnybrook? Don't ask. pressing,
sent. "The answer is so deyou don't even want to hear
How am I? Don't ask. it." has been a horrible day. How you say? Don't ask.
This horrible,
Don't ask me. sent. "I don't know ei/ ther." (With the emphasis on me.) Don't ask don't know. Don't ask me. me. I wasn't there. Don't call us, we'll call you. sent, a formulaic expression given to job applicants who have just interviewed or auditioned for a job. Thank you, Eddie Evans. Don 't call us, we'll call you. Stupendous, Gloria, just stupendous. What glamour and radiance! Don't call us, we'll call you.
Don't have a cow! exclam. "Calm down!"; "Don't get so excited!" (Made famous in the television show, The Simpsons.) Chill out, man! Don *t have a cow! Aw, don 't have a cow, dad! Don't
I
it!
like
know
it!
exclam. "That
is
really
Don't I know Late? Don 't I know it. I'm yawning
true!"
It's
bad
all right.
hot cakes.
Don't make
me
laugh! exclam. "That
a stupid suggestion!"
is
You a judge?
make me laugh! Don't make me laugh. Tom could never do that.
Don't
Don't sweat it! exclam. "Don't worry about it!" No problem. Don't sweat it! Don't sweat it! We'll take care of it. (Don't) you wish! exclam. "I'm sure you
wish it were true." You think you'll win? Don't you wish! There's no school tomorrow? You wish!
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.
doo
doo See do. doo-doo ['dudu] 1. and (do-)do ['dudu] n. dung, especially animal dung. (See also dog-doo.) Don't step in the doo-doo. There's a lot ofpigeon doo-
doo
the
in
attic.
2.
in.
to defecate.
(Juvenile.) Jimmy was reminded that he had to remember to doo-doo in the potty. He has to doo-doo before he
The trade show was a real doozy Old Gert was a real doozy.
doowacky i
[duMaeki] 1. n. a thing; a nameless gadget. Where is the doowacky I laid here? Is this your doowacky? I was going to throw it away. 2. n.
You got some doowacky lean I'm out of doowacky myself.
money.
doozie See doosie.
doobage See dubage.
and dooby; duby
[
dubijn. a mar-
ijuana cigarette; a fat marijuana ciga-
Max sells doobies like
(Drugs.) they were candy. rette.
this
year.
borrow?
goes to bed, too.
doobie
doosie and doozie; doozy [ duzi] n. something extraordinary, good or bad.
Want a doobie?
dooby See the previous
doozy See doosie.
dope
1. n. a stupid person. I'm not such a dope. That dope has done it again! 2. n. drugs in general; marijuana.
Lay
entry.
off the dope, will
ya?
How
much dope do you do in a week anyway? doodad dudaed] n. a name for a gadget. What are these little doodads? / don't know what they're called. If they had names, they wouldn't be doodads, now would they? [
and dufer [duf^] n. a (found or borrowed) cigarette saved for smoking at another time. (It will "do for" later.) Sam always has a doofer stuck behind his ear. He takes two fags, one smoke and a [
dufas]
dufer. n.
My roommate and
doofer
to
news; scuttlebutt.
a jerk; a nerd.
Hank, you are acting like a doofus. Stop standing on your head. My roommate is a doofus and I'm tired of putting up with her.
is really
and and
doohickey;
doohickie for a gadget. Toss me that little red doohickey, will you? Jim has one of those doohickies that will tighten the bit in the 'duhiki] n. a
name
drill.
dook
[duk] mod. really bad. (Probably
related to duky.)
dook
ideas!
doormat
n.
No more
of your
This day was really dook!
a weak-willed person who is / always feel like a Why do people treat me like
It
was dope
dope something out tr. to figure out something from the dope (information) available. I think I can dope this thing out from the evidence available. EE We can dope out the truth from her testimony if we have to. dope up 1. in. to inject drugs; to take a dose of a narcotic. (Drugs.) I'm hurting man, I gotta dope up, now! She slipped into the back room to dope to purchase a supply of drugs.
in.
Where's
(Drugs.)
I gotta dope up.
['dud3ig^
dope. Great guy!
dudical.
up. 2.
doohickey See the following entry. doojigger
What's the
We had a great time there.
(doodly-) squat See diddly-squat.
doofus
3. n.
dope on the new mayor? / got some dope on the tavern fire if you want to hear it. 4. mod. best; most excellent.
himself.
He
my old friend Max? Max is doping up,
doesn 't grow
it
himself,
you
know.
dopey
1.
guy!
What a dopey mod. stupid. That was a dopey thing to do. 2.
/ feel sort of dopey. mod. sleepy. The soft music made him dopey. 3. mod. He looks sort of drug intoxicated. The chick is too dopey to drive. dopey. See that she gets home, Ralphy, huh?
dorf [dorf]
n.
a stupid person; a weird
You are a prize-winning dorf
abused by others.
person.
doormat. a doormat?
Is there a convention of dorfs here today or something?
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dork [dork] offensive.
the penis. (Potentially
1. n.
Use only with
discretion.)
Paul told a joke about a dork, but everybody just sat there and looked straight ahead. He covered his dork and squatted down; then he reached up and
down
pulled
the shade. 2.
n.
a jerk; a
strange person. (See also megadork.)
Ye gods, Sally! You are a dork! Here comes the king of dorks again.
dork off
in.
to waste time; to
goof off.
Stop dorking off and get busy. The whole class was dorking off and the teacher got furious.
dorkmeier and dorkmunder [dorkmair and dorkmanda^] n. a total jerk; a simpleton. Ellen, stop acting like such a dorkmeier! Fred is my idea of the perfect dorkmunder.
dorkmunder See
the previous entry.
dorkus maximus [dorkas 'maeksimssjn.
Tim is now the dorkus maximus of our dorm since he broke the dorm 's television set. Sally is a dorkus maximus and spaced a simpleton or fool; a great fool.
out to boot.
dorky
[
idea. Just forget
That It's
it.
is
a real dorky
just too dorky.
Let me out of this dorky place! / wouldn't be caught dead wearing that dorky hat.
you do's
n.
dormitory.
O Which dorm do
Fred lives in a co-ed dorm.
live in ?
and don'ts
n.
the rules; the things
done and those that should not be done. / must admit that a lot of the do's and don'ts don't that should be
make much
sense to
learn the do's
me either.
Better
and don'ts immediately.
double
n. a drink consisting two servings of liquor. Make mine a double, bar-
tender.
it.
See also Bag your face!; Fred is
triple-bagger, coyote-ugly.)
what I would a mug!
/
a double-bagger. What
call
am no double-bagger!
double-barreled slingshot n. a brassiere. Why does she wear a red doubleWho dropped a barreled slingshot? double-barreled slingshot on the floor?
double buffalo See double nickels. double cross (Originally a
1.
tr.
to betray
someone.
more complicated
switch-
ing of sides in a conspiracy wherein the
double-crosser sides with the victim of the conspiracy— against the original
C
conspirator.) Don't even think about Max double double crossing me! crossed Mr. Big a few years back. 2. n. a betrayal. (See comments with sense 1.) He always remembered that double cross. It's one double cross Max is sorry about.
double-crosser n. a person who betrays someone. (Often with dirty. See com-
ments at double cross.) You dirty, lowdown double-crosser, you! Max is the classic double-crosser.
dorki] mod. strange; weird; un-
desirable; stupid.
dorm
to conceal
Sam
usually has two doubles
on the way home. double-bagger 1. n. a hit good for two bases in baseball. Wilbur hit a nice double-bagger in the top of the fourth. The hit was good for a double-bagger. 2. n. a very ugly person. (Cruel. With a face so ugly that it takes two paper bags
double-decker
1. n.
a two-level bus.
like to ride in double-deckers.
double-deckers don't have tops.
sandwich of two
layers.
/
Some 2. n.
a
He put away
a giant double-decker and a glass of milk.
How can anybody eat a double-decker that
is
so thick?
double-deuces n. the number 22. The National Weather Service says it's going down to the double-deuces tonight. He's double-deuces today, that's right twenty-two years old!
double-dipper
n.
a person
who
collects
employee who collects a federal pension and Social Security. The voters of the state were shocked to learn that there were no laws against double-dippers. The doubletwo
salaries; a federal
dippers say they weren 't doing anything
wrong.
double-dome 1. n. an intellectual. It's not that what the double-domes say is wrong, it's that they are so sure that they are right that scares me. I'd rather
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be just folks than a double-dome.
2.
mod. intellectual. No more of your double-dome ideas. Most kids need to be exposed to double-dome profs at college for a while.
double-gaited mod. weird; eccentric. Carl is a little double-gaited at times. Tries too hard for a laugh. Wow, is he
She is one of the most successful double-gaited comediever double-gaited!
ans
I've ever seen.
The
(Originally citizens
buffalo
band
radio.
on one side of the nickel
is
and accounts for the 5.) You'd better on those double nickels in through here. The bears are hungry. The double buffalo is enforced on this travel right
road.
double saw(buck) n. a twenty-dollar bill. (See also sawbuck.) This whole thing only cost a double sawbuck. Can you loan me a double sawbuck till payday?
double take n. a surprised second look at something. I did a double take and blushed. Fred did a double take, then
O
recognized Tracy.
double-trouble n. thing or person. double-trouble.
a very troublesome
Oh, oh. Here comes That car you got is
double-trouble.
double up (with laughter) in. to laugh so hard that one bends over. We all just doubled up with laughter. / doubled up when I heard the punch line.
whammy
dab} /waemi] n. a double portion of something, especially something troublesome. (From Li 7 Abner, a comic strip by Al Capp.) We got a real double whammy of trouble
down
[
at the office.
to
buy
dough head n. a nerd; a simpleton. Tom, don't be such a dough head. Read the instructions and do it right. Fred, ypu are a real dough head! Why did you do that? dove [dav] n. someone who supports a peace-seeking U.S. defense policy. (Compare to hawk.) The doves want
and distribute the money The hawks want to ignore poor and the doves and buy tanks
to the poor.
the
with the money.
down
1.
This morning was
mod. depressed; melancholy.
(See also
down
with something.)
/
We're all a litof down today. tle down. 2. mod. (of a machine) inoperative. (Originally said of a computer.) The system is down. Come back later. How long has it been down? 3. tr. to eat or drink something down quickly. He downed a can of soda and burped She downed her like a thunderclap. sandwich in record time. 4. tr. to throw someone down, as in wrestling; to knock someone down as in a fight. Wilbur downed his opponent and won the match. Paul downed the guy with one blow. 5. mod. behind in a score. We're three points down with two min-
feel sort
They're twenty points
utes to play.
down, and it looks like the Adamsville team has won. 6. mod. finished; comWell, Vvegotthe pleted; behind one. One down and test down. Now what? three to go. 7. mod. learned; memorized.
double
some dough
groceries.
to sell the tanks
double nickels and double buffalo n. the number 55; the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit.
/ need
found.
dates
(From sense 6.) Vve down pat.
/ got all the
got the dates
down, but not the names. 8. mod. okay; satisfactory; cool; in agreement. (See also be down (with someone). The grammar error in the second example is part of the typical context.)
We had
down now.
Me and
bad, but this afternoon the boss gave us
a
a double whammy.
This him is down and always will be. guy is really down. 9. mod. prepared; knowledgeable. (From sense 7 and 8.)
douche bag
a repellent person; a disliked person. (Crude.) Oh, shut up, n.
you old douche bag! douche bag!
dough
[do] n.
I got a
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Don't be a
money. (See also bread.) of dough for that ring I
lot
fight,
but we're
Are you down for the
test
tomorrow?
down
for the party. 10. Five beers mod. alcohol intoxicated. They were all and he was down. Everything's
down by midnight.
11.
See downer.
dragged
down
mod. inactive for
for the count I've got
boxing.) think I'm
a
terrible
down for the
down for the
(From cold, and I
(of something).
the duration
Fred
count.
is
count. He's in jail.
down the drain mod. gone; wasted. Well, there's 400 bucks down the drain. A lot of money went down the drain in that
Down
Wilson deal. exclam. "Let's drink
the hatch!
(A drinking
it!"
Down
toast.
the hatch!
See also hatch.)
(Drugs.) That stuff you gave me was Dust is a downer for a real downer. most people. 3. n. a depressing event; a These bad situation; a down trip. My cloudy days are always downers. birthday party was a downer.
downie See the previous
entry.
n. a gangster's woman. (Underworld. Old.) Lefty's doxy dropped Does off this package. It's ticking.
doxy [ daksi]
Max have a doxy?
Have another? dozens See
Bottoms up! Down the hatch! n. the time when a computer not operating. (Compare to up time.) / can 't afford a lot of down time in the system I buy. We had too much down time with the other machine.
down time is
D.Q.
n.
(dirty) dozens.
"Dairy Queen," a trade
name
for a franchise fast-food store specializing
frozen desserts.
in
Teens and D.Q., okay?
(Initialism.
Let's
collegiate.)
The D.Q.
is
go
to
closed for
the winter.
down
mod.
to the wire
minute.
It
until the very last
came down
to the wire
before I turned the proposal
went
right
down
to the wire
We
in.
on that one.
draft board n. a tavern; a saloon. (Alis
down
slamming some
beers.
Larry
ludes to draft beer.) at the draft board,
Let's stop in the local draft
down
any bad experience. (Compare to downer.) Today was a classic down trip. My vacation was a down trip n.
down under Australia.
under.
n.
the area of Australia;
I've
always wanted to visit We spent Christmas
under.
down with something
1.
mod.
com-
fortable with something; comfortable. Let's get down some good music. Pete wanted to get down with some grapes. 2. mod. ill with something; sick in bed with something. / was down with the flu for two weeks. Fred and his wife were down
(Usually with get.)
with
with colds for weeks at a time.
downbeat mod. cool; easygoing. (Compare to upbeat.) He is sort of a downbeat character— no stress. / wish I was downbeat like he is. [J I had sort of a downbeat day. Not your typical Monday.
downer and down; downie
1. n.
a bar-
biturate or a tranquilizer. (Drugs.)
She favors downers. with those downers, n.
toss
drafty
Too much booze and you 're dead. 2.
a bad drug experience; a
down
trip.
drag
board
a couple.
n. a
draft beer; beer.
a cold drafty?
trip.
down down
and
1. n.
How about
Another drafty, Tom?
something dull and boring.
This day's a drag.
What a
drag. Let's
go someplace interesting. 2. n. an annoying person; a burdensome person. Gert could sure (Compare to schlep.) be a drag when she wanted. Clare was a drag whether she wanted to be or not. You got a drag 3. n. a (female) date. My drag finked out for the dance yet? on me. 4. n. a puff of a cigarette. He took a big drag and scratched at his tattoo. One more drag and he coughed for a while and stubbed out the fag. 5. tr: to pull or puff on a cigarette. She dragged a couple and sat in the funk for When she dragged a fag, you a while. could see her relax and get straight. 6. tr. to race a car against
someone
in a car.
someone;
to race
I'm planning
to
drag you at the fairgrounds next Saturday. Better be there. / don't drag anybody anymore. I lost my license.
dragged mod. anxious or frightened after smoking marijuana. (Drugs. Compare to wired.) The kid was dragged. You
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dragged out
could
he didn't hav\
tell
ience with the real world.
much experSome of
other!" time.
Okay, drink up! It's closing Drink up, and let's get going.
these burnouts really look dragged.
drinkies
dragged out mod. exhausted; worn out. / feel so dragged out. I think I need some iron. After the game, the whole team was dragged out.
Okay,
['dnrjkiz] n. drinks; liquor. kids,
What time drinkypoo
it's
is
drinkies all around.
drinkies
around here?
n. a little drink of Wouldn't you like just one more drinkypoo of Madeira? Just a
dnrjkipu]
[
liquor.
draggin'-wagon n. a fast car; a car customized for racing. My draggin'-
wagon is in the shop. wagon can be driven 't
in
Your draggin town, can it?
little
drip
an oaf; a nerd.
n.
such a drain I. n. someone or something that exhausts one. Harry is such a drain on me. What a drain these meetings are.
2.
tr.
Arguing
out.
me something Your constant bickering is
like that drains
awful.
meant
wear someone
to
to drain
me till I submit.
my dear.
drinkypoo,
-
Is that it?
drain the bilge in. to empty one's stomach; to vomit. Fred left quickly to drain the bilge. Who drained the bilge in the bushes? Drat! [draet] exclam. "Damn!" Drat! I'm late! Oh, drat! Another broken
drip.
Oh, yuck. He's
Bob is a
but
drip, I guess,
he's harmless.
drippy mod. weak; ineffective; undesirable. Bob can be so drippy without even trying. You are proposing some pretty drippy ideas.
someone around the bend tr. someone crazy. (See also
drive to
drive
(a)round the bend.) This tax stuff is about to drive me around the bend. Gert tried to drive us drive
all
around the bend.
someone bonkers and drive sometr. to drive someone crazy.
one nuts
This cold is (See also bonkers, nuts.) These tax forms me bonkers.
nail!
driving
dreamboat
n. just
the kind of lover
has always dreamed
one
(Also a term of address.) Oh, Pete is my dreamboat. A face man makes a great dreamboat, as long as you never get to know him.
dreck
[drek]
n.
(From German
garbage; via Yiddish.) dirt;
feces.
What
dreck in the comer? I've had enough of this dreck around here. Clean it up, or I'm leaving. is all this
mod. dressed in fancy or clothes to impress someone.
dressed to stylish
She
is
kill
always dressed to kill. I'm never kill. I just try to be neat.
dressed to
dressed to the nines and dressed to the teeth mod. dressed very stylishly with nothing overlooked. She showed up for the picnic dressed to the nines. Clare is usually dressed to the teeth in order to impress people.
dressed to the teeth
See the previous
entry.
Drink up! exclam. "Finish your drink!"; "Finish that drink, and we'll have an-
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are driving
me nuts.
of.
drive
someone nuts
See the previous
entry.
someone up the wall tr. to frustrate someone; to drive someone to distraction. These days of waiting drive me up the wall. Staying in the house drove us all up the wall.
drive
drive the big bus
and drive
the porcelain
bus; ride the porcelain bus tr. to vomit Harry's in the john into the toilet. driving the big bus.
Who do
I
hear
driving the porcelain bus in the john?
drive the porcelain bus See the previous entry.
droid nerd.
[droid] n. a robot-like person; a
(From android.)
Beavis
close to a droid as we'll ever see.
is
as
The
droids are taking over this campus.
droob and drube [drub] n. a dullard; Who's the droob standing by an oaf. That drube is my the punch bowl? brother!
drop out
(all) over someone or something tr. show enormous desire for someone or something. He was just drooling all over that new car. Sam was drooling
drool to
over Martha like a love-sick
calf.
drop
1.
tr.
to
kill
someone or something.
He dropped the deer with one shot. 2. in. to get arrested. (Underworld.) I'm not going to drop for you. Bruno dropped, but Mr. Big got him off. 3. tr. to knock someone down. Jim dropped Willard with a punch to the shoulder. The swinging board hit him and dropped him. 4. n. a small drink of liquor; a small serving of liquor. I'll take just another drop of that dew, if you don't mind. Can I give you another drop? 5. n. a place at which drugs, alcohol, or other contraband is left to be claimed by the
The police discovered the
drop and waited for the runner. They switched drops constantly just in case of discovery. 6. tr. to take a drug, specifically acid. (Drugs.) Ted dropped some stuff and went on a trip. Now he doesn 't drop even once a month.
drop a bomb(shell) See drop a
drop a bop
tr.
(See also bop.)
bop and went on
drug
anybody
Drop
Wanna
his way.
to reveal startling information. Tracy came in and dropped a brick that scared us all. You really dropped a
bombshell!
money
candidate,
pleasing or entertaining
/ dropped a bundle
and
it
Over the years,
on
didn 't help I've
on the
me
at
all.
dropped a bundle
clients at that restaurant. 2.
something]
See
drop a dime these days.
dead! exclam. "No!"; "Beat don't bother me!"
it!";
/
Drop
don't care. Just drop dead! it!
drop-dead 1. mod. stunning enough to make one drop dead. (Not literal.) / had my living room done in a bright drop-dead red that makes your blood run cold! She stood up and made this drop-dead announcement about getting married, and I thought I would just scream. 2. mod. rude, as if telling someone to drop dead. I couldn't stand the boss's drop-dead attitude, so I quit. She looked at me with that kind of dropdead look that really made me mad. drop-dead list n. an imaginary list of annoying people whom one could live
You are
happily without. top of
on
my
Drop
my
drop-dead drop-dead list.
right at the
/ put
list.
Max
"Forget it!"; "Never Never mind! Just drop it! I should never have brought it
exclam.
it!
mind!" it!
drop one's cookies
to pay a lot of
tr.
[with
money
for
tr.
empty one's
to
stomach; to vomit. (See also toss one's cookies.) The runner went off to the side and dropped her cookies. If you feel like you 're going to drop your cookies,
don do 't
it
on the
drop one's teeth
when she
told
dropped their was married.
drop out
tr.
carpet.
to react with great
/ almost dropped
surprise.
drop a bundle (on someone or something) 1. tr. [with someone] to spend of
will
"Go away and
tr.
lot
(Underworld.
up.
come over and drop a bop or two?
a
to inform the police of
in pill
drop a brick and drop a bomb(shell)
someone.
tr.
activity.
We explanation at dime-dropper.) were pretty sure that Tracy is the one who dropped the dime. No, almost
Drop
brick.
form. Tyrone dropped a
to take a
drop a dime
dead! Beat
Lefty tried to drop the leader of the gang.
recipient.
never dropped a bundle on anything.
criminal
droopy-drawers n. someone— usually a child— whose pants are falling down. (Also a term of address.) Hey, droopy-drawers, pull up your pants. Jimmy is a regular droopy-drawers. Maybe he needs suspenders.
Pete dropped a bundle on / always buy el cheapo. I've
something. this car.
me
teeth
my
her news.
when
I told
teeth
They them I
from a conSometimes I just want to drop out and raise pigs or something. Ted dropped out and bought a farm. 2. in. to drop out of school or 1. in.
to withdraw
ventional lifestyle.
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drop someone
some
organization.
/
fore I got promoted.
't
You regret someone who has dropped out of
school. n.
dropped out be-
Don drop out of 3. and dropout
'11
it.
Dropouts find
school.
to get a job.
Some
very
it
hard
dropouts make but not
great successes of themselves, very many.
drop someone tr. to knock someone down; to punch and knock down a person. Fred dropped Bruno with one punch to the jaw. Max lost his cool and dropped Bruno. drop someone or something potato
tr.
like
a hot
to disassociate oneself with
someone or something instantly. When we learned of the conviction, we dropped him like a hot potato. / dropped the idea
like
a hot potato.
about once a month. The drugheads are taking over this neighborhood. river
drugola [drag'ola] n. a bribe paid by drug dealers to the police for protection. (Patterned on payola.) Max pays a little drugola, but mostly the cops never come into this area anyway. A lot of drugola is simply paid in drugs. drugstore cowboy n. a male who hangs around drugstores and other public places trying to impress women.
You don't see the old drugstore cowboys around this part of town anymore. The drugstore cowboys of years ago are all hidden away shooting up something.
drunk back mod. alcohol
intoxicated;
The whole bunch was drunk back by midnight. Larry was drunk back and couldn drive us home. very drunk.
't
drop the ball tr. to fail at something; to allow something to fail. / didn't want to be the one who dropped the ball, but I knew that someone would flub up. Sam dropped the ball, and we lost the contract.
drug
1. in. to use drugs. (Drugs.) There is no way that she will stop drugging by herself. Why does she drug so
and drug out mod. down; depressed. Man, am I drug! We are all drug out after that meeting. heavily? 2.
n.
up in the The drug lords
a drug dealer high
distribution chain.
Mr. Big seem never to get arrested. Max had always admired the sheer power of the domestic drug lord. like
and druggy
here. this
n. a drug addict or That druggy loves to hang out There are too many druggies in
neighborhood.
(Drugs.)
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n.
1.
drunk tank
really
and Saturday
nights.
mod. sober; no longer alcohol Tracy's dry, I hear.
intoxicated.
How
long will
Emie
stay dry? 2. n. a
an abstainer from alcohol. The drys are in an increasing majority. Do you know even one dry? 3. mod. having to do with a region where alcoholic beverages cannot be
d
dry-as-dust mod. dull; take another tures.
Some
in the
lifeless.
I can't
one of his dry-as-dust
lec-
All her ideas are dry-as-dust. dry-as-dust old crock talked end-
about old bones.
Dry up! exclam. "Shut up!"; "Go away Aw, dry up! and don't bother me!" Dry up and beat it! I've heard enough. tr. & in. to duplicate someDub this copy something. He's busy and keep a copy yourself. dubbing right now. 2. n. a duplicate; The dub was so poor we a copy.
[dob]
thing; to
a heavy drug user; an addict.
They find a drughead
purchased. (Compare to wet.) Is still dry? I hate to get stuck in Some small towns are a dry town. dry, but not many.
Kansas
dub
druggy See the previous entry.
drughead
dry
lessly
drug out See drug.
user.
in the
made me think about alcohol. They hose down the drunk tank every hour on
prohibitionist;
drube See droob.
druggie
couple of hours
Friday
dropped mod. arrested. Max was dropped only once last year. He got himself dropped on a speeding ticket.
drug lord
drunk tank a jail cell where drunks are kept. (Compare to junk tank.) A n.
1.
duky
This couldn 't understand the dialog. is an almost perfect dub of the original.
dubage and doobage [dubids]
n.
drugs;
/ demarijuana. (See also doobie.) tect the smell of dubage in the hallway! Bill kept his doobage in an old shoe in his closet.
duby See doobie. duc-ducs See the following entry. ducats and duc-ducs ['dakats and 'dakdaks] n. money. (See also gold.) Who's got enough ducats to pay for the tickets? I've got duc-ducs galore!
duck
1. n.
a male urinal bedpan. (Hos-
quick. 2.
Somebody in room 212 needs Take this duck down there tr. to avoid someone or some-
thing.
Clare
pitals.)
a duck
is
ducking her responsibi-
You can't duck this investigation. They're on to you. 3. See deduct
lity.
duck butt and dusty butt person, especially
n.
a short
someone with
large
buttocks. (Also a rude term of address.
The duck butt reminds me of some-
Potentially offensive.)
who
just
came
in
body I once knew. Hey, dusty where you been keeping yourself?
butt,
duck-squeezer n. someone with strong concerns about the environment and conservation, especially rescuing
oil-
covered ducks. (See also eagle freak.) Some duck-squeezers were complaining about what the new dam might do. The duck-squeezers were picketing the
dam site. ducks
n.
You got the ducks There were no ducks left.
tickets.
ducky mod. okay; good. (Often used sarcastically.) Now, isn't that just ducky? That's a ducky idea! [dad]
dude up in. to dress up. duded up and go out. up a little before we go.
1. n.
a failure; something that
fails to perform as intended. The whole idea turned out to be a dud. The play was a dud from start to finish. 2. See duds.
dude [dud]
1. n. a male friend; a guy. (Also a term of address.) Who's the dude with the cowboy boots? Hey,
dude, what's happ? 2. mod. excellent.
Let's get all / got to
dude
dudette [ dudet] n. a young woman; the Susan is one finefeminine of dude. The place was filled looking dudette. with good-looking dudettes, just waiting for the right guy to come along. dudik}] mod. [ from dude.) to see you here, Dave.
dudical rived
really good. // is truly
(De-
dudical
What a dudical
crib!
duds [dadz] plural.)
clothes. (Folksy. Always Are those new duds? /
n.
need some new duds,
too.
dufer See doofer. duff [daf]
Get offyour Don't you get tired around on your duff? n.
the buttocks.
duff and get busy.
of sitting
duffer [dafa^]
a foolish oaf; a
1. n.
bler.
Some
2. n.
an unskilled
hum-
old duffer is weeding our garden for us. He's lost, I think. Pete's just a duffer— he's not really serious at it. fers
Don't
duke
golfer.
up ahead are holding up call
1. in.
to
Those dufthe game.
me a duffer! empty one's stomach;
to
Rhymes with puke.) duke. I saw how green he
vomit. (Collegiate.
He was. goat. 2.
for Friday?
dud
The game was (See also dudical.) This whole dude! We won! day has been dude and fat.
severely
left to
She's in the john, duking like a
See dukes.
duke someone out
tr.
to
out. (See also dukes.)
knock someone Wilbur tried to
duke the guy out first. WBob duked out the mugger with a jab to the cheek. Okay, brother, put dukes 1. n. the fists. your dukes up. The guy's got dukes like hams. 2. n. the knees. He went down on his dukes and prayed for all sorts of good stuff. He cracked one of his dukes on the railing.
duky [duki] n. feces. (Originally black and primarily juvenile.) The doggie made duky in the backyard. Mommy, there's duky in Jimmy's diaper. 113
dull as dishwater
mod. very
dull as dishwater
dumbhead
dull.
She's cute, but dull as dishwater.
Life
can be as dull as dishwater. dull roar
a relatively quiet degree of
n.
Hey,
noisiness.
simmer down
Try to keep
roar!
it
to
a dull
at a dull roar ifyou
can.
is
Home
just dullsville!
is
something was downtown dullsville for sure. When each movie I see turns into dullsville, I want to give up a teenager.
dullsville to
The
dull.
ddmbo] 1. n. a stupid oaf. (Also [ a rude term of address.) Say, dumbo,
fouldyou move out of the way?
seeing them.
dumb-ass and stupid-ass mod.
stupid.
Use only with
That was a dumb-ass You can be such a stupid-
discretion.)
large ears. (Also a rude term of address. The name of a cartoon character elephant whose ears were large
enough
at that
ass jerk!
dumb bunny n. a stupid person; an oaf. Who the dumb bunny in the doubleknits? Don't be a dumb bunny. Pay 's
attention to what's going on.
cluck
n.
a stupid oaf; a person as
stupid as a chicken.
dumb
cluck, but she
Sally is
sort
is
not a
of slow.
What a dumb cluck! [ dam dodo] n. a very stupid person. What a dumb-dodo you are! I'm no dumb-dodo!
dumb-dodo
dumb Dora woman.
a stupid woman; a giddy I'm no dumb Dora. I'm just
n.
dumb Dora with and long fingernails?
Who's the
learning.
the blonde hair
dumb-dumb and dum-dum oaf; a dullard.
dumb-dumb Marvin
n.
even
no dum-dum. He
is
a stupid
You can be such a
without
ox
n.
usually a
[damski] l.n a stupid person. He's not the dumbski he seems to be. They used to think Gert was a dumbWhat a ski. 2. mod. stupid; dumb. dumbski jerk! [3 It is not a dumbski idea!
dummy
an empty liquor or beer dummies over here, That was and I'll put them in the bin. a sixty dummy party. I counted. 2. n. a The tramp collected cigarette butt. dummies until he had enough for a The guy tossed a dummy out smoke. 1. n.
Toss your
the
window of his
dummy up
in.
What does that dumb Do you think I'm going to
dumbbell n. a stupid oaf. (Also a rude term of address.) Look, dumbbell, pay attention! I'm afraid I come on like a dumbbell sometimes.
I'm
to refuse to talk. (Under-
world. See also
clam up.)
Tracy
dummied up when they got her into the Rocko dummied up right station. away. He's a real thoroughbred.
dump
1.
tr.
& in. to empty one's stomach;
He ran straight to the john She turned and dumped his dinner. green, and I knew she was going to dump. to vomit.
2. in.
to defecate. (Crude. Potentially
Use only with discretion. See He dumped one's had.) He said he had came back.
also
man.
a stupid per-
no dummy!
just looks
a large and stupid person,
car. 3. n.
Don't be such a dummy.
son.
offensive.
ox want? argue with that big dumb ox?
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/
new glasses, or I'm going to be a dumbo when my head starts growing.
trying.
that way.
dumb
with size twenty ears!
better get
bottle.
dumb
Wow, look
to fly with.)
dumbo
dumb ski
dum dum See dumb-dumb.
thing to do!
Who's
dumbo in the plaid pants? 2. n. some-
2. n.
lecture
(Potentially offensive.
is
one with
dalzvil] 1. n. a dull place.
[
This place
Bob
a stupid person.
dumbo
the
dullsville
n.
no dumbhead, but he sure is strange. I'm no dumbhead. Just a little slow.
dump
and then to dump.
an act of defecation. Use only with He said he needed a discretion.) He had a dump and then came dump. back. 4. n. a low or cheap establishI want out of this dump. ment; a joint. My mama didn't raise me to spend the rest of my days in a run-down dump 3. n.
(Potentially offensive.
like this.
Dutch
dump
over someone or something
all
dump on someone
See do a
or some-
dump on someone
or something 1. in. to snow on someone or something. Well, it dumped On us again last night. The cold front dumped on the north-
See do a someone or something.
east again today. 2.
dump
one's load 1. stomach; to vomit.
dumping his
dump
to
in.
load.
dump on
empty one's
He's in the john Why can 't he leam
load silently? 2. in. to defecate. (Crude. Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion. Also with a.) He had to go dump a load. He dumped his load and settled back down to work. his
dumped on
1.
mod. maligned; abused.
/ really feel dumped on. The jerk who designed this stupid congested stair-
way hasn't been dumped on enough. 2. mod. snowed on. The entire Midwest was dumped on with about ten inches of snow. Our town really got dumped on last night.
dupe
1. n.
The crooks
found a good dupe and started their scheme. / don want to be a dupe for anybody. 2. tr. to trick someone; to swindle someone. You tried to dupe me! / did not try to dupe you. It was an honest mistake. 3. n. a duplicate; a copy. Make a dupe of this before you send it off. I've got a dupe in the files. 4. tr. to duplicate something; to copy something. Dupe this and send the 't
original back.
Just a minute, I have to
dupe a contract for the 1. in.
boss.
to leave; to depart.
it's
I gotta dust.
there at
We
dusted the other team, eighty- seven In the second game, they dusted us. 3. tr. to kill someone. (Underto fifty-four.
world.)
The gang
set
out to dust the
one of them, Max knew that Bruno was out to dust witnesses, but only got
him.
a
5. n.
the dust that can really
powdered (P.C.P.),
tobacco for rolling cigaHow about a little candy bar? / don want
4. n. fine
rettes. (Prisons.)
dust for this
't
It's
do you damage.
Wally got hold of some kind of dust and took it to the police. 6. tr. to add a powdered drug to the end of a (tobacco Pete or cannabis) cigarette. (Drugs.) Max never dusted one, then lit it up. dusts them before he sells them.
dust of angels See angel dust.
someone a Bruno dust Max off. CE Bob
dust someone off
tr.
to give
good pounding or beating. threatened
to
dusted off Larry; then he started for Tom.
dust someone's pants tr. to spank someone, usually a child. My dad will dust my pants if he hears about this. I'm too old for
somebody
to dust
my pants.
Max got in a dust-up dust-up n. a fight. with Bruno. There was a dust-up at that ruined the evening for
the party
everyone. n.
the buttocks. (See also rusty-
She
dusty.)
fell
down
My duster is
duster.
on her
right
sore from all that
riding.
dusty butt See duck butt. act and Dutch cure n. suicide. (Always with the.) Well, Ken took the Dutch cure last week. So sad. She had tried the Dutch act many times in
Dutch
the past.
Dutch courage 1. n. liquor; false courage from drinking liquor. A couple of shots of Dutch courage, and he was ready to
Well,
They dusted out of about midnight. 2. tr. to defeat someone; to win out over someone.
late.
heroin, phencyclidine
duster a potential victim of a con-
fidence trick; a patsy.
dust
need chocolate.
drug:
cocaine; fine cannabis. (Drugs.)
thing.
to
dust. I
treat
face anything.
Dutch courage first
act?
2. n.
How
to help
about a
Max
drugs.
deals in
Dutch courage, as he calls it. much Dutch courage and you 're manent trouble.
Dutch cure See Dutch Dutch treat where the
n.
little
you through the
Too in per-
act.
an outing for two or more
cost
is split
among
the parti-
cipants, either evenly or in proportion to
what
Dutch.) celebrate
consumed. (See also go propose a Dutch treat to the day. We had a Dutch is
/
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Dutch uncle
treat,
which gave us a chance
to get to
know one another better. Dutch uncle
n.
man who
gives advice
with the directness of one of one's own relatives. If I can be a Dutch uncle for a minute, I could give you some good advice. Dutch uncles can be as big of
a pain as parents.
dweeb
an earnest student. Don't call Bob a dweeb! Even if he is one. The dweebs get all the A's, so why work? 2. n. a strange [dwib]
1. n.
(Collegiate.)
or eccentric person; a nerd. This place is filled with dweebs of all sizes. Here comes a dweeb. Ask him for some
money.
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n.
a very
(From program. Used
special pair of people or things.
someone who gives avun-
cular advice; a
dynamic duo [dainaemik 'duo] the
Batman
television
mostly for humor.) The dynamic duo, Beavis and Fred, showed up late and without the beer. Next time tell the
dynamic duo dynamite
[
to
come earlier.
damamait]
1.
n.
anything
potentially powerful: a drug, news, a is really dynamite! about the scandal was dynamite and kept selling papers for a month. 2. mod. excellent; powerful. / want some more of your dynamite
person.
The
This chick
story
enchiladas, please.
dynamite, too.
These tacos are
E 86
tr.
someone or somesomeone or something. this out and 86 it. He
to dispose of
thing; to nix
Please take
wants $400? 86 that!
We can
't
afford
it.
eager-beaver n. a person who is very eager to do something. Rocko is an eager-beaver when it comes to collecting money for Mr. Big. The eager-beavers were trying to buy tickets yesterday!
/
Sally.
a busybody; a person
1. n.
who
2.
n.
for his part in the prank. earl [&\] n. to vomit. (Onomatopoetic.)
1. n.
early bird.
corpse on the street
Some
old eagle-eye
saw me standing in the cold and called my wife who came down and let me in. The store detective is an eagle-eye and caught the kleptomaniac. 2. n. an eye or eyes with very keen vision. Keep your eagle-eye trained on the entrance.
My
eagle-eye
tells
me
there's trouble over there. n. someone with strong concerns about the environment and con-
servation, especially the preservation
(A play on eco freak.) The eagle freaks oppose building the dam. They call me an eagle freak, which doesn't bother me at all. of the eagle.
ear candy n. soft and pleasant popular music; music that is sweet to the ear. / find that kind of ear candy more annoying than heavy metal. People joke about it, but ear candy is restful. n.
a gossipy person.
sort
irful] 1. n. a tremendous amount [ of gossip. [J I got a big earful about
earful
The
a person
who
saw
early birds
and
up
who
There
arrived before
the tea things were laid. 3.
do with
The
arrives early.
were some early birds
the
called the cops.
early birds get the best seats.
mod. having
Early bird be given a free cup of coffee. The early bird special this week is a
to
early arrival.
arrivals will
of pop for the
free six-pack
first
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earp and urp [a^p] 1. in. to empty one's stomach; to vomit. (Onomatopoetic.) Somebody earped here! / wish people could urp silently. 2. n. vomit. There's earp on your shoe. Throw something over the urp in the flower bed.
Earp one
slop, bring the
has
phrase.)
mop. phr. "Some-
vomited." (Juvenile catch See what's in the hall? Earp
mop. Earp mop. Somebody was sick.
slop, bring the
the
earth to Sally
of an ear-duster, but she's all heart. / can be an ear-duster, I know, but have you heard about Sally and her you-know-what? is
gets
visitors.
eagle freak
ear-duster
2. n.
who
a person
/ never miss sunrise. I'm an
early.
actions: a floorwalker, a detective, a
hall-monitor.
Who's
/ think I gotta go earl! earling in the john?
watches or monitors other people's
across the street
Her
a scolding.
mother gave her an earful when she Tom got an earful finally got home.
early bird
eagle-eye
can give you an earful about
the mayor.
phr. "Hello
slop, bring
,
are you
(A means of getting the attention of someone who is ignoring you or who is daydreaming. As if one were on the earth, trying to contact someone in a spaceship. The implication is that listening?"
the person being addressed
Earth to
is
spacy.)
Mom! Earth to Mom! What's 117
easy
Earth to Fred! Are you asfor dinner? leep? Say something, Fred!
eat one's hat
I'll
easy mod. easy to please; flexible. Don't worry about me. I'm easy.
"Calm down."; "Reman, easy does it. Easy does it! Relax and go slow! 2. phr. "Be gentle."; "Handle with care." Easy does it. Go slow, and you won't dent anything. Easy does it. Two people can handle this heavy old thing if they go X.phr.
it.
Chill,
slow.
easy money n. money earned or gained with little or no difficulty. You know
where I can get some easy money?
you guys want easy money. Don want to work for it? easy street
n.
All 't
you
a place or position in
life
where living is easy. (See also fat city, on easy street.) Easy street is no place Easy street for an active guy like Sam. is exactly what I want out of life. 1. tr. [for something] to bother or worry someone. What's eating you, Bill? Nothing's eating me. Vm just the nervous type. 2. tr. to absorb the cost or expense of something. // was our mistake, and we'll have to eat it. We'll
eat
eat the costs
on
this one. It's the least
we
can do.
crow
tr.
especially
to display total humility,
when shown
to
eating crow if I'm not
eat face
tr.
shown
to be right.
(Compare
to kiss deeply.
to
suck face.) There were some kids eating face over in the corner. 77m and Karen were in the back seat eating face. eat nails
tr.
or angry.
and act Bruno looked
to look
to eat nails.
They were
by the time the
IRS got
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if
extra-
my
hat.
our advertisement
tr. to suffer from She has been eating her heart out over that jerk ever since he ran away with Tracy. Don't eat your heart out. You really didn like him that much, did you? 2. tr. to suffer from envy
1.
grief.
't
or jealousy. (Usually a
command.)
Yeah, this one's all mine. Eat your heart
Eat your heart out! I won
out!
it
fair
out.
really
tough
mad enough
all eating nails
the
eat something
up
1.
tr.
to
consume some-
thing rapidly, such as food or money.
household eats my inThe car really eats up gas. 2. tr. to believe something. Those people really eat that stuff up about tax reduction. CE They'll eat up almost anything you tell them. 3. tr. to appreciate something. The audience really ate it up. H The stuff about the federal budget went over well. They really ate up the whole story.
Running
come
up.
this
[T]
up in. to eat in enjoyment. (Usually a command.) Come on, now. Sit down Eat up! There's plenty and eat up! more where this came from.
eat
eco freak nat] n.
and eco nut [iko frik and iko someone with strong concerns
about the environment and conserva(Mildly derogatory.
tion.
From
ecol-
They call me an ecofreak, which It's we eco nuts who is okay by me. think about the future of our planet. ogy.)
eco nut See the previous entry.
be wrong.
Well, it looks like I was wrong, and Vm going to have to eat crow. Vll be
ened
hat
eat
I'll
and square.
easy mark n. a likely victim. Martin looks like an easy mark, but he's really quite savvy. Mary is an easy mark because she is so unsuspecting.
eat
do something
actually brings us a president.
borrow or lax."
my
eat
eat one's heart out
Fred's easy. He'll eat anything.
Easy does
to
tr.
If she wins,
ordinary.
mess
straight-
Ecstasy [ekstasi] n. a hallucinogen simChemicals ilar to L.S.D. (Drugs.) with names like "Ecstasy" are being put Ecstasy is on the streets every day. just
one of a dozen drugs with similar
formulas. n. drunkenness; the early stage of intoxication from alcohol or drugs.
edge
She was (See also have an edge on.) beginning to show a little edge, but she The edge obviously still could drive. was starting, so Kelly slowed down her drinking.
emoticon
edged mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. They set out to be edged by midnight. We were edged and full of rich food. We needed only to sleep.
mod. nervous; anxious and un-
edgy
I feel sort of edgy about the Don't I'm just an edgy guy.
certain. race. let
yourself get so edgy.
egg-beater l.n. an outboard boat motor.
My
egg-beater has been acting up, so
go out on the lake today. By the time you get about twenty egg-beaters on the lake at once, it's really pretty noisy.
I didn
2. n.
't
a helicopter. (See also rotorhead.)
The egg-beater landed on the hospital / would think that egg-beaters all roof. over the place would disturb the patients. egg-sucker
a flatterer; a sycophant.
n.
The guy
is
a chronic egg-sucker.
nore him. Who's the egg-sucker brought the teacher candy?
primo [(el) primo] mod. having to do with something that is top quality.
(el)
(From Spanish stuff
elbow-bending a
bit
a
lot
The guy
no
is
on another ego
another ego
trip.
Sorry, I guess
attention,
n.
n. effort.
G
elbow-grease. little
more
electrified
All
this
elbow-grease.
mod. alcohol intoxicated.
elevated
mod
alcohol intoxicated; tipsy.
was too elevated to drive home. Sam was elevated from the drinking
Jerry
did.
elevator music
n.
dull, uninteresting
elevators or shops. (As
trip.
an ego
tripper to be a
(There are a total of eighteen wheels on the cab and trailer.) An eighteen wheeler almost ran me off the road. The eighteen wheelers rule the road at night.
cheapo
el
[el
See
86.
the cheapest one.
don
(Mock
cheap one;
Spanish.)
/
't want one of those el cheapos. can only afford el cheapo. 2. mod. cheap. The el cheapo brand won't last. This is el cheapo. I don't want it. Is this the el cheapo model?
/
to
Mr. Big 1. mod. killed. When Max is wanted Max eliminated.
eliminated
no competition.
mod. alcohol intoxicated. By midHow can night, Walfy was eliminated. anybody get eliminated on four beers? 2.
[em]
n.
and emm an empty liquor Put your ems in the garbage, Whose emms
not on the floor.
are all
these?
embalmed mod.
alcohol intoxicated.
By morning they were all embalmed Bob was too embalmed to stand up.
embalming
tjipo] 1. n. the
to
to
bottle.
[eighty-six]
want
hear elevator music all day. Elevator music is better than listening to someone chewing food.
have
em a large trailer truck.
n.
't
palm-
presser.
eighteen wheeler
compared I don
exciting jazz or rock.)
eliminated, there will be
to be
mu-
of the type that can be heard in
sic
Pay
I'm on
ego tripper n. a person who habitually goes on an ego trip. Not another ego tripper running for public office! You
have
Put out a little job needs is a
Her eyes were staring straight ahead, and By midI knew she was electrified night we were all electrified.
he
a public expression of one's
n.
drinking liquor; drinkShe spends quite That's of time at elbow-bending. of elbow-bending for one sitting.
elbow-grease
who
feelings of importance or superiority.
This
ing liquor to excess.
't
ego trip
for "the first.")
/ want some more of
primo.
that el primo C.
Ig-
egghead n. an intellectual person. The eggheads aren exactly taking over the world. My uncle was an egghead, but nobody in our family thought he knew very much.
is
fluid
whiskey.
n.
strong liquor; raw
Jed seemed
cheap embalming fluid as
to favor
some
his poison.
pour out this embalming fluid and get me your best. Bartender,
emm
See em.
[emoticon] See the discussion at Smiley.
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empties
empties
empty
n.
Throw your Whose empties
bottles.
empties in the trash. are these,
and how many
are there?
eternity-box
my
have
/
stereo.
picked
When I'm
a coffin.
n.
eternity-box, then
you can have
my
eternity -box
in
my all
out.
empty-nesters n. parents'whose children have grown and moved out. There are a few adjustments that empty-nesters have to make. / don't mind being an empty -nester. There's more room.
euchre [ juka^] tr. to cheat or deceive someone. Those guys '11 try to euchre you, so watch out. / think the clerk euchred me.
end
even-Steven
n.
the final insult; too much; the
last straw.
This
is
just the end. I'm
When she poured her down my back, that was the end. leaving.
end of the
ball
game
n.
the
end of every-
the car broke down. I
Well,
thing.
drink
guess that's the end of the ball game. // looked like the end of the ball game as
we sped too fast around
the curve.
ends 1. n. money. (Streets.) You got enough ends to get you through the week? We don have enough ends to pay the gas bill. 2. n. shoes. You even got holes in your ends. Could you use some new ends? 't
enforcer
a bully; a thug or bodyguard.
n.
Bruno
is
the perfect enforcer.
Meaner
than all get out. Rocko is too tenderhearted to be a good enforcer.
enhanced
mod.
high
Max
(Drugs.)
Fred is
usual.
on
marijuana.
of enhanced, as enhanced by dinnertime is
sort
each day.
mod. evenly divided. two piles of diamonds even- Steven and then let me chose which one I wanted. The cake is not exactly cut even-Steven. 2. mod. even; balanced. Now we 're even-Steven. Now that we've given each other black eyes, are we 1.
He made
the
even-Steven?
evened out mod. back to normal; restorWhen things are evened ed to sanity. out after the holidays, we can settle down. Finally, at about age thirty, you could say that Sam was evened out. everything from soup to nuts n. everyIt looks like she thing imaginable. brought everything from soup to nuts. / have everything from soup to nuts in
my briefcase. evidence n. liquor. (Usually with the. Incorporated into a suggestion that the evidence be destroyed by drinking it.) There is only one thing to do with evidence like this, and that's drink it. They knocked back all the evidence very quickly.
equalizer
n.
a gun; a pistol. (Under-
Rocko carried an but wouldn't dream of using world.)
equalizer can
be dangerous
evil
equalizer,
An
it.
in
mod. excellent. (See also wicked.) Man, what is really evil!
This wine evil fronts!
Max's ex [eks]
business.
n.
My ex is erase
tr.
to
kill
someone.
Bruno had
a former spouse or lover. but we don 't talk much
in town,
Her ex remarried.
anymore.
orders to erase Max.
Mr. Big decided was gonna erase who.
who
some, erb See herb.
Ervine See
word
this
texts.) Irv.
Excellent!
eternal checkout n. death. (Usually with the.)
"Fine!" (Like aweexpression is a standard used frequently in slang con-
Excellent! exclam.
When
the time
comes for
the
Ihdpe lam ready to go. was around the corner, and he suddenly
Excuse
A new stereo? Way rad!
my
French.
See
Excellent!
Pardon
my
French.
eternal checkout,
Hank knew just
got religion.
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the eternal checkout
exec
[eg'zek] n.
The an executive. around here.
execs are well-treated
They are even firing the execs now.
eyewash
a real surprise.
Her
confession was a real eye-opener.
This
day has been an eye-opener for me.
2. n.
eye-opener
a
1. n.
wake-up drink of
drink any time.
liquor; a strong
He knocked back
a
quick eye-opener and finished dressing. One eye-opener led to another.
The two eyeballed and saw the figures. each other and walked on. eyeball to eyeball mod. face to face.
They approached each other eyeball
and frowned. when we are eyeball to
eyeball
Let's talk eyeball.
eyeful n. the sight of something that
something astonishing. The description of the theft was a real eye-popper. What an eye-popper of a story! 2. n. a very good-looking woman or girl. Isn't that foxy lady an eyepopper? / may not be an eye-popper,
eye-popper
but
1. n.
was not meant to
one
I got an eyeful
of that contract. Yikes! What a giveaway! She really gave us an eyeful. Shame.
eyewash 1. n. nonsense; deception. Aw, that's just a lot of eyewash! not eyewash!
my virtue is exemplary.
see.
to
more
It's
It's
true! 2. n. liquor.
How eyeball
tr.
to look
something.
hard
at
someone or
/ eyeballed the contract
about some of that nice eyewash? You 've been putting away a lot of that eyewash, haven't you?
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F V
wan wan] n. information; the about something or someone. (In the U.S., the telephone number of directory assistance or "information" is What's the 411 on the new guy 411.) in the front office? / heard some interesting 411 on the guy down the street.
411
['for
details
fab [faeb] mod. fabulous. a fab stereo! Your pad
not what I'd
n. an important person; a selfimportant person. (As with the royal
face card
characters in playing cards.)
Who's
the face card getting out of the benz? Mr. Big is the face card in the local mob.
fungus
['fes farjgas] n.
If John
beard.
whiskers; a
would shave off that
face fungus, he'd look a
What do you need
lot better.
n.
all that
fungus for
a good-looking
young man
with no personality. (Collegiate.) is
man and as dull as Norm is the perfect face
man— all looks and no brains. face-off ['fesDf] n. a confrontation.
(From
For a minute it looked like we were headed toward a nasty face-off. The face-off continued for a few moments till both of them realized that there was no point in fighting. face the music is
tr.
to receive the rebuke
You had better go music now. You have
due one.
and face the face the music eventually. faced
1.
is
122
to
2.
Lord,
is
he faced!
Who
on the corner who looks so mod. rejected by a member of
that guy
faced?
in
mod. alcohol intoxicated. (From
shit-faced.)
Where are
Can
I use
to state the facts; to tell
in.
That (someone) the truth. (Black.) Now is dude is not facking with me. the time to start facking. Where were you ? facts of life
1. n.
an explanation of human
reproduction, especially as presented No one ever explained the to a child. facts of life to me. I read books about it. She is so naive. She doesn't even
know
the facts of
better face
life.
2. n.
the truth
You had up to the facts of life and get They taught me everything in
life's
difficulties.
college except the facts of life. 1. in.
time has
to leave.
come for me
/ think that the to fade. Seeya.
to lose power; Ralph is fading and someone else will have to take over. The positive effect of the weekend faded fast.
Hey, man,
let's
fade. 2.
in.
to lose influence.
hockey.)
that
fack [faek]
fade
just a face
dishwater.
around here?
your facilities?
a job.
man
Harry
the facilities
about
anyway? face
facilities n. toilet facilities.
Man, what is
call fab. Just okay.
(face)
the opposite sex. (Collegiate.) I've Sally been faced again, and I hate it! was faced by Todd, and she won't speak to him or anybody else.
something ridicOh, stop your silly nothing but That's
fadoodle [fa'dudl] ulous; nonsense. fadoodle!
n.
fadoodle! fag [faeg]
1. n.
a cigarette.
Go
Hey, pal,
buy your own fags! n. a homosexual. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion. Usually derogatory. Resented by Who's the fag with homosexuals.) Don't act like a faggot, the fancy hat?
gimme a fag. 2. and faggot
fall
Gary. 3.
You
a repellent male.
n.
creepy fag. Stop
Bruno
it!
is
such a
fag!
(Potentially
sexuals.
only with discretion.)
Use
offensive.
Those bums get
some kind ofpleasure out offag-busting. What's this strange need you have for fag-busting? What 's your problem ? I'm really fagged out mod. exhausted. John, fagged out after all that running. you sure look fagged out.
a failing grade; a grade of F.
n.
(Compare a fail
if I
ever
saw
/ pulled a fail
one.
n. a promising young man; a young man who receives favoritism. Ted is the boss's fair-haired
fair-haired boy
boy now, but he'll be just like the rest of us in a month. He'd have been fired if he wasn't the fair-haired boy.
shake
n.
(From shak/ want to give you both All I want from you is a
a fair chance.
ing dice.)
a fair shake. fair shake.
(From fair-weather sailor.) / need something more than a fair-weather friend to help me through all this. Well, I see you are just a fair-weather golfer like me. homosexual. (Potentially offendiscretion. Derogatory. Resented by homosexuals.) / hear that you-know-who is a fairy. Who goes around calling people fairies?
fairy n. a
Use only with
and bedtime story n. a simand condescending explanation something; a lie. / don't want to
fairy tale plistic
for
hear a fairy
tale,
What you're
just the facts,
ma 'am.
me
like
telling
sounds
a
bedtime story. Come back when you can be more straightforward. fake book
fake
don
n.
a
know
't
/ can't fake
it.
do something).
the right notes, just
anymore.
it
I've
got to be honest with you.
fake off
to waste time; to
in.
goof off.
Hey, you guys, quit faking off! [J All you clowns do is fake off. Now, get busy!
fake someone out
to deceive
tr.
some-
They one, as with a football pass. faked me out, and then I stumbled over
had gone out
book with
basic
melody
and chord changes for hundreds of popular songs.
in the hall.
fakus ['fekas] n. a gadget; something with no name or a forgotten name. This little fakus goes right in here. Hand me that long fakus with the hole in
one end.
falderal
and
Somebody
lifted
my
folderol ['fald^al] n. wast-
/ had about ed effort; nonsense. enough of your falderal. Stop the
and get
folderol fall
be arrested; to be charged
to
1. in.
to work.
with a crime. (Underworld. See also
fall
Bruno fell. Is that Bruno would never fall easily.
/ heard that
guy.) right?
fair-weather mod. temporary; insincere.
sive.
to pretend (to
tr.
Sorry, this paper's
to pass.)
in stat.
fair
it
If you
my own feet. The coach was fuming. W We faked out the teacher who thought we
faggot See fag. fail
illegal.
doing violence to homo-
n.
/ thought fake books were
fake book.
fake
fag-busting
out of bed
Must be a frame. 2. n. one's arrest; being arrested and charged. (Underworld.) Who took the fall for the bank job? Rocko will never accept a fall willingly. guy n. a victim; a dupe. (Originally underworld.) Rocko wasn't going to / didn 't be the fall guy for this caper. want to be the fall guy, so I sat out the
fall
last job. fall
off the
wagon
in.
to
after having stopped.
off the
wagon
again.
resume drinking Poor Jed fell It
looks to
he wanted nothing more than off the wagon. like
fall
out
in.
to depart. (Probably
from
command meaning
"dis-
the military perse.")
me
to fail
It's late,
Let's fall out. I
G. I have to fall out.
have to get up early
in
the morning. fall
out of bed
the
drop
in
in.
to
fall
far
down, as with
some measurement. 123
falling-down
drunk
The temperature really fell out of bed was twenty-three below! The stock market fell out of bed last year
Fancy
that! exclam.
"Imagine that!"
last night! It
So, you're a bus driver now. Well, fancy
at this time.
pie
drunk
1.
toxicated; very drunk.
is
left in
that! There's a piece
of
the fridge.
fanigle See finagle.
mod. alcohol inPoor Fred is falling-down drunk and has no way to get home. She's not just tipsy; she's falling-down drunk. 2. n. a drunken person who falls down. Poor old Jed
falling-down
Fancy
that!
fanny
the buttocks. (Euphemistic in
n.
The term has taboo implicaHe fell down right
the U.S.
tions in the U.K.)
on
There's dust or some-
his fanny.
thing
on your fanny.
turning into a falling-down drunk.
One more
falling-down drunk in this
neighborhood falling-out
n.
will
not be anything new.
Tom
a disagreement.
had a little falling-out. patched up their little falling-out. and
from something.
The fallout meeting was not as
that they
another.
The
bump
on
into
one
Thirty-fourth
a real fanny-bumper. There was a typically dull fannythe village last night.
fanny-dipper
a swimmer, as opposed
n.
The fannygo out that
to a surfer. (California.)
far.
crisis itself,
let
It's not the but the fallout from the crisis that concerns us all.
fire
Street turned into
afternoon 's serious as some expected. this
an event that draws so
n.
many people
bumper in
fallout n. the results of something; the
from
fanny-bumper
They
Bill
flack
.
dippers are not supposed to
too windy for fanny-dippers,
It's
alone
surfers.
Fantabulous! exclam. "Great!" (A blend
someone or something; to cut a class; to blow someone or something off. You have to meet with
fan
tr.
to ignore
your teacher? Oh, fan that. It doesn't matter. Mary fanned her history class and missed an important test.
of fantastic and fabulous.) last. Fantabulous!
lous!
It's finished.
far gone
Wow,
fancy footwork artful
and
fast footwork
maneuvering;
thinking.
Ken did a
any
1.
mod.
in
He
sense. 2.
is
mod. alcohol intoxicated.
and looking
You want is realty far out! some far out heavy metal? 2.
This jazz
fast
to hear
lot
mod. very hard to understand; arcane;
and clever offancy foot-
Fancy meeting you here. sent. "Just imagine meeting you here!"; "I am surprised to meet you here!" Well, hello, Tom. Fancy meeting you here! Fancy meeting you here, Bill. How have you
This stuff is too highly theoretical. / can 't follow your far far out for me. out line of reasoning. 3. mod. alcohol or
been?
How'd you get so Three beers and Wally was
drug intoxicated. far out?
really far out.
fart
[fort]
senses.
(Potentially offensive in
Use only with
everything fancy-schmancy. togethers.
124
these
/ don't
fancy-schmancy
get-
all
discretion. Less
offensive in the U.K.,
fancy-schmancy [Taentsi'jmaentsi] mod. fancy; very fancy. This one is just too fancy-schmancy for Heidi She likes for
sick.
she ever far gone!
far out l.mod. cool; great; extraordinary.
n.
work to get out of that one. Fast footwork is the key to success in politics.
care
state.
is
Larry's far gone
Wow,
an extreme
far gone. Listen to her was too far gone to make
that chick
rave.
fan the breeze tr. to chat or gossip. We're just fanning the breeze, so you didn 't interrupt anything. Stop fanning the breeze and get to work.
You're
Fantabu-
here at
and
it
is
now
used more openly in the U.S.) 1. n. & please of intestinal gas, perhaps with Who is Did I hear a fart? a noise. responsible for that fart? 2. intestinal gas,
Who
farted?
in.
to release
perhaps with a noise.
Somebody
farted. 3. n.
feeb
an obnoxious or a stupid person. (Also a provocative term of address.) Who's the old fart with the enormous
Who called me an old fart?
mustache? fart
sack
a sleeping bag; a bed. (Po-
n.
Use only with
tentially offensive.
cretion.)
Well,
time I was getting
it's
Get out of that
into the old fart sack. fart sack
dis-
fathead n. a stupid person; someone who has fat where brains ought to be. Paul, You can be such a fathead! you are being a perfect fathead.
Now that is fatheaded mod. stupid. It's not fatreally a fatheaded idea. headed! Let's not come up with a fatheaded plan. This one has to make sense.
and get up and get going! fatso
farts n. "fine arts."
Ted
fart.)
is
studying over in the farts
Fred took a course
department.
and hated
farts
(Use discretion with in
it.
't
through the door!
fast
buck See quick buck.
fast
footwork See fancy footwork.
fast
one
fatty n. a derogatory
nickname for a
fat
person. (Cruel. Also a rude term of ad-
Okay,
dress.)
and devious
a clever
n.
a fat person. (Cruel.
faetso] n.
[
Hey, Also a rude term of address.) Some fatso tried fatso! Go on a diet! to get on the plane and couldn even get
trick.
(See also pull a fast one.) That was a fast one. I didn 't know you were so This was the last fast one like that you'll ever pull on me.
fatty,
you get
the biggest
piece of cake because you deserve it. That fatty over there is going to eat up
all
the snacks.
devious.
mod.
fat 1.
The fire-
great; excellent.
works in the park were
Mary thought
really fat this year!
the rally
was fat, but left
mod. well supplied with something; having an overabundance of something. When it comes to printer paper, this place is fat. We're fat with paper, but there's not a ribbon in early anyway. 2.
sight.
3.
sister!
mod. sexy. She is one fat You are truly fat, Wendy.
fat-cat 1. n.
someone with
great wealth
and the accompanying success. / like to watch the fat-cats go by in their beemers. I'm no fat -cat. I'm usually financially embarrassed in fact. 2. mod. having to do with wealth or a wealthy person.
You'll never see
any of those fat-cat
bank account. fat
chance
Me, get an
A? Fat chance.
easy
wealth and com-
She's living in fat city ever since she inherited her fortune. / could settle down in fat city without
any
street.
trouble. 2. n. fatness (expressed as
a place).
going on a
way
fattygews
I've diet.
to fat city.
had
it
with fat city. I'm is well on her
Sally
slip
I'll
into
and be right with you.
some Whose
fattygews are piled here in the corner?
feather brain
n. a stupid person. (Also a Gary is such rude term of address.) Hey, feather brain. a feather brain. Wake up and get busy!
fed
1.
and
the feds
n.
a federal agent
concerned with narcotics, tax collection, customs, etc. Some fed was prowling around asking questions about you. The feds are onto Rocko and his gang. 2. n. the Federal Reserve Board. (Usually Fed. Always with the.) The
Fed
is
not
likely to raise interest rates
There is no way soon again. predict what the Fed is going to do. very
federal diploma / could use a
a very poor chance. (SarFat chance I'll ever get a new
fat city 1. n. a state of fort;
faetigjuz] n. fatigues. (Origi-
[
nally military.)
to
/ just have a
No fat-cat investments.
n.
castic.) car.
cars.
me
driving
fattygews
n.
few
a U.S. extra
bank note.
of those federal
How many mas you got with you ? diplomas.
federal diplo-
federal jug n. a federal prison. (Under-
world. See also jug.) Rocko was set to spend the next twenty years in the federal jug. just out
feeb
Lefty
is
fresh
and sweet-
of the federal jug.
[fib]
n.
an oaf; a stupid person.
(From feebleminded.) Don't be a You are such a feeb! feeb. Wake up! 125
feebee
feebee See the following entry. feeby
and
feebee [Tibi]
n.
the F.B.I., the
Federal Bureau of Investigation. The locals were going to call in the feebies, but the D.A. said to wait. The feeby
on
is in
this already.
tr. to put food in one's mouth; to eat (something). You're always feeding your face. You 're going to get fat. Stop feeding your face and
feed one's face
listen to
feel
me.
a draft
to sense that
tr.
rejected; to sense that
one
being
is
someone
is
cool
toward one, possibly for racial reasons. Oh, man, I feel a draft in here. Let's
What a
leave.
reception! I sure feel a
draft.
fenced mod. angry. (California.) Boy, was that old man fenced! Too many people around here are fenced all the time.
fender-bender [ fend^bEnda1 ] 1. n. aminor accident. (Compare to rear-ender.) v There are a couple offender-benders on the expressway this morning, so be A minor fender-bender blockcareful. ed traffic for a while. 2. n. a reckless driver (who causes minor accidents). / can 'tget insurance on my seventeen-yearold,
who
Don
't
fer
shur
1. in.
good and day, and I
to feel really
a beautiful
It's
Everybody
really feel groovy.
groovy and smiling and all. 2. alcohol or drug intoxicated.
is
feeling
in.
be Looks to
groovy on gin again. Bruno feeis groovy because of what he is smoking. like Kelly is feeling
no pain
feeling
mod.
1.
numbed by
alcohol and feeling nothing; alcohol
She fell off the wagon He drank the feeling no pain.
intoxicated.
and
is
whole thing and he's feeling no pain. 2. mod. feeling nothing; dead. Now, poor Jed is feeling no pain. Your aunt is feeling no pain now. She slipped away before dawn. feep
[fip]
1.
n.
computer. feep when I
What does
the beep
try to
run
the feep
when
it's
It just feeps to
a
makes a
my program.
mean?
computer] to make a feeps
made by
This thing only
little
2. in.
[for a
beep.
angry, I think.
It
Naw!
get your attention.
[
fence hanger
n.
someone who cannot de-
cide which side to be on.
We need to
find a way to persuade the fence hangers to come over to our side. The senator
he would be a fence hanger the very minute of the vote.
stated
126
phr. "for sure
Used
(Eye-dialect.
";
"abso-
in writing
only for effect. See also for sure.) is
way
rad, fer shur.
I'll
be
there.
Fer shur!
feshnushkied
Wow,
shnushkied!
Gert
up
is
that guy ever fe-
too feshnushkied
empty one's stomach; to was going Somebody fetched up in
to
in.
vomit.
/ really felt like I
to fetch up.
and didn
here
is
home.
to drive
fetch
mod. alcohol
[fe'Jnujlrid]
intoxicated.
't
clean
it
up.
fib [fib] 1. n. a small lie. little fib.
I'm
sorry.
was just a another one a small lie. //
Is this
of your fibs? 2. in. to tell Stop fibbing and tell me the
you fib
truth.
Did
to the teacher?
fibber ['fib*]
n.
a
liar.
Harry can be a
fibber sometimes. You got to watch him. Jimmy is turning into a little fibber.
FIFO.
phr. "first in, first out," the first items placed in the stack are the first items to be retrieved. (Computers. Ac-
ronym. See also
GIGO, LIFO.)
course the wrong thing
came
out.
Of That
FIFO. Oh, I thought this was FIFO, and I put the stuff in wrong order.
register is
feb] n. a fellow; a guy. (Also a term of address.) Who's the fella with the dark glasses? Hey, fella. Got a match?
fella
up on young fender-benders.
[fa1
lutely."
This
groovy mellow.
feel
a hopeless fender-bender.
is
give
until
thing the fifth
wheel
person.
n.
an extra and unneeded
/ feel like such a fifth wheel Hank is just a fifth here.
around wheel. Send him home. file
See
file
thirteen
(pro)file. n.
the wastebasket. (See Please throw this in
also circular file.)
fire
I don't need it anymore. I'm afraid that the papers you want went into file thirteen two days ago.
file thirteen.
fill-mill
She stopped off She
a tavern.
n.
fine
and dandy mod.
a line
nice; good; well.
(Often sarcastic.)
Well,
that's just
and dandy. Couldn be better. feel fine and dandy, and I'm going have a good time here. fine
't
/ to
at the fill-mill again this evening.
spends a fill
or
lot
kill
of time at that fill-mill.
finger
and F.O.K.
phr. a broker's
notation advising the stock exchange
a stock order or kill it. (The abbreviation is an initialism. Securities to
fill
markets.) or kill,
fill
Get rid of this order. It was it should have been killed Where? I don't see that it's
and
yesterday.
marked F.O.K filling station n.
name
an old
a liquor store.
(From
for an automobile service
Please stop at the filling
station.)
get some suds on your way The filling station on the corner does a big business on Fridays.
and
station
home.
filthy lucre
[.
.
.
1.
luka^] n.
money.
I sure
point
to
tr.
someone
to identify
someone
(as having
something, been somewhere,
out;
done
etc.).
Pete fingered Marty as being the one
Nobody would dare Rocko as the one who did it. 2. n. someone who identifies criminals for
who
arrived first.
finger
the police; a police informer. (Under-
Tracy has become a finger
world.)
Yup, she turned finger for the cops. after her last vacation. 3. n. an amount of liquor poured into a glass equal to Tracy said she the width of a finger. only drank one finger, but the glass
You 've had enough.
you, chum.
finger
wave
was
No fingers for
five inches in diameter!
n.
the act of giving
someone
/ of that filthy lucre. don't want to touch any of your filthy
the finger; displaying the middle finger
lucre.
ture
could use a
little
upright as a sign of derision. (The gesis
taboo. See also give
Two
the finger.)
mod. very wealthy. / wouldn 't mind being filthy rich. There
filthy rich 1.
many filthy
rich people now. because of the money his uncle left him. 2. n. people who are very wealthy. The filthy rich can afford that kind of thing, but I can't.
are too
Ken
and
finn
[fin] n.
a five-dollar
bill.
(Germanic via Yiddish.) Who says I owe you a fin? D I gave the old guy a finn, and he nearly passed out. finagle 1. in.
someone
kids gave the
The salute turned cop the finger wave. into a finger wave when the Major turned away.
filthy rich
is
/ sort offeel sorry for the filthy rich. fin
little
and
fanigle [fi'neg)
to plot
and plan;
and
1. n.
(From
You
strange or undesirable person. are being such a fink. Stop is a strange kind of fink.
it!
Martin
in. to inform on someYou won't fink on me, will ya? Rocko never finks on his friends.
one.
to conspire; to ar-
embarrassed mod. broke. embarrassed at the moment. Gary found himself finan-
financially
I'm a
bit financially
cially
embarrassed when the time came bill.
geon).
fink (on someone) fa'nigj]
range (something). He's pretty good at finagling. She'd rather fanigle than ask outright. 2. tr. to acquire something through conniving. She spent a lot of time trying to finagle a ride to work. Can I fanigle a buck from you ?
to pay the
an informer; a stool (piPinkerton. See also rat Tracy has turned into a fink. fink.) Mr. Big doesn 't think much of finks. 2. See fink (on someone). 3. n. any
fink [fink]
fink out (on
someone or something) in. some-
to decide not to cooperate with
one or something
(after
on, don't fink out
on us now.
all).
Come Bob
finked out on the plan. finn See fire
fin.
a line
(Drugs.)
tr.
to snort a line of cocaine.
Max
left
to fire a line.
Rocko has never fired a
line in his
life.
127
fire
away
fire
away
in.
to start asking questions; to
Okay, I'm ready. Fire The cops fired away at him for
start talking.
away.
an hour.
someone or something up 1. tr. [with to motivate someone; to make someone enthusiastic. See if you can fire John up and get him to paint the house. HI I have to fire up the electorate if I want them to vote for me. (More someone]
at fired up.) 2.
[with something]
tr.
to
start
something such as an engine; to
light
something.
Fire this thing up,
and let's get going. WAndy fired up the snow blower and started to clear a path. up
to light a marijuana cigarette.
in.
Max
up at every chance.
fires
Rocko says he never fired up fireball
See
ball
in his
life.
of fire.
up mod. excited; enthusiastic. How can you be so fired up at this time
firewater
n.
It's
impossible to get
(From cowboy and
fireworks
fireworks are over,
What 're
around here?
When
excitement.
1. n.
come
in
and
the
we'll
about trouble; a display of
all the fireworks
2. n.
After Bruno 's fireworks, we calmed down a little. Cut out the fire-
temper.
works, Sally.
Calm down and
get
back
to work.
with the mostest mod. the earin the largest numbers; the earliest with more of what's needed. (Always with the.) Pete got the prize for being the firstest with the mostest. / always like to be there early— the firstest
firstest
and
with the mostest.
atory.)
Don
be such a fish, Martin. Anyone can work a can opener. right..
&
in.
to kiss
lips.
like
an
(someone)
(Collegiate.) expert,
which
is
being an expert at nothing. He fish-kissed me,, then ran back to his car. 2. n. a kiss made with puckered up lips. (Collegiate.)
and
night,
I
One more
fish-kiss to-
am going to scream.
The
actor planted a big fish-kiss right on her lips
and frightened her.
Fish or cut bait. sent. "Do something or Fish or cut bait, get out of the way." Chuck. There's work to be done here. Decide whether you're going to watch or help. Fish or cut bait. fish story
and fish
tale n. a great big
lie.
who
exaggerates the size of the fish that got away.) That's just a fish story. Tell me another! He's a master at the fish tale. Maybe he should be a politician.
See the previous entry.
expedition n. an exploratory search for facts. (This involves asking questions with no preconceived notion
fishing
of what the answers might reveal.) The lawyer was on a fishing expedition.
There was no real wrong committed to Your honor, counsel a lawsuit.
justify is
just
on a clumsy fishing
expedition. I
move for dismissal. fishtail in. [for the rear of a car] to
whip
back and forth like a fish moving its The caddy fishtailed on the curb tail. It's easy to and almost spun around. fishtail in
wet weather.
mod. dubious; questionable; likely be improper or illegal. (See also Something here is fishy. smell fishy.) That was a pretty fishy story you told
fishy to
't
five-finger discount n. the acquisition of
something by shoplifting. ring Tracy wanted.
between females.
There's a fish-fight over by the biology
Bruno used
his five-finger discount to get the
with fish-fight n. a fight
128
tr.
us.
and inept person. (DerogThe guy's a fish. He can't do
fish n. a stupid
anything
can get
like
fish tale
whiskey.
firewater!
liest
I.
He can fish-kiss
all.
Indian talk.) This firewater leaves a lot to be desired. This isn't gin; it's
talk.
fish-kiss
(Like the fisherman
fired
of the morning? Martin fired up at
fish-fights
brutal.
with puckered up
fire
fire
Those
building.
five
it
my five-finger discount. See take the
fifth.
kind of
/ got this thingy
flak
fiver ['faiva1 ] n.
also tenner.)
a five-dollar bill. (See This thing only cost me
Give him a a fiver. outa here. fix 1.
and
fix-up
let's
get
especially for an addict It
who
in
is
need
fixes the suffering
was clear that the prisoner needed a fix, but there was nothMax ing the cops would do for him. arranged to get a fix-up into the con. 2. in. to buy a dose of drugs; to take drugs. (Drugs.) Max had to fix before he could even talk to me. Tracy was in
(More
at fixed.) 3.
an animal, especially a pet. (Jocularly of people.) Get somebody to fix your cat! Sally suggested that someone ought to fix Beavis—if he isn't already. (More at fixed.) 4. n. a bribe. Rocko never took a fix in his life. The agent payed a fix to castrate or spay
to the cops.
(More at fixed.) 5. tr. to outcome of a contest or
influence the
Who fixed
an election.
this
race?
Bruno knows what it takes to fix an election— cash. (More at fixed.) 6. n. a scheme to influence the outcome of a contest or an election. Something is wrong with this game. I smell a fix. Bruno planned a great fix, but the cops got wise. 7. n. a repair made to a computer program. (Computers.) This little fix should make the whole program run faster. / wrote a fix to make the
program more
8. n. a "cure" (See also quick fix.) There is no easy fix for a problem like this. Some people think there is no fix
for a social
at
fixed
she seems even buy anything but
't
up mod. provided with a
date.
Okay, Sam got fixed up with Martha. Sam is fixed up with ft date for Saturday. fixer n. a lawyer.
get
I'll
my fixer on
first
thing in the morning.
fixer
didn 't show up in court.
fizzle
a failure; something
1. n.
['fizl]
that sputters away.
was a
fizzle. 2. in.
to
whole plan
fizzled,
fail;
first
and we had
The play began
over.
second
The whole project play was no The to peter out.
Her
fizzle.
it
Bruno's
to start
to fizzle in the
act.
flabbergasted ['flasba^gaestad] 1. mod. We were flabbersurprised; baffled.
They all sat mod. alcohol intoxicated. / thought you were cutting down, and here you are totally flabbergasted again. After about six beers, Harry became flabbergasted and slid under the table. gasted by your proposal. there flabbergasted. 2.
flack See flak. flack (out) to
go to
in.
to collapse in exhaustion;
/ just have to go
sleep.
now and flack
home
Betsy flacked out
out.
at nine every night.
flackery
[
flaeka^i]
/i.
an advertising agen-
Ted works for a flackery over on Maple Street. // seems like the whole political campaign was directed by some New York flackery. cy.
Pat I'm afraid I flagged algebra. 2. n. the grade of F. I'll get a flag on algebra for the semester.
flag [flaeg] 1.
tr.
to fail a course.
flagged English again.
all.
fix-up
is
efficient.
ill.
/
an already-fixed dog.
It
the other room fixing. tr.
is fixed,
wouldn
fixed
a dose of a drug,
n.
of drugs. (Drugs. of withdrawal.)
and
fiver,
that the cat
meaner.
See the previous entry. 1.
mod. doped; intoxicated.
comfortable
now that he's fixed.
Max He
was fixed and broke— in a real mess, mod. bribed. Don't worry, the night watchman is fixed. The cop is fixed and won't give you guys any trouble. 3. mod. having the outcome
I'd say. 2.
pre-arranged. (Said of a contest, race, or election.) The election was fixed,
and we are going to protest. // was not fixed! The race was fixed, but we won anyway. 4. mod. neutered. Now
/ got three flags
and an A.
3.
tr.
someone.
The cop flagged Tracy for soliciting. They flagged Bob for speeding even though he was a judge. to arrest
(More
at flagged.)
flagged [flaegd] mod. arrested.
Max
almost got himself flagged for speeding. Sally was flagged, and she called her fixer to come get her out. flak
and
flack [flaek]
1. n.
complaints;
criticism; negative feedback.
Why do 129
flake
/ have to get all the flak for
We're getting a
news broadcast.
Who
is
what you did? of flack for that
lot
2. n. publicity;
going to believe
hype.
about
this flack
being first-rate? It's all flak and no substance. 3. n. a public relations agent
The flak made an an-
or officer.
nouncement and then disappeared. There were flacks lies
all
over the place telling
and making false promises.
flake [flek]
or giddy.
Who
's
who
a person
1. n.
the flake in
is
medicinal form of crystallized cocaine. (Drugs. Similar to crack.) Where can I get some flake around here? Max specializes in flake. 3.
[for the police]
tr.
to place drugs or traces of drugs
on a
person during an arrest. (Underworld. The person is then charged with possession of drugs.) That's not mine! You flaked me! The fuzz must have flaked Rocko. He never touches the
and
4.
stuff.
flakes n.
phencyclidine
Even Max won't sell flake, and he's not what I would call a concerned citizen. Sometimes they smoke a cigarette with flakes on it. flake
down
go
go
to
at the time. I gotta
go
to
in.
Look
sleep.
to bed; to
home and flake down. After I flake down for about three days, I'll tell you about
flakes Sec flake.
flako See the following entry. flaky ['fleki]
1.
mod. habituated to the use of
out. I
after
fall
had had
ally flake
it.
from ex-
/ just flaked
asleep.
After jogging, I usu-
for a while. 2.
to
in,
fall
asleep
An
drug use. (Drugs.)
hour
after she took the stuff, she just flaked.
Pete popped a few pills (flake)
and flaked out.
spoon See cokespoon.
flaky.
Look at
me your keys. and
Man,
flaked mod.
she flaked passed out
is
because of drugs. (Drugs.) flaked out on the sofa. stuff
and ended up
Sally
was
Jerry took the
flaked.
3.
mod.
unconscious; exhausted; tired out.
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looks a
and nose.
little
Max
is flaky. He's a walking advertisement for what he sells. 3. and flako ['fleko] mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man, is she
Paul was flaky and couldn't
flako! drive.
flamdoodle See flapdoodle. flame in. to write an excited and angry note on a computer bulletin board. Barb is flaming again. It doesn't take much to set her off. Stop flaming a minute and try to explain your position
flame-war n. an angry and excited exchange of notes on a computer bulletin board. A flame-war erupted on the board last night and a lot of people said The SYSOP some pretty rude things. tried to stop the flame-war, but it kept going anyway. flamer
1. n.
a blatantly obvious
homo-
He tries not to
Todd is such a flamer! be a flamer, but what can
he do? 2. n. a person who writes excited and angry notes on a computer bulletin There are too many flamers board. on this board to make it interesting and entertaining. The flamers turn everything into a screaming battle.
minor scandal.
I'm sorry about that flap we had yesterday, but it was all your fault.
flaked out 1. mod. alcohol intoxicated. You are too flaked out to drive home.
Give
his eyes
flap n. an argument; a
flaked See the following entry.
out! 2.
He
cocaine. (Drugs.)
for males.)
to pass out
1. in.
haustion; to
She's
sexual person. (Primarily and originally
my trip.
flake (out)
mod. unreliable.
too flaky to hold the job. He's a flaky dude. I'm getting so flaky. Must be old
calmly.
an animal tranquilizer.
(P.C.P.),
He's upstairs flaked out from There are too many flaked out people working at dangerous machines.
age. 2.
acts silly
such a flake! the plaid pants? 2. n. a
Salty
Tom?
work.
Who started this flap anyway? flapdoodle and flamdoodle [flaepdudj I've and flaemdudj] n. nonsense.
heard enough of this flapdoodle. out the flamdoodle and speak the flapjaw son.
[
fla3pd3D]
1. n.
Cut truth.
a talkative per-
Who is the flapjaw who has Sally
fleece
Martin
cornered?
is
anything but a
flapjaw. I bet he doesn't say a dozen words per hour. 2. n. chatter; gossip.
Too much flapjaw for me Could you all
in here.
flapjaw a flash
to concentrate
down
turn
the
little?
n.
1.
[flaej]
remembered;
something suddenly something suddenly
thought of. / had a flash and quickly it down. After we talked a while, a flash hit me. Why don't we sell the house? 2. n. a very short period of time; an instant. (See also in a flash.) I'll It was just a flash be there in a flash. between the time I said I'd be there wrote
and when I showed something flash a
won't have
like that
long.
it
and made
her badge
tr.
to display
You'd better not around here. You The cop flashed the pinch. 4.
on one's ass 1. mod. completely exhausted. (Potentially offensive. Use I'm just flat on only with discretion.)
flat
my ass. I need some rest. After the day of the marathon, Pete was flat on his ass for a week. 2. mod. broke; financially destroyed. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion. An elaboration of Sorry, I can't help you. flat broke.)
I'm broke—flat on
on
flat
his ass.
my ass.
Can you
The guy's help
him out
with a loan?
She was flat out 1. mod. totally. We were all flat out out mad as hell. They disgusted. 2. mod. at top speed. drove the thing flat out for an hour. If
we run
flat out,
we can
get there before
in.
to display one's private parts briefly.
(Use caution with the topic.) The guy flashed and moved on down the street. She flashed briefly, providing the show that people came to see, and left the stage. 5. n. a drink of liquor. I'll have just a flash; then I've got to run. Here, have a flash, and let's chat a longer.
little
electricity bill
flat
up. 3.
briefly.
wad
will find a way to pay your or you will live in the dark.
dusk. flatfoot
and flatty
['flaetfut
and
flaeti]
ai.
a police officer, especially a foot patrol officer. Think about how the flatfoot on the beat is affected by this cold. The flatty stopped at the door, tried the lock,
and moved on.
flat head
n.
a stupid person.
Carl,
don act like such a flathead. He may seem slow, but Carl is no flathead. 't
on something in. to remember something suddenly and vividly. Then I flashed on a great idea. / was trying to flash on it, but I couldn 't bring
flash
it
to
mind.
hash
flash the
tr.
ach; to vomit.
out
and flash
to empty one's stomDave left quickly to go
the hash, I think.
in there flashing the
Who's
hash?
flashback n. a memory of the past; a portrayal of the past in a story. Suddenly, Fred had a wonderful flashback to his childhood. The next scene in the film was a flashback to the time of Ivan the Terrible.
flasher
n.
man who
exhibits his gen-
The cops caught the flasher and took him away. Sarah said she thought she saw a flasher in the library. broke mod. having no money at all. Sorry, I'm flat broke. Not a cent on me. You may be flat broke, but you
(From the
flatline in. to die.
the line
on an
EEG
flatness of
monitor.)
It
appeared that the patient flatlined during the night. She just grabbed at her chest
and flatlined. flatten
tr.
a blow.
to
knock someone down with
Max flattened
jab to the nose. opponent. flatty
a
itals.
flat
flatheaded mod. stupid. That is really Martin a flatheaded idea, you know? seems flatheaded, but he 's quite brilliant.
See
Wilbur
the kid with a will flatten his
flatfoot.
cheap hotel; a flop house. / won 't stay in this fleabag for one minute. Rocko never stays in fleabags. He 's too proud. Bruno doesn 7 care.
flea bay
[flibaeg] n. a
tr. to cheat someone; to steal everything from someone. (Underworld.) Bruno fleeced the kids for a
fleece
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flesh-presser
lot
Rocko never
of money.
Didn
tried to
fleece anybody.
flesh-presser
and palm-presser
n.
that time
It's
flexed out of shape
out of shape. tely
mod. very angry; bent The boss was comple-
flexed out of shape.
/
am
flick
[flik]
good flick, right? new Woody Allen flick.
Let's
go see
Beware of the flimflam they will try to / can spot flimflam a mile
pull on you.
&
tr.
in.
(someone). I wasn't
She
is
to cheat or deceive
Don't
bom
try to flimflam
yesterday,
me.
you know.
flimflamming over at the Adams-
ville fair this
week.
flimflam
fling
up
in.
at
Pretty soon,
all.
how to spot a flimflam to
artist.
empty one's stomach;
to
Who flung up on the sidewalk? The
fling-wing n. a helicopter.
fling-
that noise.
much
go
crazy.
Wow,
I've got
may just flip.
He was
so
The guy
the nervous type.
flip-flop 1. n. a reversal.
The President
denied making a flip-flop. He said he simply forgot his earlier position. The manager did a flip-flop on the personnel policy. 2. n. the return trip of a long journey. (Citizens band radio. See also flip side.) Nice talking to you, Silver Streak. Catch you on the flip-flop.
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in.
go
crazy; to lose con-
/
to lose control of oneself.
I almost flipped out
heard about
when
I
He got so mad that he
it.
flipped.
"other" side of a phonograph record. On the flip side, we have another version of "Love Me Give a Tender" sung by Beverly Mills.
flip side 1. n. the
sometime. 2. n. the "other" side of something, such as an argument. / want to hear the flip side of this before I make a judgement. On the flip side, he is no bargain either. listen to the flip side
the return trip of a long journey.
band radio.) Seeya. Catch Didn I you on the flip side, maybe. talk to you on the flip side last week? (Citizens
't
someone off and flip someone out to give someone the finger. (ColleErnie giate.) Did you flip me off? flipped Tom out, and Tom flattened
flip
Ah,
life
in the big city.
flip
someone out See the previous entry.
flip
someone the bird
tr.
to give
someone
the finger; to display the digitus impudi-
cus to someone. the
to do, I
flipped.
flip (out)
Ernie.
wing from the radio station is hovering over the traffic jam. There must be a dozen fling-wings up there making all
flip in. to
to
tr.
Tom nearly flipped his wig. flipped my wig when I got the news.
tr.
/ was afraid I was going to fling
vomit. up.
/ don't trust that
else.
artist
you'll learn
one's wig
3. n.
flimflam artist n. someone who practices confidence tricks or deceptions
on someone
know what I
want.
Wow,
flimflam [flimfiaem] 1. n. a confidence trick or deception. The whole business sounds like a bit of flimflam to me. The crooks pulled a nasty flimflam on Betsy. 2. n. nonsense; deception.
away. 3.
just flip-flop all you want. I
flip
That was a
pretty
that
I'm
sorry I'm flip-flopping on this matter. I just can't seem to decide. Well, you
trol.
a movie.
n.
week?
intensity.
to waiver in one's decisions.
in. v
truly
flexed out of shape.
the flip-flop last
change direction or
He flip-flopped again, leaving us quite confused. Jed flip-flopped twice in the evening, leaving us where we started. 4.
a po-
of the year when the flesh-pressers really go to work. A palm-presser came to our door to ask us what we thought about his issues. litician.
we chat on
't
3. in. to
bird— and
thing to do.
that
The
Max flipped the cop was just the wrong little
kid flipped the
cop the bird and didn't even know what it
meant.
flipping
mod. damnable. (Euphemistic Get this flipping dog out
for fucking.)
of here!
What's the flipping idea?
an old car. (Once a nickname for the Model-T Ford.) Whose flivver is that parked out in the / got an old flivver to get to street? school and back.
flivver [flrv^] n.
"
fly
FLK
ef el ke] n. "funny looking kid."
[
A strange
looking child, especially one being treated for social or The therapist physical problems.) When the had two FLKs in a row. (Initialism.
mother came
in with
an
FLK
in tow,
Now
don flub up anything.
this up.
't
ffl
/ never flub
dub [ flab 6a dab] tr. to fail to Martin is flubbing do the right thing. the dub with the fund-raising campaign. Please don flub the dub this time.
flub the
't
Jane knew her afternoon would be busy.
flub (up) flog [flag]
tr.
to
promote something; to
try to sell something aggressively. Fred was flogging this car so hard, I figured he was trying to get rid of it. Don't flog it so hard. It makes people
1.
and
flub-up
n.
/ tried not to
blunder.
Who
but I did.
is
an error; a
make a
flub,
responsible for this
2. in. to mess up; to foul up. You are flubbing up again, aren't you? \3Idomy best to keep from flubbing.
flub-up?
suspicious.
flooey
[flui]
mod. alcohol intoxicated.
You 're flooey again. That's every night Wow, is she flooey! week.
this
floored
mod. surprised.
1.
/ was really
had to say. You looked floored when I came in. Wasn
floored by what she
't
I invited? 2.
by a blow. opponent. didn't
mod. knocked to the floor Wilbur was floored by his The guy was floored and
move a muscle— ever
mod. alcohol intoxicated. floored.
Can
You 'd be dozen
't
again.
He's
3.
totally
see a hole in a ladder.
floored, too, if you 'd
drunk a
beers.
floozie ['fluzi] n. a
promiscuous woman.
Tracy was enraged when Rocko called her a floozie. zie,
flop
"I didn't call you a floo-
flub-up See the previous entry.
nonsense; irrelevant stuff; a lot offluff. Nothing Cut out the fluff and substantial at all.
fluff [flaf] 1. n.
hype.
What do you mean
a failure.
a flop? The play was a flop. The entire audience left during the second act. 2. n. a place to sleep for the night; a bed in a flop house. (Streets.) The old man was looking for a flop Do you know where I for the night. can find a flop?
your
life is
house n. a very cheap hotel offering only rows of beds. This place is a flop house! I won't stay here for a moment.
flop
All
some of those guys need
in life is
a flop in a flop house. flopper-stopper
n.
Jimmy, does your stopper yet?
a brassiere. sister
Hey,
wear a flopper-
She's very shy. She won't
even hang her flopper-stoppers out on
is just
talk straight. 2.
to
tr.
& in.
do something
to
make an error; Todd
incorrectly.
same place
fluffs his lines in the
['flafstsfj n. snow. supposed to be an inch of
There
fluff-stuff
is
fluff-stuff
Fluff-stuff looks pretty, but
tonight. it's
every
Don't fluff again, please.
night.
no fun
to shovel
it.
flunk [ftagk] 1. tr. & in. to earn a failing I'm flunking in grade in a course. Wilbur is flunking everyEnglish lit. thing. 2.
to assign
tr.
Good
grade.
I'm
"said Rocko. "I said you were boozy. 1. n.
This
sorry,
flunk half the
someone
a failing
She flunked me! but I am going to have to grief!
class.
flunk out (of something) in. to leave school or a course because of failure. Fred flunked out of school and never tried to
go back.
flunked
That's
it.
All
F's. I've
out.
flush mod. wealthy; with plenty of
Today I
ey.
am flush. By
be broke.
I'll
but I can pay the flusher
n.
mon-
tomorrow,
I'm not exactly flush, bills.
a toilet. (Folksy.
Compared
to
/ hear they put in a
an outhouse.)
That's flusher over at the Babbits'. silly. They've always had a flusher.
mod. knowledgeable; alert and in This dude is fly; there's no question about it. We don need any more fly birds around here. 2. mod. nice-
fly 1.
the know.
't
the line to dry.
flub something incorrectly; to
up tr. to do something mess up a procedure.
/ like your fly shoes,
looking; stylish.
Sam.
This guy
is
really fly.
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fly-by-night
mod. undependable; disBruno seems like such a fly-
fly-by-night
honest.
folded mod. alcohol intoxicated. is
Man,
He's not fly-byDon't do business with
by-night character. night at
all.
kites
to distribute or pass
tr.
he folded!
is
folderol See falderal.
fly-by-night people. fly
Pete
folded. That's the third time this week.
bad
checks. (Underworld. See also kite.)
Marty was picked up for flying kites in three different cities. She got caught flying kites in Philadelphia.
folding
money and
folding stuff n. U.S.
paper bank notes, as opposed to coins. Sorry, I don have any folding money with me. Can you pick up the bill? / sure could use some more of that folding 't
stuff.
skip a meal or eating.
fly light in. to
Nothing for me, thanks. I'm flying light today, I fly light until about dinner-
d
time.
folks
one's parents. (Always with the
n.
possessive.)
the coop tr. to escape from somewhere; to get away. / was afraid he would fly the coop if I didn't tie him up. / flew the coop before my dad got home.
fly
fly
folding stuff See the previous entry.
trap
n.
You
trap.
Close your fly
the mouth.
much.
talk too
Don't talk
with your fly trap full.
flyboy
[
flyboys have
foam n. foam?
Those
flyboy in Korea.
at her.
fomp [famp]
around
sexually.
Who are those
two over
wanted
to fomp,
to play
in.
(Collegiate.)
fomping? and I wanted to there
foo-foo water
[
Jerry
get
How
about some more All the guy thinks about is
him out of my
fufuwada^]
Don
't
n.
sight.
aftershave
use so
much of
/ got three bottles
that foo-foo water.
offoo-foo water for my birthday. foodaholic
easy.
it
beer.
to ask my folks are sort of mad
have
I'll
Her folks
can go.
lotion; cologne.
flaiboi] n. a pilot. (Military.)
Rocko was a
if I
aholic
n.
Kelly is a food-
a glutton.
and has a
real eating problem.
What a foodaholic! She ate a whole large pizza!
foam.
mod. "Fresh off the boat"; as and trusting as a new immigrant. (Initialism. A play on the initials of "Free on Board.") That new guy is really F.O.B. What a wimp! Where did you get those F.O.B. shoes? Blue suede is back?
fooey See phooey.
F.O.B.
gullible
foot-in-mouth disease n. the tendency to say the wrong thing at the wrong time. / suffer a lot from foot-in-mouth disWell, Ralph has foot-in-mouth ease. disease again. it tr. to go somewhere by foot; to walk or run. (Compare to ankle, shank it.) / have to foot it over to the drugI'm used to store for some medicine.
foot
(even) a hazy idea. (Usually in the negative. Always with
foggiest (idea)
n.
Vm sorry I don
the.)
the foggiest.
idea of how to
/
don
do
this.
't
know. I haven 't have the foggiest
't
footing
it
wherever I go.
foozle ['fuzl]
F.O.K. See fold
1. in.
fill
to
or kill.
fail;
to close.
folded in the second week.
The play / was
drink,
neatly
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and then he folded. and slid beneath the
She folded table.
/i.
an error; a messed up
What
a stupid foozle! 2. tr. to mess something I'm afraid up; to bungle something. I'll
my
business would fold because of the recession. 2. in. to collapse from drinking. Dave had just one more afraid
1.
Who made this foozle?
task.
foozle the camera
Who (More
if I
open
it
up.
foozled the copying machine?
at foozlified.)
foozlified
This job
[
is
fuzhfaid]
I.
mod. bungled. Who was
really foozlified.
in
foul
charge?
never seen such a foozlilife! 2. mod. alcohol Why do you always come
I've
my
fied mess in intoxicated.
home foozlified?
Fred is foozlified and
can 't see his hand for all
I
know
in front
phr. "as far as
know"; "I I know, She came in all
for a lark. late because she had an accident, for I know. they just did
it
and
for the heck of it; mod. because it is slightly evil; for no good reason. (Use caution with hell.) The kids broke the window just for the devil of it. We just drove over for the heck of it.
for the devil of
it
for the hell of
it
I
For
know."
really don't
of him.
up
for the
heck of it See the previous entry.
for the hell of
it
See for the devil of it.
all
For the love of Mike!
See For Pete's
sake! for (all) one's trouble
phr. in spite of
payment
one's efforts; in very poor
for
He
got a punch in the jaw for all his trouble. For her trouble, one's efforts.
she got only honorable mention.
See for peanuts.
for chicken feed
for free
fruit for Jed.
mod. free from monetary charge;
And I get all this for free?
gratis.
all this really
Does
mean I'm going keeps?
Is
mine for free?
mod. forever. to have
for keeps
This
is
that
scar for
this
mod. for fun;
for a thrill. for kicks. We didn't mean to hurt anyone. Let's drive over to
We just
did
and
at
all.
mod. (See
/ won't work for surety don't expect me
also chicken feed.)
peanuts.
You
do this for chicken feed, do you?
For Pete's sake! and For pity's sake!; For the love of Mike! exclam. "Good grief!" For Pete's sake! How've ya been? For pity's sake! Ask the man in out of the cold! For
pity's sake!
for real
Ken
is
See the previous entry.
mod. genuine; not imaginary. really strange. Is
for sure phr. "absolutely." I
I'll
be
there,
forty
winks
n.
a nap; sleep. (Usually with
a quantifier. Either forty or some, a few, / could use forty a bunch of, etc.) winks before I have to get to work / need forty winks before I get started again. fossil
1. n.
an old-fashioned person.
Some
old fossil called the police about the noise. Oh, Tad, you are such a
a parent. My fossils would never agree to anything like that.
fossil. 2. n.
Would your fossils permit
that?
he for real?
This whole day just isn 't for
fershur.)
fork something over tr. to hand something over (to someone). Okay, fork it over. It 's mine! Okay, fork over the dough and be quick about it!
U
for chicken feed
no money
for practically
to
Forget you! exclam. "Drop dead!"; "Beat it!" Oh, yeah! Forget you! Forget you! Get a life!
it
Watty's place, just for kicks.
for peanuts
Forget it! 1. exclam. "Never mind, it wasn't important! " Forget it! It wasn 't important. I had an objection, but just forget it! 2. exclam. "Never mind, it was no trouble at all!" No trouble at all. Forget it! Forget it! It was my pleasure.
yours for keeps. Enjoy
it.
for kicks
forbidden fruit n. something that is attractive because it is denied to one. (From the Garden of Eden in the Bible.) A new car became Ralph's Liquor was forbidden forbidden fruit.
(The same as
for sure.
mouth n. a person who uses obscene language habitually. Terry, don 't be such a foul mouth. Sally is turning into a real foul mouth.
foul
real.
Am
happy? For sure! foul
for the birds
pizza
mod. undesirable.
is for the birds. kind of life. It's for the
This
/ don't like this birds.
up
1. in.
to blunder; to
mess
up.
Please don't foul up this time. The quarterback fouled up in the first quarter,
and that lost us the game.
2. n.
a blunder;
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fouled
up
an error. (Usually foul-up.) That was a fine foul-up! Is that your specialty? / can produce a serious foul up with both hands tied behind me. fouled
up mod. messed
gled up.
This
is
You sure are fouled four-bagger Wilbur
n.
a
up; ruined; tan-
up mess. you know.
sure a fouled up,
home run
in baseball.
four-bagger of Another four-bagger for
hit his third
the season.
Wilbur! four-bits n. fifty cents.
(A
bit is
can borrow?
four-bits I
equal to
You got
twelve and one-half cents.)
Here's four-
Keep the change.
bits.
four-eyes
body
in this taxi
a
is
little
foxy.
mod. SomeWho's
2.
got the foxy pits? Subway cars can sure get foxy in the summer. 3. mod.
Gary
alcohol or drug intoxicated.
is
Let him rest awhile. He's worse than foxy— he 's stinking drunk.
axlittle foxy.
foxy lady
or
a sexually attractive
n.
You are
girl.
Tracy.
A
us on the
street.
fracture
to cause
tr.
Now,
very hard. you.
woman
a foxy lady, couple offoxy ladies stopped
/ like to
tell
really
someone
to laugh
this joke'll fracture
a few that fracture
everybody.
someone who wears glasses.
n.
she foxy! What a foxy dame! smelly with perspiration odor.
(Also a rude term of address.) Well, I've got to the age where I'm a four-eyes. Hey, four-eyes, betcha you can't see
mod. alcohol intoxicated. week that Pete has rolled in fractured. He was so fractured he couldn see. 2. mod. demolished by laughter. The class was
fractured This
1.
the third night this
is
't
this!
four-flusher
n.
You
sant things.
Bruno
a cheater.
lousy four-flusher,
among
is
a
other unplea-
dirty four-flusher!
and
fractured,
the laughter didn't stop
managed to get up off The whole audience was
until the teacher
the floor.
fractured by the time
[four-one-one]
See 411.
four sheets in the wind and four sheets (to the wind) mod. alcohol intoxicated. (See comments at three sheets in the She's not just
wind.)
tipsy.
She's four
After only three beers, Gary to the wind.
sheets!
was four sheets
four sheets (to the wind) See the previous entry. four wheels
(Compare
n.
a car;
to wheels.)
transportation. /
need four
wheels to get me around town. Without four wheels at my disposal, I feel trapped.
n.
an automobile customized
and fixed up in a way that will attract / put every cent I earned into my fox trap, but I still repelled women. To you it's a fox trap; to me it's a
women.
pimpmobile. foxy
[
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1. mod. sexy, especially havdo with a woman. Man, isn't
faksi]
ing to
frag [fraeg]
ten minutes
tr.
to assassinate an
unpop-
ular military officer in Vietnam. (Military.) The guy was so certain that nobody was going to frag him that he got careless and Charlie got him. / saw
some
creeps frag a guy once.
fragged [fraegd] mod. destroyed; ruined. Why does your room look so fragged? My clothes are fragged, and I need a haircut.
fraidy cat
son
who
(Used
young woman. Man, who was that fox I saw you with ? That fox was my sister. Next question?
fox n. an attractive girl or
fox trap
my
were up.
[
.] n. a coward; a perfrightened of everything.
fredi is
.
.
in children's taunts.)
be a fraidy cat. is such a fraidy
Go ahead, jump!
Don't Carl
cat.
frame 1. tr. to cause an innocent person to be blamed for a crime; to contrive evidence so that someone appears to be guilty. (Originally underworld.) Jimmy tried to frame his sister for paint-
You won frame me ing the cat yellow. and get away with it! 2. and frame-up; frameup n. a scheme where an innocent person is made to take the blame 't
for something; incrimination caused by
free lunch
contrived evidence. (Underworld.)
Bruno would never fall easy. Must be The frame-up would have a frame. worked if it weren't for one little thing.
mod.
great; wild.
frantic time at rally
was
We had
Chez Freddy.
a
That
really frantic.
frat [fraet] 1. n. a fraternity. (Collegiate.)
Are you going brother
is
in
a
(Collegiate.)
night?
Frat
to join a frat?
My
mod. having to do and their members.
frat. 2.
with fraternities
Is there life is
a frat party
to-
not for me.
frat-rat [Traetraet] n. a
member
of a fra-
The frat-rats are
ternity. (Collegiate.)
Man, was I freaked.
2.
mod.
tired out;
I'm too freaked out to go The chick is some rest. really freaked. Let her rest. exhausted. on without
frame-up See the previous entry. frantic
freaked (out) 1. mod. shocked; disoriented. (Perhaps from drugs or alcohol.) / was too freaked out to reply.
having a rally tonight. Is Frank a frat-rat, or is he independent?
freaker
['frika^j
1. n.
an incident that
causes someone to freak (out). (ColleWasn't that weird? A real giate.) Did you see that near miss? freaker. What a freaker! 2. n. a freaked (out) Some poor person. (Collegiate.) freaker sat in the corner and rocked. Who's the freaker in the corner? freaking mod. damned. (Euphemistic for Get your freaking socks off fucking.)
What is this freaking mess on my bed. my plate? freaky mod. strange; eccentric.
freak daddy n. a good-looking male. Tony is a real freak daddy, and I intend to get him to take me out. Jane wants to get her hands on the freak daddy in her history class.
I get a
freaky feeling whenever I hear that music. What a freaky That's really freaky. movie. free base
and
(free)base [Tribes]
1. n.
a
smokable, pure extract of cocaine.
mommy n. a good-looking female. Wendy, you are a freak mommy, and I want to get to know you better. Sally is such a freak mommy. My eyes just water!
freak
freak (out) 1. in. to panic; to lose control. / was so frightened, I thought I
would
Come
Don't freak out. 2. n. a bad drug experience; a psychotic reaction to the drug L.S.D. (Drugs. Usually freak-out or freakout.) The poor kid had a freak-out and freak.
on, relax.
never really recovered. Some of them get turned off to drugs by a really good freakout. 3. ffrikaut] n. a wild party of
any type; any exciting happening. (Usually freak-out or freakout.) There is a big freak-out at Freddy's joint tonight. What a frantic freakout! 4. [Trikout] n. a freaked (out) person. (Usually freak-out or freakout.) Some poor
and rocked. the comer?
freak-out sat in the corner
Who's the freakout freak someone out orient someone.
tr.
in
to shock or dis-
The whole business
freaked me out. ED / didn *t mean to freak out everybody with the bad news.
Max
is
real big
on
Bruno smoke a pure Rocko has never Rocko won't
free base.
likes base, too. 2. in. to
extract of cocaine.
freebased in his life. base, smoke, or anything.
free base party n. a gathering where free
base is used. (Drugs.) Max has a free base party about once a week. The cops broke up a free base party in Beverly Hills.
free-baser
n.
a user of free base. (Drugs.)
Of course Max doesn't he
is
a free-baser! What
Some of
do?
these free-
basers have heart attacks.
free-basing
and
baseballing; basing
n.
using free base as a recreational drug. (Drugs.) Rocko refuses to try freebasing. He saw what basing did to his brother.
and free-for-all n. a brawl; a general fight. free for all started on the beach over near the concession stand. The cops broke up the free-for-all.
free for all
A
free lunch
negative.)
n.
something free. (Often is no such thing as a
There
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"
free ride
There's always somebody free lunch. who'll do anything to get a free lunch. free
ride
n.
an easy time; participa-
tion without contributing anything.
You've had a free ride long enough. You have to do your share of the work now. No more free rides around here. Get off your duff and get a job!
show n. a peek at a private part of someone's body, usually a woman. Martin looked like the type who was always waiting for a free show that was never to be. A true gentleman takes no notice of a "free show.
free
an echo or a flashback of an L.S.D. experience. (Drugs.) The kid got a free trip, and it scared her to death.
free trip n.
// these free trips continue, to run some tests.
we may
have
free-wheeling mod.
lacking
restraint;
flamboyant and uncontrolled. These high-spending free-wheeling palm-pressers appear out of nowhere at election time. She's too free-wheeling. She's a free-wheeling executive type.
and
freebee; freeby
[
fribi]
n.
money like that. freeby See the previous entry.
to eat
notes for his birthday presents. 3. in. to perfectly still. (Also a command
%)ld
given by a police officer that implies there is a gun pointed at a suspect.)
to sponge off someone else; and drink at someone else's
freeloader
drinks at parasitic
someone who eats and someone else's expense; a person. Ken is sort of a n.
freeloader, but he's a lot
of fun anyway.
There are a lot offreeloaders here. are going to have to ask to see tickets.
We
to
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be giving
me
the freeze.
/ got the
't
The
see me.
or you're dead
someone out 1. tr. to make it too cold for someone, usually by opening windows or through the use of air con-
freeze
ditioning. (See also play freeze-out.)
Turn up the heat unless you 're trying to Are you trying to freeze
freeze us out. CD
out everybody? Close the door. 2. tr. to lock someone out socially. We didn't
want to freeze you out. You failed to pay your dues, however. HlThey froze out the newcomers. freezing cold mod. very cold.
It's freez-
/ won't go out in
ing cold out there.
Why
freezing cold weather.
does
it
to be so freezing cold?
kiss
1.
n.
kissing
mouth
kissing.
using the What's
French about a French kiss? I didn't know whether I was going to get a French kiss or a fish-kiss. 2. tr. to kiss someone Kids like to try to using the tongue. French kiss each other at an early age. He tried to It's part of growing up. French kiss me, but I stopped him. fresh
1.
Ken
mod. cheeky; impudent.
Kids get some pretty fresh ideas. 2. mod. a little aggressive sexually; prone to caress too eagersure
is
fresh sometimes.
Hey, buster! Don 't get fresh with He got fresh, so I slapped him. 3. Gee, that's not fresh. mod. cool; okay. That stuffs really fresh. It's a Too bad. ly.
me!
Wendy mod. good-looking. Tom is fresh and smart too.
winner. 4. is
fresh
and fresh
the act of ignoring someone; the cold shoulder. Everybody seems 1. n.
"Freeze,
meat!"
in.
expense; to live off someone else. Don't come around here and expect to My brother-in-law has been freeload. freeloading at our house for months.
freeze
and the bull didn
/ froze,
fuzz shouted,
tongue; open
something given away free. They gave me a freebie with my purchase. / expect a freebee when I spend a lot of
freeload
the cold shoulder. Don 't freeze me, gang! I use a mouth wash! They froze him because he didn't send thank-you
French
freebee See the following entry. freebie
to ignore
tr.
have
(free)base See free base.
What did I do wrong? 2. someone; to give someone
freeze from Julie.
buff.
and sweet mod.
(Streets.)
Tracy
is
just out of
fresh
jail.
and sweet
Hey, and back on the street. you look all fresh and sweet.
Lefty,
frosh
fresh as a daisy mod.
someone who
is
How always alert and ready to go. can you be fresh as a daisy so early in / always feel fresh as a the morning? daisy.
fridge [fnd3]
Put
a refrigerator.
n.
this
What's
won't spoil. in the fridge for dinner tonight? so
in the fridge
it
also front money.) / fronted about How $550 for the new computer. much do you want her to front for this? Jan 2. n. a respectable appearance. can put up a good front, but most of us The front she put know the real Jan. up collapsed as she heard the bad news. Wendy, you are not 3. in. to pretend.
You 're just fronting
real.
mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated.
fried
brain-burned, southernthe hell did you get so The chick got totally fried on
(See
also
How
fried.)
fried?
You
three beers.
frigging
mism
mod. damnable. (A euphe-
1.
Who made this / smashed up my frig-
for fucking.)
mess? ging car! 2. mod. damnably.
What a
frigging stupid thing to do!
That
frigging
a
is
dumb frigging thing to do!
Frisco
[
San Francisco, CaliHave you ever been in Frisco?
fnsko]
fornia.
My cousin friz
n.
a frizbee. If I could find we could go out and whirl a few.
[friz] n.
my friz,
Whose friz
is
frog face n. a nerd; a geek. (Especially as
Look
here,
makes you think you can way? Wally is such a Does he take nerd classes or
frog face, what talk to
me
frog face.
that
what? frog slicing
biology class; a biolo-
n.
(A dysphemism.)
gy course.
dreaded going to frog
Dave The smell
Mary found frog slicing to
got to him.
be
slicing.
interesting.
She
especially liked the
study of conservation
and
ecology.
from A to Z mod. of a complete and wide variety. We have just about everything She ordered everything from A to Z. on the menu from A to Z.
from hunger See from
(strictly)
from hunger.
mod. from the very (See also git-go, jump (street).) This kind of thing has been a problem (the) git-go
start.
from the git-go. this from git-go. front
1. in.
to
/
man
front
a respectable and well-
n.
The former adviser now serves as a front The front man for a large foundation. man came out and made an announcement. front
money
n.
money
in
advance
front. (See
front
it.
front off about something
in. to be brash something. Todd was fronting off about his assignment and got a detention for it. You will wish you hadn 't fronted off about your supervisor.
and
about
resentful
front runner
n.
the leader; the person
or thing most likely to win.
found out some
The press
juicy secrets about the
front runner and made them all public. Who is the front runner in the race
for senator? fronts
n.
You
clothing; a sports jacket.
some good-looking fronts need some new fronts.
got
/
there.
frudi] mod. grand; wonderful. [ The curtains parted to the most Man, froody, funky set I've ever seen. is this froody! Oh, you have some froody ideas, all right. But can you carry them out?
froody
[froj]
1. n.
just a frosh, but
up
paid in advance;
How much
/ put up a lot of money do you need? front money and have nothing to show
frosh
pay out money
a less re-
spectable person or organization.
warned you about
of receiving goods; to pay
any of your teachers.
known man who represents
for
that in the tree?
a rude term of address.)
better not front
earnest money.
lives in Frisco.
all the time.
Stop fronting and be yourself. 4. tr. to challenge someone; to confront someDon't front one, perhaps in anger. me unless you are ready for a fight.
some
a freshman.
he looks
frosh to do
it
older.
for you. 2.
having to do with freshmen.
Ken
is
Get mod. The
139
frost
dorm
frosh is
full again this year.
is
frost
tr.
make someone
to
really frosts
me
The
me.
tional
in.
car frosted
by zooming into my parking place. at frosted (over).)
(More The
was
clerk
over when I
really frosted
Why was he so
asked for a better one.
and
frosty
one
Hey, toss
me
mod. cool; That music
frosty, will
ya?
and mellow.
really cool
We had
is really frosty.
a frosty time, didn't we?
one See the previous
froth
n.
How
entry.
Would you
a beer.
like
whelmed by sense
(Now
Ted
2.)
Sam comes on
like
a
is
just his sense of humor. 2. n. a
sexual
fruit
fruit
Bob
persons.) is
a
who just came
over-
such a but
fruit,
sexual person. (Objected to by
you-know-who
homohomo-
thinks that
Who's the
fruit.
fuddy-duddy and fud n.
1.
and
fruit
Pay no an old fud. There seems to be a convention of fuddy-duddies in the park today. fudge [fad3] (someone).
loop
n.
such a loony fruit loop.
a foolish
2. n.
a
homosexual person. (Objected to by homosexual persons.) Ken said that you-know-who is a fruitcake. Who's
fry
1. in.
who just came in?
to die in the electric chair.
The
derworld.) that 2.
tr.
you
will fry.
to execute
chair.
DA.
is
Bill,
determined
[3 I don want to fry! someone in the electric 't
(Underworld.) They're gonna this. Nobody's gonna fry
[fak]
tr.
&
to copulate (with
in.
someone or some
creature). (Taboo.
Potentially offensive. cretion.
140
A
Use only with disword to
highly offensive
fires.
No
fair
fudging! 2. n. nonsense; deception. Cut out the fudge and talk straight. I've
heard enough of your fudge. Let's okay?
get honest,
fudge factor n. a margin of error. / never use a fudge factor. I measure corthe material exactly the / built in a fudge
it.
and ugly." (ColleMan, is that dog of yours ever This is fugly! What or who did it eat? a real fugly problem we're facing.
fugly [fegli] mod. "fat giate.)
full blast
mod. as strongly as possible.
He honked long time.
the
The
hom full
blast for
a
whistle blew full blast
of beans mod. full of nonsense; full of hot air. Oh, be quiet. You're just Pay no attention to full of beans. John. He's full of beans.
full
full
of bull See full of hot air.
of hops mod. full of nonsense. (As one were full of beer, which contains Aw, you're just full of hops! hops.) The guy was full of hops. Nothing he said
full
fuck
you're fudging. Wait
gun
the starting
and woke everyone up. (Un-
you for Rocko!
fry
to cheat; to deceive
1. in.
factor of three inches.
(Someone who is as nutty as a fruitcake.) What a fruitcake! Doesn't even know where his head is at. Carl acts
the fruitcake
and fad]
person, especially a male.
rectly,
oaf.
like
fodidsdi
[
a stuffy person; an old-fashioned
and I cut way I measured
in?
loop See the following entry.
fruitcake
the fucking hell
are doing?
fud See the following entry.
till
fruit 1. n. a strange person.
it's
What
outa here!
dis-
this fucking
some
about another pitcher of
innkeeper?
fruit.
Get
attention to him. He's just
frosty
froth?
Use only with
cretion. Colloquial.)
a beer; a cold
n.
a
/ need a frosty one after all that work.
frost,
mod. "damnable." (Taboo. Po-
tentially offensive.
do you think you
beer. 2.
fucked her.
idiot
frosted? frosty 1.
x
fucking
frosted (over) mod. angry; annoyed.
people. There are many addimeanings and constructions with
the word. Colloquial.) Two dogs were He actually fucking out on the lawn. said in public that he had—you know—
That
angry.
little
many
This
a frosh dance. You can't come
if
made any sense.
fur
full
of hot air and full of bull; full of it full of nonsense. You're full of
mod. hot
full full
of
it
Aw, you 're
I don 't believe you.
air.
just full
of it! Be quiet!
Now this is
full
of Old Nick
mod. always making mischief. Chuckle is sure full of the devil.
Little
In
are always full of
Old Nick. full
sesh
sej]
['ful
mod.
tely. (California.)
totally;
He was
compleout
really
It was a great game. of it full sesh. They went at it full sesh the whole time.
steam ahead mod. with determinaWe started moving full steam ahead on the project. Full steam
full
tion.
ahead! Let's see
how fast
this will go!
mod. pleasant; entertaining. We had a real fun time. His party was What a fun evening! fun.
fun
fun and games time.
I've
Let's get
nonsense; a waste of had enough fun and games. n.
on with the
You fun and
n.
Compare
behind
in the striped
Who
is
that
all the fuzz?
is
is
sort offunky. Comb it. funky and disorganized.
been
John's
room
funky-drunk mod. alcohol intoxicated; stinking drunk. The guy is funky-
and I think he's going to be Wow, is she ever funky-drunk!
drunk,
sick.
mod. very good. (See also
funky-fresh
This tunage
ears anyway.
is
funky-fresh— to
Mary
when she works out, but a ner when she's been lazy.
is
funky-fresh
real slow run-
[farjk] 1. n. a bad odor; a stench. What is that ghastly funk in here? Open the windows and clear out this funk. 2. n. tobacco smoke. The funk was so thick I couldn't see across the room. Most of those important deci-
made by party hacks
funny business See monkey business. funny-farm
n.
tal hospital.
funk
sions are
I've
to fuzz-face.)
Hey, fungus-face!
blazer?
would ya?
offunk
funky 1. mod. strange; far out. / like your funky hat. Is he funky? He's such a funky guy. 2. mod. basic and simple; earthy. Everything she does / like to be around funky is so funky. people. 3. mod. smelly; obnoxious. Get your funky old socks outa here. This place is really funky. Open some windows. 4. mod. unkempt. Your hair
my
a bearded man. (See also
Who's the fungus-face
that funk,
the kind
funking mod. "damnable." (Euphemistic for fucking. Use only with caution.) Who put this funking milk crate in the hall? Get the funking hell out of here.
fresh.)
fungus See (face) fungus.
(face) fungus.
a kind of
funked out mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. Do you think you can go through life funked out all the time? Are you funked out again ?
business.
spend too much time with games!
fungus-face
crying. 5. n.
looking for.
of prunes mod. full of nonsense. (See also full of beans.) You're just silly. Completely full of prunes. Oh, you're full ofprunes. Get a life!
this weather, the kids
was
it
Man, groove on
full
and
talk.
funk that
See the previous entry.
of the devil
a
to give
blues rock; jazz based on gospel music.
of Old Nick See full of the devil.
full
whenever she has The dog was in such a
suffers this terrible funk
funkfilled back rooms. 3. n. a depressed state. I've been in such a funk that I can *t get my work done. As soon as I get out of my winter funk, I'll be more helpful. 4. n. cowardice; terror. She in
an insane asylum; a men/ think they ought to send
you to the funny-farm. gone for the funny-farm.
funny-money
n.
He's too far
any substitute money:
counterfeit money, military script, etc.
/ don 't want any funny-money. Real U.S. greenbacks or forget the deal.
Who'll change
my funny-money back
to
bucks? fur
n.
the police. (See also fuzz.)
onto you, Rocko. never gonna get Rocko.
think the fur fair
ain
't
is
/
The
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ftirball
furball See hairball.
fuzz station
had
fuse box
baks]
['fjuz
n.
something
in the fuse box.
like his fuse
box
is
fusses
all
little
Jed acts
fuzzed
and
fuzzled; fuzzy mod. alcohol
You are too fuzzed
mtoxicated.
do you come home every n.
Pack!
the time to hold the job.
completely blown.
fussbudget [fesb3d39t]
He
a police station.
to
the head; the
O I'm afraid she's missing a
brain.
n.
spend about an hour at the fuzz station, but nothing happened to him. Drop by the fuzz station and pick up a copy of the driving rules.
furphy ['fa-fi] n. a groundless rumor. / heard a furphy about you yesterday. Who started that furphy anyway?
all
Why
night fuzzled?
someone who See
fuzzle
the time, especially a baby.
Oh, Gary, don't be such a fussbudget. He is such a fussbudget. Get him a passy.
fuzz.
fuzzled See fuzzed.
fuzzword [fezwa^d]
futz See phutz.
n.
a confusing term
meant to obscure meaning. (Compare to buzzword.) The current crop of fuzzwords contains a few that have come back from the twenties. Don sling those fuzzwords at me! usually
fuzz [faz] n.
1.
and
the police; a
The fuzz can
is
man; fuzzy (tail) keeper; a detective. onto you. See if you fuzz
jail
distract the fuzz
keys. 2.
and
fuzzle
man in.
while I
lift
his
They were just sitting there fuzzling away Stop fuzzing and listen.
the day.
man
with a beard. (Compare to fungus-face.) Hey, fuzz-face, come here a minute. A couple offuzz-
fuzz-face n. a
faces
came
in
and asked for mustache
wax.
fuzz
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man
't
to get drunk.
fuzzy See fuzzed. fuzzy
(tail)
See
FWIW interj.
"for what
it's
worth." (Used
mail and computer bulletin board messages. Not pronounced FWIW, I understand exactly aloud.) in electronic
what you are See fuzz.
fuzz.
saying.
just too sensitive,
FWIW.
/ think
you are
G G
What's up G? 1. n. "guy." Tom's a real chilled out G. 2. inter), grin. (An initialism used on computer bulletin boards to show that the writer is grinning or happy. Usually enclosed, . Not pronounced.) I guess you are not interested in what I was saying to you. When are you going to learn to
spell? 3. See grand.
G-man
['d3imaen]
vestigative agent;
a government an F.B.I, agent.
in-
n.
The G-men busted in and started shootWhen I was a kid, I wanted to be a G-man. [gaeb] 1.
Can you
We
in.
to chatter; to gossip.
stop gabbing just for a minute?
like to gab.
Leave us alone.
mindless chatter; gossip.
on other people's gab. of this gab— on with the show!
gab room
n.
a
2. n.
/ like to
ten in
lis-
Enough
are said to chatter. She went gab room to powder her nose. There was a small commotion in the gab
to the
room.
much
gaefld]
just picture
Fred gaffled and acting
all
humble.
gag [gaeg]
to retch or choke, es-
1. in.
pecially with
much
noise.
(Standard
The food was so horrible I almost gagged on it. Don eat so fast. You'll gag. 2. n. a joke; a trick. She English.)
't
tells
What a
the best gags. will love
great gag!
it.
gaga ['gaga] 1. mod. crazy; eccentric. Sometimes you are so gaga! Sally is just naturally gaga. 2. mod. dazzled. The family was gaga about my success. Tom was totally gaga after he got promoted. dandruff See
galloping
walking dan-
druff.
galumph (around) [ga'lumpf
women's restroom where
women
gabfest
Fred / can
[
Everybody
ing.
gab
mod. arrested.
got himself gaffled for speeding.
gaffled
.
.
.]
in.
to
walk around; to schlep around. / spent all day galumphing around, looking for a present for Ted. Stop galumphing long enough to eat some dinner.
['gaebfest] n.
an event where
chattering or gossip takes place.
There's a gabfest going
room.
Say,
gabmeister
Todd
on
your gabfest is a
in Clare's little
loud.
a talk show host or hostess. Remington, a late night gabn.
meister, startled his
audience by suddenly There are so many
walking offstage. of these gabmeisters that I can hardly keep them straight. gaffer [gaerV]
n.
an old man; a
man. (From grandfather.)
rustic old
Nobody
out there but some old gaffer with a cane. The old gaffer smiled and moved on.
game mod.
willing to
do something.
anybody game for some pizza ? game, what about you? Is
I'm
game plan n. a plan of action; a scheme. (From sports.) The game plan for the election
was beginning
to
Our game plan had to be
shape up.
scrapped.
game time
n. time to go do what has to be done; time to go to work. (From
sports.)
Okay, gang,
game time. by game time? gams
[gaemz]
let's get going. It's
Will this report be ready
n.
a
cially if attractive.
woman's Is
legs, espeshe the one with
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gander
gams
mouth! Watch your language. Who 's the garbage mouth making all the noise?
me take a gander We done right. take a gander to see what one
garbage something down tr. to gobble something up; to bolt something down. Don't garbage your food down! That guy will garbage down almost
the gorgeous
Look at
gams?
the
on that chick!
gander n. a look. at it and see if should
all
Let
it's
is like.
U
anything.
gang-bang 1. n. an act of group rape. The fuzz was around investigating that gang-bang on the next block. There were reports of a gang-bang in the prison. 2. tr. & in. to rape in a group. The pack of thugs set out to gang-bang some innocent victim. Why can't they stop gang-banging people? 3. tr. & in. to gang up on someone or something. They looked like they were going to gang-bang me. They're always gang-banging. The punks!
garbagehead See garbage gargle
1. in.
freak.
to drink liquor.
They sat
and gargled for an hour or two. Let's go out and gargle for a while. 2. n. liquor; a drink of liquor. You want some more gargle? Pour me a little of that gargle, if you please. gargle factory
n.
Gary spends a
He
factory.
a saloon; a tavern.
of time at the gargle should open his own garlot
gle factory.
gangbanger n. a member of a street gang. The gangbangers threatened the old lady too often, and finally she pulled out a can of mace and gave them a little lesson in good manners. Unless you want to grow up to be a gangbanger, you'd better go to school every day. gangbusters [gaenbastd^z]
n.
a wild, busy,
and successful event. (See also like gangbusters.) Our party was truly gangbusters, for sure. The explosion and fire two streets over was really gangbusters for a while.
GAPO a
[
gaepo]
n.
"giant armpit odor";
bad underarm odor.
Who's got the That cab driver really has
GAPO? the
GAPO.
gargler
n.
a drinker; a drunkard.
You
are going to turn into a gargler if you don 't let up on your drinking. Some
old gargler froze to death last night.
gas 1. n. intestinal gas. The baby has gas and will cry for a while longer. I'm not too well, but I think it's just gas. 2. n. nonsense. All we got in class today was gas. Hey, that's about enough of your gas. 3. in. to talk nonsense; to brag. Pay no attention. (See also gasbag.) Stop gassing for a She's just gassing. minute and listen. 4. in. to have a good Let's We gassed all evening. time. go out and gas tonight, how about it? 5. The n. a joke; a prank; a wild time. What a gas! I had a party was a gas. great time. 6. n. liquor, especially infe-
garbage
nonsense; gibberish. He's just talking garbage. I've heard too much garbage here today. 2. n. jumbled computer code. All I get is garbage on the screen. Ifyou put garbage into the computer, you 11 get garbage out. 1.
n.
garbage freak and garbagehead n. an addict who will take any drug. (Drugs.) We don't know what she took. She was such a garbage freak. The garbageheads will take beans or anything
You want some more gas? Pour me a little more of that gas, will you? 7. and gas up in. to drink excesLet's go out and sively; to get drunk. / come home every night and gas up! find that you 've been gassing all day. rior liquor.
gas-guzzler uses
much
n.
a large automobile that / got rid of my
gasoline.
The and got a smaller car. old gas-guzzlers were certainly comfort-
gas-guzzler
able.
else.
garbage mouth n. someone who uses obscene language. Quiet, garbage
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gas-passer n. a jocular nickname for My gosh! an anesthetist. (Hospitals.) The gas-passer charged almost as much
geegaw
as the surgeon. needle in my arm.
The gas-passer put a
gas up See gas. What's the old gasbag n. a braggart. Harry is gasbag going on about now? such a gasbag when he gets going about himself.
gash bucket n. a refuse bucket; a bucket used as a urinal. (Underworld and miliDon't kick over the gash bucket tary.) Why don't you go dump over there! the gash bucket?
A couple although that is what he is. of gazoonies stood outside looking menacing. gazumph [ga'zumpf]
1.
price of a house after
to raise the
tr.
it is
They
sold.
gazumph the price at the closing. / just knew that the owner was going to gazumph the final figure. 2. tr. to subject someone to the raising of the tried to
price of a house after
it is
gazumph me! gazumph you, tell them
They
sold.
// they try to to forget the deal.
tried to
gazunkus See gazinkus. gassed (up) mod. alcohol or drug intoxiFred is gassed up and very cated. wobbly. He was too gassed up to drive
G.B.'ed Pete
home.
[
G.B.
is
mod.
d3i bid]
drug intoxicated.
"goofballed";
(Initialism. Drugs.)
Gertgot G.B.
'ed again.
'ed
fairly often before the accident. n. sending (someone) away. (Always with the.) / could see in his eyes that it was the gate for me. / got the gate, but I was going to leave anyway.
gate
GBG inter], to
['gautjo] tr. & in. to expose the buttocks (at someone), usually through a car window; to moon. Victor gau-
choed the cops as they went by. Victor would gaucho at the drop of a hat
—so to speak.
and gazunkus
[ga zinkas
Where
ga'zarjkas] n. a gadget.
and
is
the
gazinkus I use for opening paint cans? Is this the little gazunkus you were looking for? gazizzey n.
and gazob
[gs'zizi
and
What gazizzey put
a fool.
in the salt
shaker?
Don't
ga'zab]
the sugar
call
me
a
gazob!
/ think
you are
You
gear
1.
an asterisk
at the monstrous
gazoo on that
[ga'zuni] n. a bully or strong-
arm man. (Underworld.) like
is
there a
The gear stands it
to
stand for.
What a mess! 3.
Golly gee, do I have to? mod. "gross"; disgusting. (The initial
letter
of gross.)
Tiffany
geedunk
is
acting
[gi'darjk
This
is
way gee
or
Let's go out
just too gee! lately.
gidarjk]
n.
ice
and get some gee-
Pineapple on choco-
geedunk? Yuck!
geedus See geetis.
geegaw and gewgaw; googaw [gigo and gugo]
didn't
Why
(*).
the buttocks; the anus.
guy-
gazoony
is
Man, what a gear pizza!
gee [d3i] 1. n. a portion of liquor, a gallon or a single drink. You want another gee of this booze? How about a gee for me? 2. exclam. "Wow!" (An abbreviation of Jesus!, although not always recognized as such. Usually Gee!) Gee!
late
He fell down flat, smack on his gazoo. Look
This jazz
excellent.
dunk for dessert.
gazob See the previous entry. n.
mod.
gear after this word? for anything you want
cream.
gazoo [ga'zu]
.)
are such a kook!
enclosed,
just talking nonsense.
2. n.
gazinkus
initial-
that the writer is grinning, jokor happy. Not pronounced. Often
really gear!.
gay as pink ink mod. having to do with an obviously homosexual person, usually a male. Who said Ron 's as gay as pink ink? These two guys— as gay as pink ink— came in together.
(An
show
ing,
gaucho
a "great big grin."
ism used on computer bulletin boards
being
called
Bruno a
gazoony,
that's
n. a gadget; a bauble. Now a cute little geegaw. What do
you do with these gewgaws? Hang them on a tree?
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geek
geek
and geke
[gik] 1. n. a disgusting
and repellent person; a creep. The convention was a seething morass of pushy sales geeks and glad-handers. Who's the geek who just came in? 2. n. an earnest student; a hardworking student. Martin is a geek, but he will go places with his brains. // looks like the geeks are taking over this campus.
How gross! geek-chic
['gik'Jik] n. stylish
or fashion-
able only for social outcasts. (See also
geek.) Tom is the guy who always wears the tacky geek-chic jacket. Why
do you have stuff?
Don
geek out geek.)
't
in.
to
buy
they give
it
all this
geek-chic
away somewhere?
to study hard. (See also
Big
tomorrow. I've got to get home and geek out. Bill's a geekazoid. He geeks out all the time. test
geekazoid [gikazoid] n. a social outcast; a nerd. Don't be such a geekazoid! If you weren't such a geekazoid, I'd be surprised at the dumb things you do!
geekdom
n.
the
realm of the hard-
studying students or geeks.
dorm
This
not exactly geekdom. Almost all the guys here are on academic probation. / spent all last semester in the halis
lowed halls of geekdom, studying buns off.
my
"Good
grief!"
What a
[gij]
but hate geetis
my work
my job!
and
money.
exclam.
geedus; geetus [gidas] That kind of car takes a
down.
in.
to relax
I've got to
tend to fall apart.
gender-bender
a device that changes or sockets to the opposite gender— male to female, female to male. You need what's called a gender-bender to match those plugs. / tried a gender-bender, but it won't work. 2. mod. having to do with something that obscures male/female distinctions. Those gender-bender hairstyles can be He always wears genderconfusing. bender clothes. 1. n.
electrical plugs
[d33'nenk] mod. cheap; plain; / don 't want any old generic car, I want something with power
generic
undesirable.
and good looks. It has no taste
This cereal at
all.
is
completely generic. I can 't stand
genuine article
generic.
This pizza
[^enjawsn
artikl
article,
thanks.
1. tr. & in. to seduce and copulate someone, usually a woman). (Use They say caution with the topic.) They were off he georges her a lot. somewhere georging. 2.n. a bowel move-
george
n.
ment. (Euphemistic. Use caution with the topic.) / gotta go take a george. I'm okay. Nothing Back in a minute. a good george wouldn 't cure.
lot
/ don't have the of geetis, doesn't it? throw around on something like
GERK and gerk
[ga^k] n.
an elderly sim-
pleton; an old nerd. (Acronym.
that.
geriatric and jerk.) is
geezer [giza1] 1. n. a strange old man; a buzzard. Who 's the old geezer with the straw hat on? He is a nice geezer, but a little talkative. 2. n. a drink of liquor. Toss down a geezer of this stuff and see how you like it. Can I have another
bench, snoozing.
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From
Old man Johnson a real GERK— ill-tempered and rude. A couple of gerks sat on the park
geetus See the previous entry.
geke See geek.
OR
d3en'ju'wain artikl] n. the real thing rather than a substitute. Is this the genuine article or some cheap made-inI'll take the genuine U.SA. substitute?
geetis to
geezer of this firewater?
is
it.
(with
(Shows shock and disgust.) mess! Geesh! Geesh! I love
Geesh!
and let one's hair go home and gel for a while. Things are too stressful just now. If I don 't get to gel a little every day, I
gel [d3el]
German
goiter See
Milwaukee goiter.
Geronimo! [d33'ranamo] exclam. "Here I go!" (Originally said by parachutists leaving a plane. From Spanish for There's my cue. Geronimo! Jerome.) Here goes nothing. Geronimo!
get
bang out of someone or something get a kick out of someone or something tr. to get a thrill from someone or something. / always get a bang
get a
and
out of her jokes. She gets a kick out of her grandchildren.
I'll
down
to
some serious drinking
be more relaxed.
Once he
toehold, you'll never get rid
gets a
of him.
Get a wiggle on! exclam. to hurry up. Get a wiggle on! We don have all day! Hey, you guys! Get a wiggle on! We 't
gotta finish before nightfall.
buzz out of someone or something to get some humor from someone or
get a tr.
something. (See also give someone a buzz.) / thought you'd get a buzz out / hope you get a buzz out of that gag. of Ted. He's a funny guy.
can on
get a
one
to tie
and
to get drunk.
tr.
Let's
get a can on.
staff got
(Compare
go out tonight The entire office
on.)
tr.
an eyeball on someone or something to manage to spot someone or some-
thing; to catch sight of someone or When I finally got an eyesomething. ball on the speeding car, it was too far away for me to read the license plate. When Jane first got an eyeball on her blind date, she almost cringed in
disappointment.
a can on to celebrate the conget 3 we] exclam. "Stop [ being a pest!"; "I don't believe you!" Don 't bother me! Get away! Get away! Nobody is that stupid!
Get away!
tract.
and get a gift tr. to buy drugs; to take a dose of drugs. (Drugs.) Gert
get a fix
had
get
to get
did Tracy
home and get a fix. What mean when she said she had
to get a gift fast?
someone or something 1. someone or something.
in.
to support
See get a
get a gift
get behind
Let's all get behind the party in the next
fix.
Everybody got behind Todd on. 2. in. [with something] to enjoy something, such as a drug or music. (Originally drugs.) I'm really getting behind heavy metal. Sam got behind some acid and got stuck election.
someone or something See get a bang out of someone or some-
get a kick out of thing.
Get a
life!
dically!"
exclam. "Change your (Compare to Get real.f)
are such a twit! Get a
life ra-
You
Get a
life!
Wow,
get
someone
someone or something.
Get a load of Fred! of the chrome on that set of wheels! get a load off one's feet off one's feet
tr.
to
sit
and take a load down and relax.
down and get a load
down
1. in.
to lay one's
money on
the table. (Gambling.)
tr.
get a load
5/7
there.
life,
you clown! get a load of something or to look at
and cheered him
off your feet.
Take a load off your feet and have a
Okay, everyGet down, and let's body get down. get going! 2. in. to concentrate; to do something well. I'm flunking two sub-
man. I gotta get down. Come on, Sam, pay attention. Get down and leam
jects,
Hey,
this stuff. 3. in. to copulate.
down! All Steve wants down all the time.
get
to
do
let's
is
get
drink.
down on someone in. to be critical of someone; to get on someone's case. Don get down on me. I didn do it! I'm gonna get down on him for that.
get get a load off one's
one
is
to talk
mind
tr.
to say
what
thinking; to speak one's mind; something out. I'm sorry, but
had to get a load off my mind. / think you'll feel better after you get a
't
't
I just
had offyour mind. get a toehold
some
tr.
to
down to some serious drinking ///.to down to a long session of drinking. Well, now we can get down to some serious drinking. When the kids go to bed, let's get down to some serious
get
settle
work one's way
association or relationship.
soon as I get a toehold
in the
into
As
company,
drinking.
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down
get
to the nitty-gritty
down down to
to the nitty-gritty in. to get the basic facts. (See also nitty-
get
Stop messing around and get // we could
gritty.)
down
to the nitty-gritty.
down
only get
to the nitty-gritty
and stop
wasting time. get face
one's status. (The opposite of lose face.)
He's doing his best in Let's
do something
life
to get face.
to help her get
face.
to begin to get lucky, as in
1. in.
gambling. / knew I was when I got all the right cards.
getting hot
7/7 could
only get hot, I might win back everything
become busy or
to
2. in.
lost.
hectic.
hot around here toward the end of the month. When things start getting hot, we have to hire Tilings always get
more people.
get
on the act in. to become involved something with someone else. (The
get in
involvement is not necessarily welcome.) Everybody wants to get in on
Why
the act.
are you trying to get in
't
with
it.
get in the groove
in.
first,
but
/
was uncomfortable beginning to get in
Fred began to get in the went more smoothly.
the groove.
groove,
and
become attuned
now I'm
to something. at
to
things
get into something
in.
to
become deeply
involved with something.
/ got into
computers when I was in junior high school.
When
did you get into foreign
films? get
it
get
get
to understand a joke; to
tr.
understand a point of information.
148
tr.
don
't
to get
Don you get it? punished. / just know get
it.
't
and
somecriti-
off
in the
neck for
afraid he'd
neck for being late.
in the
it
it
it
Jimmy was
to ejaculate; to achieve sex-
tr.
ual release; to copulate. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.) Harry kept saying he had to get it off or die. What's wrong with Harry? The entire crew of the yacht came ashore to it off.
on 1. tr. to begin something. Time to go back to work. Let's get it on! Get it on, you guys! Time to start your
get
it
engines. 2.
to begin dancing.
tr.
go out there and get
Let's
He wanted
on!
it
it on, but my feet hurt. 3. tr. [for people] to copulate. (Potentially offensive. Use only with discretion.)
to get
Come
on, baby,
to get tr.
it
let's
get
slow jazz. age and get
on.
/ don't
to undertake to enjoy one-
/ can really get
self.
it
on with you or any other
Let's it
go
it
on with that
listen to
some new
on.
it out tr. to tell (someone) about a problem; to pour out one's grief.
get
Come on, get it out. You'll feel better. He would feel better if he could get it out. tr. to get excited about some(Other taboo meanings, also.) / just couldn 't get it up about going off to college. Paul just couldn't get it up about life in general.
get
it
up
thing.
get lip
tr.
to get
(Teens.) again.
Look
some
kissing; to neck.
Jim's been out getting at the lipstick.
kids talk about getting 1.
Sorry. I 2.
to receive
tr.
to get
that remark.
creep. 4.
someone's face tr. to provoke someone. Ted's a real pain. He likes to get in your face. He'll argue about anything. / know you are angry, but don get in my face. I had nothing to do in
all together
cism. (See also pain in the neck.)
want
on the act? get
neck
in the
it
it
work next week, okay?
to
thing bad, such as punishment or
get
bad (with someone) in. to get into trouble with someone. / tried not to get in bad with Wally. We got in bad with each other from the start.
get in
in
Try to get
dome back
You are going
get hot
I
it (all) together tr. to get oneself organized; to get mentally adjusted. When I get it together, I'll try to go back
get
to school.
to gain respect; to increase
tr.
I'm going to get it when I get home. You 're going to get it all right!
lip.
lip
These
Ye gods, how
crude!
"Go away!"; "Beat it!" Quit you 're bothering me! following me. Get lost!
Get
lost! exclam.
Get
lost,
get one's
get
mad
something)
(at
muster
to
in.
great physical strength and determina-
You're tion in order to do something. gonna have to get mad at it ifyou want to move it. Come on, you guys. Get mad.
Get
my drift?
See (Do you) get my drift ?
get
naked
to enjoy oneself
in.
Let's
to relax
narkied
Man,
.narkid] in. to inject addicted. (Drugs.) Rocko only got narkied once in his life. Gert couldn 't wait to get narkied.
get
get
[.
nowhere
fast
in.
make
to
very poor
We are getting nowhere fast
progress.
around
I'm getting nowhere fast
here.
in this job. I quit.
get off
get
on someone's case
ing to
someone about
in.
to start harass-
a personal problem;
annoy someone.
get
I'll
on Tom's
I'm case about being late so much. sorry, I won 't get on your case anymore.
on the stick in. to get organized and Get on the stick and get this Come on, you guys. Let's job done! get on the stick!
get
get busy.
get one right here
We just
with someone. (Not slang.)
How
tr.
to affect
one deeply
a specific way. (Usually accompanied with a hand gesture snowing exactly in
where one is affected: the heart = lovingly, the stomach or bowels = sickenThat sort of thing gets
ingly.)
Pete clasped his
here.
chest
to reach an understanding
1. in.
// this project
.
become
drugs; to
could get off the dime.
gets off the dime, we'll be okay.
thorough-
and enjoy oneself. all go out and get naked tonight. I feel like getting naked tonight. ly;
hooks into someone or something
and
said,
me right
hand
to his
"That sort of thing gets
me right here." get one's act together
and
get one's shit
weren't getting off well at all. well do you get off with Ralph ? 2. See
together; get one's stuff together
get off (on something).
sessions organized. (Use caution with
get off (on something)
1. in.
sure from something.
/
to get plea-
don
't
get off
on music anymore. / listen, but I just don get off. 2. in. to take a drug and 't
experience a rush. (Drugs.) Max but he's got his business to run. Tracy likes getting off better than anything else. 3. in. to do well on something. Wayne is getting off on
likes to get off,
history,
Bill
much
to everyone's surprise.
got off on fixing up his car, and I
may let him do mine too. get off one's rear
busy.
It's
Hey, Chuck, get off your to be done.
work
get off someone's
one's case
one.
up and get offyour rear and
in.
/ wish
back and get
off
to stop annoying
somesome-
you'd get off my back.
Get off my case! You aren 't get off someone's case
my mother.
See the previous
entry.
dime in. [for something or someone] to start moving. (To get off the dime that one stopped on in "stop on a dime.") / wish this organization
get off the
Let
shit.) I'll
be
tr.
me get my act together, and I'll get my stuff
right with you.
together and be right with you. 2.
and get
calm down and get mentally organized. (Use caution with shit.) As soon as I get my head together, I can be of more help. Get your act together and start living one's head together
to
tr.
again.
get one's bowels in
come it!
to get
time to get
get to work. rear! There's
in.
1.
to organize oneself; to get one's pos-
an uproar
tr.
to be-
Cool an uproar. bowels in an
overly anxious or excited.
Don
get
't
your boweb
in
Fred's always getting his uproar about nothing.
head together See get one 's act
get one's
together. get one's
hooks into someone or some-
tr. to get a hold of someone or something; to gain control of someone / want to get my hooks or something.
thing
1.
into the operation
// / could get
of this organization.
my hooks
into the control
of the company, I would change things for the better. 2. tr. [with someone] [for a woman] to succeed in "capturing" a
man. hooks
specific get her
She just can wait to When she Chuck. 't
into
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get one's kicks
got her hooks into him, she decided he wasn 't so great after all. get one's kicks (from
thing)
tr.
someone or somefrom someDo you get your
to get pleasure
one or something.
kicks from this sort of thing? I get my kicks from Billy Simpson. What a great entertainer!
lumps tr. to get the result or punishment one deserves. (Compare to
get one's
take one's lumps.) If she keeps acting that way, she'll get her lumps. We will see that
Dave gets
his lumps.
get one's nose cold
to snort cocaine. always ready to get Rocko has never gotten
Max
(Drugs.) his
his
tr.
is
nose cold. nose cold in his
life.
get one's nose out of joint
to feel
tr.
by something someone has done; to take offense at something. (See also put someone's nose out of joint.) You get your nose out of joint too easily about stuff like that. Now, don't get your nose out of joint. She didn 't mean it. slighted
get one's rocks off (on something)
tr.
to
enjoy something. (Other taboo meanings, also.) / really get my rocks off on heavy metal. I've listened to the stuff, but I sure don 't get my rocks off on it. get one's shit together
See get one's act
together.
See get one's act
get one's stuff together
a long time. about age twelve. get out of
Max
Dodge
in.
got his wings at
to leave a place.
(Refers to Dodge City, Kansas, and a catch phrase from Western entertainment adventures about this town.) x Come on, G. Let's get out of Dodge. Things are looking bad here. It's time to get out of Dodge.
my face! exclam. "Stop arguing with me!"; "Stand back! Don't confront me with your arguments and challenges!" (See also get in someone's face.) Beat it! Get out of my face! Get outa my face if you know what's
Get out of
good for you. Get out of town! exclam. "Beat it!"; "Get out of here!" Go away, you bother me! Get out of town! You'd better get out of town, my friend. You are a pest. get (out) while the goin's
leave while
it is still
safe or possible to
it was time for good. / told her she should get out while the goin's
do
so.
/ could
tell
that
me to get while the gettin
's
good. get (out) while the goin's
Get
real! exclam. "Start acting realisti-
Hey, (Compare to Get a life!) chum! You are way off base! Get real! Get real! Wake up to reality! get right See get straight. get
't
my
teeth into that
Wallace job.
Here, sink your teeth into this
you can
't
manage
and
see if
smart (with someone) in. to become someone; to talk back to someone. Don you get smart with me! If you get smart again, I'll bop fresh with
't
you.
this project.
get
get one's ticket
punched
killed. (Literally, to
tr.
Poor Chuck got his ticket punched while he was waiting for a bus. Watch out there, or you '11 get your ticket punched.
some shut-eye / need to get
to die; to be
be cancelled.)
See the
cally!"
something and sink one's teeth into something tr. to undertake to do something. / can wait to
sink
good
previous entry.
together. get one's teeth into
good and good phr. to
get (out) while the gettin(g)'s
tr.
to get
some
home and
get
do anything else. all could use some shut-eye.
shut-eye before I
the
first
tr.
to use heavy drugs for
time; to succeed in
a drug addict. (Drugs.)
becoming
Gert got her
wings after fiddling around with stufffor
150
some
We
someone going tr. to get someone exsomeone talking excitedly. / guess I really got him going on the The whole busisubject of politics. ness really makes me mad. Don get me
get
cited; to get
get one's wings
sleep.
't
going.
someone
get with
get someone's goat
Don
one.
't
let
tr.
get
She's just irritable today.
seems to be getting
someyour goat. Everybody
to irritate
Mary
my goat today.
motor running
get someone's
1.
to
someone excited. What'll I have do to get your motor running about algebra? I've got some news that'll really get your motor running. 2. tr. to get someone sexually aroused. She knows how to get his motor running. get
funny how that wild music motor running.
gets her
something going (with someone) tr. to start a romance with someone. Heidi wants to get something going with Pete. Mary and Sam got something
and
get right
in.
to take a
dose of a drug to end drug craving. (Drugs.) Gert needed a fix to get straight. / need to get right before any-
with
today, not next week.
Get the message? and Get the picture? interrog. "Do you understand?"; "Are you able to figure out what is meant?" Things are tough around here, and we need everyone's cooperation. Get the picture? We don't need lazy people around here. Get the message? get the
nod
to be chosen. (See also
tr.
someone
Fred got the
the nod.)
nod for class treasurer. the nod for the job.
/ hope I get
Get the picture? See Get the message?
and get the ax tr. to be dismissed from one's employment. Poor Tom got the sack today. He's always
/
late.
going to get the get the
else.
was afraid
get stupid
in.
to
become
intoxicated; to
make
oneself alcohol or drug intoxi-
cated.
Garth had the habit of going
show on the road
out and getting stupid every Friday night. It's been one totally screwed up week. I'll just
stay
home
tonight
and get
stupid.
get the ax
the
show on
was
tr.
to get
(someGet
Let's get started!
Get the show
the road!
We don
on the road.
that Sally
ax.
thing) started.
I think
Use
on,
get the sack
going.
get straight
thing
done
it
of lead.
you turkeys. Get Shake the lead out! I
the lead out!
give
get
full
Come
caution.)
want tr.
to
It's
one has bowels
't
have
all day.
Another hour of drinking and Pete knew he was going to get there. Those guys have all got there. Now what?
get there
in.
to get drunk.
someone 1. in. [for someone or something] to annoy someone. The whole business began to get to me after a while. Her remark got to me after a while. 2. in. [for someone or something] to please or entice someone. Lovely flowers and things like that get to me. Sad music gets to me and makes me cry.
get to
See get the sack.
drop on someone 1. tr. to succeed an advantage over someone. I guess I got the drop on you because I was early. / got the drop on almost
get the
in getting
everybody by sending in my registration by mail. 2. tr. [for person A] to manage
gun aimed at person B before can aim back at person A. (The gun is then "dropped" by person B.) Rocko got the drop on Max in a Max was too stoned to get the flash. drop on Rocko. to get a
person
B
1. in. to modernize one's and behavior. Get with it, Martin. Get real! You really have to get with it, Ernie. 2. in. to hurry up and
get with
it
attitudes
get busy; to be
get the goods
on someone
tr.
to uncover
incriminating evidence against someone. The fuzz has the goods on Mr. Big.
The IRS
tried to get the
Rocko, but Rocko knows
goods on
all the angles.
lot
industrious with it;
Let's get with
lot to do.
a
more
Get with
something.
we've got a it.
There's
of work to be done.
someone in. to find out about someone; to get to know someone.
get with
I'd realty like to get with her, but she's so
Get the lead out! exclam. "Get moving!"; "Hurry up!" (Crude. It is assumed that
distant.
with Heidi
/
was
just beginning to get
when she
left.
151
get with the
program
program in. follow the rules; do what you are supposed to do. Come on, Mark. Get with the program. Do what you are told. Jane just can seem to get with the program. She has to do everything Her way, right or wrong.
get with the
't
getaway [getswe]
1. n.
an escape from
the law. (Originally underworld.)
made
a quick getaway. There was no time to make a getaway, so we had to talk to Mrs. Wilson. 2. n. a quick vacation. We took a little getaway to the Bahamas. What you need is a Lefty
weekend getaway.
and
(ghetto) box
down
You can (ghetto)
't
that ghetto blaster in here!
bring that box on this bus!
box See the previous
in
n. nonThere sure
['dsiba^aeb^]
sense; gossip
and
chatter.
of gibber-gabber coming from your room, Jimmy. What's all this gibber-gabber about? is
a
lot
was canceled because of the snow.
in.
to play or perform. (Musicians.)
['gidi
.
.
.]
exclam.
"Move
fas-
it moving. Also said to people or things as a joke.) Giddy up, Charlie! It's time to start moving. Let's get going, chum. Giddy
ter!" (Said to a horse to start
up! giffed [gift]
mod.
hungry for a job. I'm happiest when I'm gigging. 3. n. any job of an assignment nature; a onetime job such as when a newspaper reporter is assigned
Wally 4. n.
alcohol
intoxicated. it's
Man,
is tired
the tavern pretty giffed.
pretty giffed for just
of gab
n.
a few
She was
beers.
the ability to speak well in
public; the ability to persuade people
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of getting the crime gigs.
this
paperwork
This day 's a gig. I've
a bit of laughter.
good gig.
giggle goo
such a
is
gig.
had it. 5. n. a giggle; Her little story gave / had a nice little gig
Can
gigj gu] n. liquor.
[
I
pour you a little of that giggle goo? Haven you had about enough of that giggle goo? 't
GIGO
phr. "garbage in, garbage out." (Computers. Acronym. If you get garbage out of a computer, it's because you put garbage in. See also DIDO.) The program failed, and I know it's G.I.G.O. my fault. You know, GIGO. is my theme song. I get out just what I deserve.
gimme
"give me." (Eyespoken English. Used
['gimi] phr.
dialect. Typical
only for effect.
examples of
Used
the thingy
my work?
in the
Do you
this dictionary.)
wanna gimme ahead with
and lemme go
Gimme another
one.
Gimme a break!
See Give
1. n.
tory.)
me a
break!
a lame person. (Origi-
nally underworld.
Friday."
Said of people who celebrate the end of the workweek with liquor.) He
gift
/ didn't
a bother; an annoyance; a job.
gimp [gimp]
(From TGIF "Thank God
left
2.
/ didn 't gig at all last week. I'm getting
in writing
Giddy up!
on the The
gig out
over what happened to Tom.
entry.
bed"; good as a sexual partner. (Use caution with the topic. Initialism.) Pete lets on that he's GIB. How does he know he's GIB?
gibber-gabber
had a
gig
us all a
ghost turd n. a wad of lint, as found under a bed. (Use caution with turd.) There's a lot of ghost turds under the bed. Sweep out those ghost turds and get rid of them.
GIB mod. "good
/
west side, but I couldn 't get there.
[gedo
'gedo baks] n. a portable stereo radio. (Often carried on the shoulder, especially by blacks.) Hey, turn
a onetime job; an engagement.
1. n.
(Musicians.)
want that election gig, but I got it anyway.
and
blaest^
gig
to write a particular story.
gewgaw See geegaw. (ghetto) blaster
speak well extemporaneously. Gary has the gift of gab, but it doesn 't get him anywhere. / wish I had the gift of gab. I'm just so shy. verbally; the ability to
Otherwise derogamug an old gimp
Lefty tried to
with a cane.
The gimp came hobbling
muttering something under his I've been breath. 2. in. to limp about.
along,
gimping a
little bit
since
my accident.
gimp over there as soon as take a while on these crutches.
I'll
I can.
It'll
give
gimpy
gimpi]
[
1.
mod. crippled; lame. leg. I'll catch up in a sort of gimpy since the
I got a gimpy
He
minute.
's
n. a police officer. pun on (Also a rude term of address. Here comes lame, an inept person.) gimpy, swinging his stick. Gimpy has been around asking about you.
football season. 2.
A
and
gin mill
gin dive; gin palace
n.
a
saloon; a low liquor establishment.
Fred
hit every gin mill
You '11 find Bob
on
the
some
in
way home.
gin dive on
the west side of town.
to
and
it
/ gave
a minute.
Give
up! exclam.
it
"Enough is enough!" You can do it right. *t
n. a drunkard. Gert could have ended up a ginhead, but she went another route instead. A couple of ginheads sat in the corner booth silently.
n.
1.
a
woman; a young woman. some as demeaning
(Objectionable to
A
women.)
to
bunch of us
care to
girls
week?
2. n.
come over
that last
got
my house
me
Give
What
hand was the girl. need that girl!
I needed in
Come on,
magazine n. a magazine featuring nude women. The girlie magazines were hidden under the countpictures of
Some
creepy character asked Sally
would pose for a girlie magazine.
if she
show n. a performance featuring nude women. Bob and Pete went to the city and tried to get into a girlie show.
girlie
This movie has turned out to be nothing but a girlie show. git-go
[
gitgojn. the very beginning. (See
from (the) git-go.) Clear back at git-go, I told you this wouldn work.
also the
't
He's been gritching ever since git -go.
Give
is
"You
don't believe you!";
You say a
gorilla is loose in the city?
Tom said he was a break! late again because the back stairs caved in. His boss said, "Gimme a break!"
Gimme
me a rest! exclam. "Lay off!"; "That enough!" (Compare to Give it a Haven 't I told you everything rest!) you need to know? Give me a rest. Give me a rest! I've heard enough.
Give is
me five!
Give
me
Give
five!;
girlie
er.
and Gimme
a break! enough!"; "Stop it!" Do you have to go on and on? Give Give me a break, you me a break! guys! That's enough! 2. exclam. "Don't be so harsh!"; "Give me a chance!" I'm sorry! I'll do better! Give me a break! / was only late once! Give me a break! a break!
exclam. "That
next
the queen of playing cards.
(See also bitch.) dealer, I
to
girls
Would you
together for coffee today.
"Quit now!"; Oh, give it up! Give it up! You
don't expect anyone to believe that!"
gin head
girl
the gun,
can 't pitch!
3. exclam. "I
gin palace See the previous entry.
it
backfired.
1.
gin dive See the following entry.
someone a (good) talking
a rest! exclam. "Shut up!" (The a mouth. Compare to Give me a rest!) I've heard enough. Give it a rest! Give it a rest! You talk too much. it
See the following
(some)
Slip
me
and Give me
skin!
five!
entry.
exclam. "Shake
my
hand!" (A request for some form of hand touching in greeting. See also give someone five, high five.) Hey, Give me man! Give me some skin! five,
my man!
give (out) with something
in.
Come on,
information. the facts,
man.
We 're in a
hurry.
to give out
give out with
Give with the
someone a buzz 1. one a telephone call.
give
tr.
to give
info.
some-
Give me a buzz give her buzz tonight
sometime. I'll and ask her. 2. tr. to give someone a It chuckle or a bit of enjoyment. always gives me a buzz to watch Sally do her act. Your little joke gave me a buzz.
"it" is
give
someone a (good) talking to tr. to someone; to lecture someone
scold
sternly.
give
it
the gun
tr.
rev an engine up.
to
gun an engine; to Give it the gun for
good
/ think
talking
Jimmy a
to.
talking
I'll
have to give Pete a The teacher gave
to.
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give
someone a (good) working over
give
someone a (good) working over
scold or beat someone.
to
tr.
The boss gave
would give someone.
me
the ax. 2.
tr.
to divorce
Mary gave Fred the ax after months. She gave him the ax
me a good working over before firing me.
only six
Fred really gave her a working over about her performance on the project.
because he wouldn't stop smoking he promised.
someone a melvin tr. to jerk up someone's pants or underwear, drawing the fabric up sharply between the
give
buttocks.
(It is
assumed that some geek
named Melvin goes about underwear
with his
uncomfortable posi// you even try to give me a
tion.)
in this
I'll bust you one. Tom came up behind Fred, and with a deft motion, gave Fred a melvin that he would never
melvin,
someone the brushoff tr. to repel someone; to ignore someone. (See also brushoff.) Sam was afraid that Mary was going to give him the brushoff. The manager gave her the brushoff when
give
she asked for a
give
me a pain!
Sally gave
earful for doing that.
Sam
an earful for the way he treated Mary. to tell
someone
2.
surprising secrets.
an earful about Pete and the things he said about Mary. Wally gave Sally an earful about Todd's Sally gave Walty
tax problems.
someone
give
five 1.
someone
to give
tr.
tr.
John
five!)
Jerry gave
passed
in the corridor.
me five in class, hell 1.
me
five as they
Don
tried to
but missed. tr.
to bawl
to
about
Tom
I'm
it.
really
going to
when he gets home. 2. tr. trouble someone. (Use caution with
hell.)
hell
My
this weather.
us hell at the
arthritis is giving
me hell in
This problem
is
giving
office.
someone the ax 1. tr. to dismiss someone from employment. They had to give Paul the ax because he was so unproductive. / was afraid they
give
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someone. (Under-
Max
the
give
someone the finger
1. tr.
to display
the middle finger upright as a sign of
Did derision. (The gesture is taboo.) one of you guys give Ted the finger? Somebody gave the cop the finger. 2. tr. to mistreat someone; to insult someYou've been giving
one.
me
the finger
wrong?
tired of everybody giving around here just because
I'm
the finger
I'm new.
someone the gate tr. to get rid of someone. The chick was a pest, so I
He threatened to gave her the gate. give me the gate, so I left. someone the go-by tr. to bypass someone; to ignore someone. (See also
give
someone
out; to scold someone severely. (Use caution with hell.) The boss just gave hell
kill
business.
give
2.
greeting. (See also high five, Give
me
to
Lefty wanted to give Rocko the business for being so damn perfect.
to slap hands in
right with you.
give
tr.
world:)
me
someone
the business about being late all
the time. 2.
Hey, give me five over here for a minute, will ya? / gotta give this guy five with the crate. Be
give
haircut.
ever since I started working here. What's
a helping hand.
give
my
Mr. Big told Bruno to give
someone an earful 1. tr. to scold someone. Vm going to give Ralph an
give
tr.
me the business Sam was giving
guys have been giving
Tom someone a pain tr. to annoy or bother someone. Please don't give me a pain. Vve had a hard day. You
give
raise.
someone the business 1. tr. to harass someone; to scold someone. The
give
about
forget.
like
Gert gave us
go-by.)
all the
go-by
/ didn't mean when she was so sick. to give you the go-by. I'm preoccupied, that's
all.
someone the nod 1. tr. to signal / someone by nodding. (Not slang.) gave Pete the nod, and he started the Just give me the nod when procedure.
give
you are
ready. 2.
tr.
to
choose someone.
The commit(See also get the nod.) tee gave Frank the nod for the job. They gave her the nod.
gloomy Gus
someone the raspberry
give
tr.
to
make
gun
glass
hypodermic
a
n.
syringe.
Gert broke her glass gun
someone.
(Drugs.)
(See also Bronx cheer, raspberry.) The audience gave him the raspberry, which gave him some second thoughts Even after about his choice of career. his grandstand play, they gave him the
and had
to improvise.
bangsters
don even use a glass gun.
a rude noise with the lips at
raspberry.
The boss
(See also shaft.) Wally the shaft. gives
give
really
gave
Somebody always
me the shaft.
someone the
a pursuer.
We
he gave us the
slip.
slip in
glassy-eyed,
no time
at
to escape
tr.
were on his
from
worse.
little
glazed. I think he's
done for.
glazed (over) See the previous entry.
What a n. a fool; an oaf. Does he know what's what?
gleep [glip} gleepl
all.
't
act like such a gleep!
n.
['gizmo]
this silly little
n.
a gadget.
What
is
gizmo on the bottom for?
This gizmo turns gizzy
usually glass-eyed, but tonight
is
much
Don
gizmo
in-
looking sort of only midnight.
is
tail until
/ can give her the
something that reveals a fact that was meant to be concealed. (Often with dead.) The way he was walking was a giveaway to the fact that he was the one who was injured. The look on her face was a dead giveaway.
giveaway
of those
glazed (drunk) and glazed (over) mod. She has had too alcohol intoxicated. Fred looks much. She's glazed drunk.
a
slip
Mary and it's
toxicated.
it's
lot
mod. alcohol or drug
glass(y)-eyed
Ernie
someone the shaft tr. to cheat or deceive someone; to mistreat someone.
give
A
't
it
marijuana. (Drugs.)
['gizi] n.
The cops found a little gizzy in the guy's pocket. Where 'd you get this gizzy? glad mod. alcohol intoxicated. few beers she was a mite glad. she was too glad to stand up.
glad-hand
tr.
to greet
After a In fact,
right guy.
There [glitj] n. a defect; a bug. a glitch in the computer program somewhere. I'm afraid there's a glitch
glitch is
our plans.
flashiness and glamour. The place was a morass of eager sales The glitz was geeks and phony glitz. blinding, and the substance was invisible.
glitz [glits] n.
someone
effu-
mod. fashionable; glamorwas a real glitzy place to hold
glitzy ['glitsi]
ous.
The Senator was glad-handing sight. He glad-handed
sively.
Fred seems to Don't be a glick, Bill. be a classic glick, but he is really an all-
in
on.
a strange person; a nerd.
glick [glik]
//
Some glitzy blonde sang a a meeting. couple of songs, and then the band played again.
everyone in
someone who displays friendship. What a morass glad-handers and glitz! The
glad-hander effusive
n.
of eager glad-handers were out in full force at the Independence Day parade. glad rags
fancy clothes; best clothing. (See also rag.) You look pretty good in your glad rags. I'll get on my glad rags,
and
n.
we'll go
glamour puss ful face.
I'm no dog I
out tonight.
is
what
to steal something.
tr.
Lefty
glommed a
little
He gloms
just
car for the evening.
about everything he needs. 2. tr. to take a look at someone or something. (Under-
Glom this layout for a minute. Come over here and glom the view of
world.) the
bank from
this
window.
glommed [glamd] mod.
Max
derworld.)
speeding charge. I
n. a person with a beautiI'm no glamour puss, but
either. Now, Sally would call a glamour puss.
glom
[glam] 1. (Underworld.)
Ernie and got a real earful.
could
the story of my
pessimist.
n.
(Un-
glommed on a didn even know he 't
Glommed
drive.
gloomy Gus
arrested.
got
again! That 's
life.
a sad or dismal person; a
Don't be such a gloomy
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glop
Gus, Watty.
came in
Well,
gloomy Gus just
again.
glop [glap] 1. ft. unappetizing food; gunk; anything undesirable. Do we have the same old glop again tonight? No, this is different glop. 2. tr. to slop or plop something (onto something). She glopped something horrible onto my plate. Don 't glop any of that pink stuff anywhere near me.
mod. overblown; over-hyped;
glorified
Tracy knows some old dames she would call glutzes.
phony.
Why, this is just a glorified potato chip! She's just a glorified dance-hall girl.
(g)narly
mod.
['narli]
excellent; great.
This pizza
(California.)
Who for words! the white sweater? x
is
is
too gnarly
that narly
guy
in
go 1. ft. a try (at something). Let me have a go at it this time. I'd like to have another go at it, if I can. 2. in. to urinate. I gotta go! Jimmy's gonna go in his pants! 3. tr. to say or utter something. (Mostly teens. Used in writ-
So I go, "Gross!" ," and just
ing only for effect.)
Then she
goes, "Like
.
.
.
stops talking.
glow
ft.
a mild state of drug or alcohol
intoxication. She had a nice glow, but was by no means stewed. What was supposed to be a nice glow turned out to
be a
glow
terrifying hallucination.
worm
a drunkard; an alcoholic. You are turning into a regular glow worm. Gary came out of the bar and tripped over a napping glow worm near the entrance to the alley.
go-ahead
n.
permission to proceed; the
go ahead. (Compare to sayWe're ready to go as soon as we so.) get the go-ahead. / gave him the goahead, and the tanks started moving in. signal to
n.
(From glow.)
n. the place where old horses are sent so their bones can be made into glue; a similar, imaginary place for people. I'm not as young as I used to be, but I'm not ready for the glue factory yet. If you can't keep up, we'll send you to the glue factory.
go all the way in. to copulate; to carry necking all the way to copulation. (Euphemistic. Use caution with the topic.) Did they go all the way? He keeps wanting me to go all the way.
glue factory
glued 1. mod. arrested. (Underworld.) Watty got glued for having over three hundred parking tickets. Max goes to great extremes to keep from getting glued. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred is glued and can 't stand up. About three more beers and I'll be glued.
go ape (over someone or something) in. to become very excited over something. Sam / just go ape over chocolate. went ape over Mary. go bananas
gluey and gluer n. a person, usually a teenager, who sniffs glue. (Drugs.)
a gluey. That's why he's failing The gluers stand a chance of having brain damage.
Teddy
is
in school.
glug [glag] ft. a gulp or shot of liquor. Have another glug of this moonshine. / took one glug and spit it out. glutz [gbts]
morals.
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a woman of low / didn't say she is a glutz! ft.
a
slut;
to
go mildly
crazy. (See
Sorry, I just
nanas for a minute. going to go bananas.
went ba-
/ thought he
was
go belly up See turn belly up. go blooey and go flooey [go blui and go flui] in. to fall apart; to go out of Suddenly, all my plans went order. / just
blooey.
gluer See the following entry.
in.
also bananas.)
go flooey at the
hope everything doesn't
last
minute.
go-by ['gobai] n. an instance of ignoring or passing by (someone). (See also give I got the go-by someone the go-by.) / find from her every time I saw her. the go-by very insulting.
Go
chase your
tail!
See the following
entry.
Go
chase yourself! and Go chase your Go climb a tree!; Go fly a kite!;
tail!;
Go
fry
an
egg!;
Go jump
in the lake!;
!
go
Go soak yourself! Oh, "Go away!" go chase yourself! Get out of my face! Go soak your head! You're a pain in the Go soak your
head!;
exclam. "Beat
it!";
neck. tree!
See the previous
entry.
Hey, man! to happen. going down? Something strange is going down around here. 2. in. to be accepted. (See also swallow.) We'll just have to wait awhile to see how The proposal didn 't all this goes down. go down very well with the manager. 3. in.
go down
1. in.
to
mama
goflooey See go blooey.
Go fly
a kite! See
go for broke
in.
Go chase yourself choose to risk everysucceed against great
to
thing; to try to
Go climb a
home
go for
odds.
/ feel lucky today.
broke.
We decided to go for broke, and
that
is
exactly
I'll
how we ended up.
What's
to
be arrested. (Underworld.)
Lefty
didn 't want to go down for a job he didn 't Mr. Big said that somebody had do. to go down for it, and he didn 't care who.
go down in flames in. to fail spectacularly. (See also shoot someone down in flames, crash and burn.) The whole team went down in flames. [J I'd hate for all your planning to go down inflames. go down the chute See
go down
the
tube(s).
go down the line
in.
caine. (Drugs.) office to
to snort a line of coGert had to leave the
go down the
her in the john, going
line.
down
They found the
line.
go down the tube(s) and go down the chute in. to fail totally; to be ruined. The whole project is likely to go down the tubes. All my plans just went down the chute.
go Dutch in. [for two people] to split the cost of something, such as a meal. (See also Dutch treat.) How about dinner tonight? We'll go Dutch, okay? Yes, let's go Dutch.
"Try to figure it out."; She hung again. Go figure. They heat
flgure. interj.
"Just try to explain that!"
up on me
the water to
make
the tea hot, then they
put ice in it to make it cold, then they put lemon in it to make it sour, and then they put sugar in it to make it sweet. Go figure.
something I wanted to do, so I decided to go for
Go fry an
it.
egg! See
Go chase yourself!
an energetic person. n. a real go-getter. He ll go places. Sally was really cut out to be a go-
go-getter
Watty
is
getter.
go-go [ gogo] 1. mod. having to do with fast-dancing young women on display / worked as a go-go in a nightclub. girl for a while. Those go-go places have mostly changed their style. 2. mod. vigorous; energetic; frantically moving. He's a real go-go guy, always up to something. / bought some silly go-go stock, and it collapsed immediately.
go great guns
in.
to
do very
Everything
well; to
go
going great guns around here. We're busy and making lots of money. The project is finally going great guns, just as we planned. very
fast.
go haywire
go downhill in. to decline. This company is going downhill at a great rate. Things began to go downhill when the county cut the maintenance budget.
Go
Go for it! exclam. "Do it!"; "Try it!" It looked like Go for it! Give it a try!
berserk.
1. in.
[for a
is
person] to go
/ thought for a minute that
Pete was going to go haywire.
Sorry, I
guess I just went haywire for a minute. 2. [for something] to go out of order; break down. My stereo's gone haywire. I'm afraid my car's gone haywire.
in.
to
It
won't
start.
home in a box in. to be shipped home Hey, I'm too young to go home dead. in a box. You had better be careful on this camping trip, or you'll go home in a box.
go
home to mama in. to give up something—such as a marriage— and return to one's mother's home. I've had it.
go
I'm going home to mama. Mary him and went home to mama.
left
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!
go into orbit
go into orbit
Wow,
in.
to
going to go into
The
become very excited. manager was
I thought the
she was so mad.
orbit,
entire staff
went into orbit when
they got the news.
Go jump
in
See
the lake!
Go
go over the hill in. to escape from a prison or from the military service. (See also over the hill, go over the wall.) Jim went over the hill, and they caught him. Jed and Tom planned to go over
What happened?
the hill last night.
chase go\)ver the wall
yourself!
in.
to escape
from a
Lefty tried to go over the wall, but the warden got wind of it. Nobody prison.
go mental
in.
Don go 't
go
crazy; to act stupid.
mental, Jane. Just calm
down
and think about it. Another day in that history class and I know I will go mental.
goes over the wall in
go overboard
go off half-cocked
knowing
all
to proceed without
in.
/ waited be-
the facts.
cause I didn 't want to go off half-cocked. The boss went off half-cocked and exploded into a rage about the mess.
do far more than is has a tendency to go
to
in.
He
necessary.
this joint.
n. amphetamines. (Drugs.) She took go-pills to start the day. After
go-pills
a while, these go-pills just
go off the deep end
to
in.
do or exper-
ience something in the extreme: to
madly
in love, to
go
crazy, to
suicide, to fly into a rage, etc.
fall
commit John
Mary and wants marry her. I was afraid he would go Sally off the deep end, and he did. was so depressed that we had to watch her day and night so she wouldn go off the deep end. I saw what he had done, and I just went off the deep end. I was in a blind rage and didn 't know what I was to
't
doing.
Go "I
/ really
to
in.
knew
/
deny
it!"
Go
on! You don't
are talking about!
on! You weren't even
to
be
to
1. in.
successful.
would go places.
go places
in
life.
to sell to the public shares
owned company. (SecuriThe company decided markets.)
of a privately ties
not to go public because the economy We '11 go public was so bad at the time. at a later time. 2.
in.
to reveal something
to the public. (Especially with with, as
the examples.)
It's
when we can go public
too early to go
Just
story.
let
me know
with
this.
to
fail;
really
Go
there.
go on (and on) about someone or something in. to rave about someone or something endlessly. He just went on and on about the trouble he was having with the post office. Why do you have to go on about your sister so ? go over big
in. to be appreciated as a I'm sure this will go over big with the folks at home. Well, it didn 't go over very big with the boss.
success.
go over like a lead balloon in. [for something meant to be good] to fail to be good. (Compare to go over big.) The joke went over like a lead balloon. I'm afraid your plan went over like a lead balloon.
become very
that Sally
want
go public
in
know what you
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go places
public with the
on! exclam. "I don't believe you!";
demand
taken.
is
completely in love with
Now don't
overboard at these parties.
go overboard for us. We're just folks.
go Rinso
[.
.
.'rinso] in.
lapse in price.
to
the drain. Rinso is goes down the drain after
Used
to col-
go down a laundry soap that
(A play on
it
is
used.
in the context of the securities
markets or other financial setting.) my drug stocks went Rinso when the / president attacked the drug industry. knew my bank account would go Rinso All
after last
month 's
Go soak your
bills
came in.
head! See
Go chase your-
self!
Go soak yourself! See Go chase yourself go sour //
in.
to turn
looks like all
My
whole
bad or unpleasant.
my plans
life is
are going sour. going sour right now.
go South and head South an escape; to disappear.
1. in.
to
make
Lefty went
gobbledygook
South the minute he got out of the pen. The mugger headed South just after the crime. 2.
in.
to go down. (SecuAll the stock market
to
fall;
markets.)
rities
The market
indexes went South today.
headed South today at the opening bell. 3. in. to quit; to drop out of sight. Fred got discouraged and went South. I think he gave up football permanently. After pulling the bank job, Max went South for a few months. go straight
to stop breaking the
1. in.
Lefty thought about going straight / once, but pulled himself out of it. law.
think
give all this
up and go
day.
to get off drugs.
I'll
—some
2.
in.
straight
Ernie wanted to go straight more than anything else in the world. (Drugs.)
I'll
go straight one of these days.
go the limit to get as to
do
to
in.
much
do
much as possible;
as
Let's plan
as possible.
we
everything
can. Let's
go the
To heck
We'll go the limit.
limit.
salts
to
in.
like
a dose of (the)
digestive tract like a strong laxative.
That stuff they served last night went me like a dose of salts. Careful of the coffee. It'll go through you like a dose of the salts. through
bad day— it's
to exper-
1. in.
A
good
day, a
part of going through Nothing new with me,
all
the changes.
just going through the changes. 2.
go underground in. to go into hiding; The to begin to operate in secret. entire operation went underground, and We'll go we heard no more about it. underground if we have to. Nothing will stop the movement. go up
to start to feel the effects of a
in.
in.
to
go through a reconstruction of one's life. / went through the changes all last year. It was a real bad time. I've been going through the changes lately. It's tough to grow up at this age.
and suddenly
exclam.
terrible.
"Go to hell!"
Just go to!
to
blazes!
exclam.
"Go
Oh, you 're
to hell!"
to
the devil!
Go
to blazes!
Stop pestering me! I'm sick of your complaining. Go to the devil!
go to town to; to
in.
to
up.
See the following entry.
it
go with the flow and go with it in. to cope with adversity; to accept one's lot. No, just relax and go with the flow. Go with it. Don't fight it.
go zonkers
in.
What a day! went a goat
n.
a fast
and powerful
Pontiac
car; a
Hey, man, where'dyou get that
His goat conked out on him.
goat?
gob [gab] thing.
/
zonkers there for a minute.
little
GTO.
to go slightly crazy.
I almost went zonkers.
1. n.
a blob or mass of some-
gob of mashed Take that horrid gob out of your mouth! 2. n. a large I'd like a big
potatoes, please.
of gum
amount of something. (Often plural.)
in
the
gobs of it if you / need gobs of money to
I've just got
get through school.
Go to, you creep!
and Go
Go to the devil! See
The guy
asleep.
home and go
Ever since Uncle go West in. to die. Ben went West, things have been peaceWhen I go West, I ful around here. want flowers, hired mourners, and an enormous performance of Mozart 's "Re" quiem.
gobbledygook
Go
fell
couldn 't wait to get
need some.
Go to!
Gert started to go up
drug. (Drugs.)
go with
move through someone's
go through the changes ience life's changes.
to town.
Go to your room! See On your bike!
with
the cost.
go through someone
The main office is really and energy. going to town on collecting overdue payments. Man, our team is really going
the previous entry.
do something with gus-
do something with great speed
[gabjdiguk]
sense; officialese or berish.
1.
n.
government
nongib-
/ can't understand all this
gobbledygook. They must have a full time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook. 2. n. any mess, espcially of food.
Dinner was just gobbledygook again. Do we have the same old gobbledygook tonight?
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God's acre
God's acre n. a cemetery. When I end up in God's acre, I want everything to go on without me. They're planting somebody new in God's acre. gofer Sec gopher.
and
goggle-eyed
googly-eyed ['gagjaid alcohol intoxicated and staring. Wally was goggleeyed and couldn't stand up. He's too googly-eyed to drive home.
and
gugliaid]
mod.
ments
to stay
highly paid executives in large corpo-
See also golden parachute.) The company provided a variety of golden handcuffs to keep its execs happy through a takeover. The golden handrations.
cuffs included a half million in severance
pay for one of the
going over 1. n. an examination. After a thorough going over, the doctor pronounced me alive. / gave your car a good going over, and I fixed a lot of little things. 2. n. a beating. Bruno gave the guy a terrible going over. After a going over like that, the guy spent two weeks in the hospital.
goings-on n. happenings; events. There are sure some strange goings-on around here. Some big goings-on
downtown
tied
up
the
traffic.
This
n.
gold digger tion to a
wealth.
a woman who pays attenman solely because of his Sam called Sally a gold digger,
"You
little
brick to get back to work. 2.
to shirk one's duty.
in.
to
be
lazy;
Stop goldbricking
Whoever is goldand get back to work. bricking when I come back gets a real to.
address.)
an old person; a senior The golden-agers sat on the benches and chatted. When I'm a golden-ager, I'm going to have a partcitizen.
time job.
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't
opportunity,
You get a golden
opportunity like this very rarefy.
golden parachute n. a special kind of severance pay for persons who may be forced to leave a job. (Usually for highly paid executives in large corporations. If the company is taken over
and the executives are fired, they are very well provided for. See also golden handcuffs.) My golden parachute was so attractive that I wanted to get fired. // all the golden parachutes were used at the same time, it would bankrupt the
company. goldie locks
over
n.
a policewoman. (Citizens
Goldie locks pulled me There citation.
radio.)
and gave me a
was a goldie locks waiting under the on poor unsuspecting
bridge to spring
people
like
me.
gomer [goma1] reject. (From
n.
1. n.
a stupid oaf; a social
the television character Who's that gomer in the Pyle.)
Gomer
That gomer is my Uncle Ben. 1 a person unwelcome in a hospital. (Supposedly an acronym for "Get out of my emergency That goomer with the allergy room.") 2.
is
and goomer [guma ] n.
back
in E.R.
goomer back gone
a loafer. (Also a term of Larry is such a goldbricker!
n.
Get moving, you goldbrickers. golden-ager
a very good oppor-
overalls?
goldbrick 1. n. a lazy person. Pete is just a lazy goldbrick. Tell that gold-
talking
n.
my golden
n.
and she was devastated. gold digger!" cried Sam.
goldbricker
is
and I can pass it up.
band
money. (See also ducats.) Do you have enough gold to pay the bill? There's no gold in my pockets.
gold
vice presidents.
golden opportunity tunity.
going high n. a long-lasting type of drug high. (Drugs.) Freddie had a going high and was in trouble. Gert was always after a real going high.
n. monetary induceon the job. (Usually for
golden handcuffs
1.
scious.
in the
/ don't want that emergency room.
and gone under mod. unconHe gone. Prop his feet up and 's
He's gone under. an ambulance. You can begin the procedure now. 2. and gone under mod. alcohol or drug Those chicks are gone— intoxicated. Ted is really gone too much to drink. under. 3. mod. cool; out of this world. This ice cream is gone, man, gone! She is one real gone chick.
call
Good heavens!
gone goose
someone or something done for. (A play on dead
n.
finished or
I'm afraid that your old car is duck.) This old thing is a gone a gone goose.
goober-grease [gubaHjris] n. peanut butPass me some of that gooberter. This goober-grease is grease, will ya ?
goose.
gone under See gone. goner [gona^]
someone or something
n.
finished or nearly finished. one's a goner. Toss goner, so
gonged
it
This
The horse was a
it.
had to be destroyed. mod. drug intoxicated. Bruno
[gorjd]
(Drugs. Originally on opium.)
found himself in the alley, gonged. Ernie was too gonged to stand up.
gonna ['gona or (Eye-dialect.
Used
effect.
examples of
goob rain
['gubren]
n.
a fool; a stupid
person. (Also a rude term of address.) What silly goobrain put sugar in the
shaker? Look, goobrain, think about a while. You'll catch on.
salt
mod. thoroughly something. (Where something is an ad-
in writing only for
in the
stale.
good and something
'gunajp/ir. "going to."
Used
where he became a goober-grabber in no One of the local gooberall. grabbers took us to a peanut boil. time at
this
What time you gonna be I'm gonna get you, you little
jective.) [J lam really good and mad at We are good and ready you for that. to do something about it.
dictionary.)
home? dickens!
gonzo
[ganzo]
person.
1.
n.
a
Some gonzo
silly is
or foolish
good buddy
n. a friend; a partner. (Citizens band radio. Also a term of address.) Well, good buddy, what's new with you? John 's my good buddy.
on the phone
asking for the president of the universe.
I'm out. 2. mod. crazy. totally gonzo! Who drew
Tell the gonzo
The guy is this gonzo picture of me?
Good
exclam. "That was a good
call!
Good
decision!"
picked the
right
I guess this call,
n. some sticky substance; gunk. What is this goo on my shoe? There is some sort of goo on my plate. Is that meant to be my dinner?
Walter!
call,
company
was Jane's
You
to deal with.
choice.
Good
Jane.
goo [gu]
goo-goo eyes [ gugu aiz] n. flirtatious eyes. (Often with make.) Mary was making goo-goo eyes at Sam. Who's the chick over there with the goo-goo eyes?
goob
[gub]
1. n.
a pimple. (Short for
The goobs are taking over my whole face. / have the world's greatest goob right on the end of my nose. 2. n. a guber.)
nerd; a simpleton. (See also guber.) Don't be a goob. Come to the party with me. Gary is such a goob. Why can't he do anything right?
goober See guber.
who
picks
heard.)
"That is good!" (Old, but Everyone is here on time!
Good deal!
Good deal! My tax refund
still
deal!
peanuts.
n.
some-
(Typically
someone
native to Georgia where peanuts are grown. From guber.) My
nephew moved from Chicago
to Atlanta,
n.
just arrived!
good-for-nothing 1. mod. worthless. (Usually having to do with a person.) Let's get rid of this good-for-nothing car right now. Tell your good-for-nothing brother to find another place to live. 2. n. a worthless person. (Also a rude term of address.) Tell the good-for-nothing to leave. Look, you good-for-nothing. Go out and get a job.
Good
golly,
grief!";
Miss Molly! exclam. "Good
Good
"Wow!"
Molly! This place golly,
goober-grabber [gubaKjraeba1 ]
one
Good
Miss Molly,
is
golly,
a mess!
Miss
Good
that's awful!
Good heavens! exclam. "My goodness!" (A mild exclamation of amazement, shock, etc.) Good heavens! I didn expect you to be here. Good heavens! 't
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man
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good Joe
good Joe n. a good fellow. Fred's a little slow on the uptake, but he's a good Frank's a good Joe. He'll help
Joe.
us.
Gooey is
a (good) looker
n.
a good-looking person.
Fred is not exactly a good looker, but he is pleasant enough. Mary is really a looker. I sure would like to go out with her.
good old boy and good ole boy n. a good guy; a dependable companion. (Folksy.) Old Tom is a good old boy. He'll help. One of these good ole boys will give you a hand. good ole boy See the previous entry.
time Charley.
Who would
had? making a
Charley
is
believe the
Some good-time
trouble he's
lot
of noise.
good-time it tr. to party; to spend money and have a good time. You're always good-timing it. Don't you ever study? / just want to good-time it for the rest of
lot less
memory
to run.
Many new
goof [guf] 1. n. a foolish oaf; a goofy person. Sometimes I'm such a goof I really messed up. Don't be a goof Get with it. 2. in. to use heroin or some other addictive drugs without intending to
become
addicted; to play around
Gert spent
(with heroin). (Drugs.) the first few years just goofing.
She was
and you know what that leads in. to scratch, nod, and slobber
goofing, 3.
after an injection of heroin. (Drugs.)
She just rocks and goofs for hours. She has been goofing for an hour. 4. and goof up in. to make a blunder. Whoops, I goofed! This time, you goofed. 5. n. a blunder; an error. Who made this silly gooP This goof is yours,
not mine.
goof around See the following entry.
and goof around in. to waste Quit goofing off. Get busy. Stop goofing around. 2. n. a time-waster; Pete is such a jerk. (Usually goof-off.) I'm no goof-off, but I am a goof-off! no scholar either.
goof off
my life.
GUI is a technical acro-
computer users find it much easier to use a gooey than to type in commands.
to.
good-time Charley n. a man who is always trying to have a good experience; an optimist. Wally is such a good-
slang;
nym. See also WIMP.) Some of the older programs that lack a gooey require
1.
time.
good-time (Drugs.)
man
man n. a man who sells drugs. Max is the main good-time
in this
wants to see hind bars.
neighborhood. The fuzz all the good-time men be-
prank on someone in a deHey, don't goof on me. I'm
goof on someone
good
trip 1. n. a
good session with L.S.D.
some other drug. (Drugs.) Paul had a good trip, but he looks like the devil. One good trip deserves another. At least that's what my guru says.
someone;
in.
to play a
to involve
or
ception.
said he
The kid goofed on Chuck, your buddy! and he thought it was a pretty good joke.
2. n.
any good time.
a good
class, this
This meeting was
Compared one is a good trip.
trip.
to the last
goody two-shoes n. someone who tries to behave better than anyone else. (Also a term of address.) Well, goody twoshoes, so you decided to come sit with us. Vm no goody two-shoes. I just like to keep my nose clean.
and GUI n. terface." (A type
gooey
a "graphical user inof computer control system that uses an orderly layout on the screen with icons and menus that are controlled by a computer mouse.
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goof-proof 1. mod. foolproof; not sub/ want a goof-proof ject to misuse. This scheme is not goofscheme. Now, this proof, but it's pretty sound. time I've made it goof-proof 2. tr. to make something foolproof; to take action to see that something cannot be
misused. scheme. proofed by
I'll
See
try
to
if this
goof-proof my can be goof-
Monday evening.
goof something up and goof up on someNow thing tr. to mess something up. it up this time. CD / hope I don goof up the report again. d / hope I don goof up on the report again.
don't goof 't
't
goopy
goombah
goof up See goof. goof up on something See goof something up. goofball
and
goofer
n.
a stupid person;
You are such a
Chuck
silly
goofball.
mately from trust
him.
goomer See gomer. 1. n. a stupid person; a fool. Oh, Watty, you're such a goon someTodd is a silly goon, but he's a times.
of fun at parties. 2. n. a hooligan; a thug or bodyguard. (Underworld.) Call Bruno is one of Mr. Big's goons. off your goons! lot
goon platoon
a platoon of misfits; a
n.
platoon that
goofer Set goofball.
done
Where that little goofus I use to pry open these
goofus [gufss]
1. n.
a gadget.
Here's just the
little
goofus
you're looking for. 2. and goopus n. a foolish oaf. (Also a term of address.)
You're just acting like a goofus. Hey, goopus! Come here!
Be
serious!
goofy
[
gufi] 1.
mod.
silly.
Stop acting
What will the neighbors say? You are really a goofy chick. 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. Wow, is she goofy! They went out and got themselves good and goofy. so goofy!
googaw Seegeegaw.
is
Chuck
is
n.
a foolish oaf.
its
errors.
Which
again!
side
is
the goon-
platoon on?
goon squad 1. n. an organized group of thugs; a gang of toughs. (Underworld.) Bruno and his goon squad are lurking about. The goon squad Mr. Big sent around scared the devil out of Max. 2. Here comes the goon n. the police. My old buddy on squad. Watch out! the goon squad tells me there'll be some action over on Maple Street tonight.
Wayne dad went loco and grounded him. His date was gooned by ten, and he had to take her
gooned [gund] mod. drunk.
came home gooned, and
his
guna^] n. a term for an Asian. [ (Derogatory. Military.) These gooners sure can cook. See if one of the gooners will show you how to do it.
gooner
gook [guk or guk] 1. n. a slimy substance; a sediment or residue. There was a lot of gook in my crankcase. Too much of that gook will ruin your 2.
it
noted for
Well, the goon-platoon's
home.
googly-eyed See goggle-eyed.
engine.
my goombah. lean
He's
goon [gun]
goofed up.
cans?
goombah!
Hey,
Italian.)
(Military.)
is
n. a buddy; a trusted term of address. Ulti-
acts Ijke a goofer, but he's
it.
goofed (up) 1. mod. messed up; out of order. All my papers are goofed up. Everything on my desk is goofed. Who's been here? 2. mod. confused; distraught. I'm sort of goofed up today. I think / I'm coming down with something. was up too late last night, and now I'm all
gumbo]
How goes it?
a fool. really with
[
friend. (Also a
Wow,
turning into a real gook!
goop and goup [gup] get
n. slop;
gunk; bad
You
/ refuse to eat this goop.
food.
used
to this
goup
after a while.
Don
't be such a gook, you twit! 3. n. a tramp. Some old gook was asking for a handout. Give the gook some food and wish him well. 4. n. a prostitute. Some old gook was standing around with too much leg on view. There are a lot of gooks around here in the center of town. 5. n. a derogatory nickname for various East Asians. (Crude.)
Nobody wanted the gooks.
go to war against Let the gooks fight it out to
amongst themselves.
guphed]n. an inflamed pim[ (Patterned on blackhead.) Ye gods! I'm covered with goopheads. You ought to see the goophead on your
goophead ple.
nose.
goopus Sec goofus. goopy
[
gupi] mod.
just love
goopy
gummy;
desserts.
syrupy. This
is
/
not
There is some goopy goopy enough. stuff coming out of the car's engine.
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goose
goose 1. n. a silly oaf; an oaf. Oh, I'm such a silly goose! What a goose you are! 2. tr. to (attempt to) poke something, such as a finger, in someone's anus. Freddy tried to goose me! Don't goose me! 3. n. an attempt to goose someone. (As in sense 2.) Harry is a master of the rude goose. He tried to give me a goose. 4. tr. to rev up an engine; to press down hard on the
Why
accelerator of a car.
don't you
goose the thing and see how fast it'll go? Don't goose it too much. 5. n. an act of suddenly pressing down the accelerator of a car. Give it a good goose and see what happens. One more goose, but don 't hold it down so long.
goose egg 1. n. a score of zero. We got a goose egg in the second inning. // was double goose eggs for the final score. 2. n. a bump on the head. You 've got quite a goose egg there. / walked into a door and got a big goose egg on my forehead. 3.
n.
a failure; a zero. (Similar
The outcome was a real goose egg. A total mess. The result of three weeks' planning is one big goose to sense 1.)
eggn.
any gummy, sticky
substance: syrup, gravy, soup, etc.
Do
you want some of this wonderful goozlum on your ice cream ? Just keep putting that goozlum on my spuds. gopher and gofer
1. n. someone and brings them back. (From go for. ) You got a gopher who can go get some coffee? Send the
who goes
[
gofa1 ]
for things
gofer out for cigarettes. 2. n. a dupe; a pawn; an underling. The guy's just a
He has no say in anything. I'll send a gopher over to pick up the papers.
gopher.
as a
Steroids build muscle tissue rapidly.)
Andy
ball n. a baseball pitch that
home
run.
(When
batter will "go for" home.)
it
is
Do
all
Wilbur hit
another long gopher ball straight across center field. The center fielder did a dive over the fence trying to get the gopher
hold of some
those muscle-bound creatures
v
gorilla pills
See
gorilla biscuits.
gork [gork] 1. n. a fool; a dupe. Martin acts like such a gork sometimes. The gorks are taking over the world! 2. and phr. an alleged hospital chart notation of the diagnosis "God only
GORK
knows." (Hospitals.)
really
Mr. Kelly
down
/ see old
again with a hundred
in
is
complaints. His chart says
He's
GORK.
with gork again. 3.
tr.
to give
a patient sedation. (Hospitals.)
Dr.
Wilson says to gork the patient in 226. He'll quiet down after we gork him.
gorked (out)
[gorkt
.
.
.]
mod. heavily
sedated; knocked out. (Hospitals.)
Once more
was gorked, he was The guy in 226 is
the patient cooperative.
totally
gorked out now.
gospel (truth)
n.
the honest truth.
believe me.
It's the gospel truth! speaks nothing but gospel. You can trust him.
He
gotcha ['gatja] l.phr. "I got you!"; "I've / caught you!" (Usually Gotcha!) Ha, gotcha, and you can 't get away. ha! Gotcha! Come here, you little dickens. 2. n. an arrest. (Underworld.) The cop reached out, grasped Bruno's shoulder,
and made the gotcha.
It
was
a fair gotcha. Bruno was nabbed, and he went along quietly. 3. phr. "I understand Gotcha! Thanks for telling me. you." Seven pounds, four ounces? Gotcha!
hit
the
to get
take gorilla juice?
I'll tell
is
hit,
wanted
really
gorilla juice, but his parents said no.
You gotta
goozlum [guztam]
gopher
gorilla juice n. steroids. (Bodybuilding.
gouch the
everybody.
off [gautj
.
.
.]
in.
to pass out under
influence of drugs.
After taking the
After the
gouch
fix,
stuff,
(Drugs.)
Gary gouched
off.
Gert waited patiently to
off.
ball.
goup See^oop. gorilla biscuits
and
gorilla pills n.
phetamines. (Drugs.) those gorilla
pills.
gorilla biscuits.
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am-
Tracy is big on Stay away from
gourd [gord]
n.
the head.
and got a nasty blow on
/ raised up the gourd.
My gourd aches something awful.
grass
goy [goi]
1. n.
(From Hebrew.
a gentile.
But the goys can do anything they want on SunLeave that kind of thing to the day! goys. 2. mod. gentile; non-Jewish.
Not
necessarily derogatory.)
Goy
/ don't care for that goy stuff.
n.
Keep your
granddad
Wash your grubby
Tom
the hands.
grabbers to yourself.
grabbers before coming to the table.
little
grade-grubber 1. n. an earnest, hardworking student. (In the way a pig roots Martin is or grubs around for food.) a grade-grubber and a real hard worker. // there are too in
a
class,
it
many grade-grubbers
will really
throw off the grad-
ing scale. 2. n. a student
who flatters the
teacher in hopes of a higher grade. Toward the end of a semester, my office is
A
filled with grade-grubbers.
few
grade-grubbers help assure old professors that the world
not really changing at
is
about closing
dull
n.
old-fashioned; out-of-date. just a
is
working hard at hopes of a high grade.
1.
one's studies in
n.
If all you 're here for is grade-grubbing, you 're going to miss a lot. Get a hobby. All grade-grubbing in college is no good. 2. n. flattering a teacher in hopes of a higher grade. Some teachers don mind a lot of grade-grubbing. So you've come in to do some gradegrubbing. 3. mod. having to do with students who are only concerned with
silly
and old-fashioned.
a granddad. Live a
or oldest of
all;
granddad. He is Don 't be such
little.
(grand)daddy (of them
all) n.
the biggest
the patriarch.
This
old fish is the granddaddy of them all. This one is the daddy. Been here since the place
was
built.
to make oneself conStop grandstanding Sally. Everyone can see you. Don't you just hate the way that Pat grandstands all the time?
grandstand
in.
spicuous.
grandstand play
all.
grade-grubbing
becomes
time, this place
Grand Central Station.
pickles are sort of blah.
grabbers
Grand Central Station n. any busy and hectic place. (From Grand Central Station in New York City— a very busy This place is Grand Central place.) At just Station on a Friday night.
n.
something done ex-
ceedingly well to impress an audience The grandor a group of spectators.
stand play caught the attention of the crowd just as they were leaving. He tried one final grandstand play, but the auience continued to give him the raspberry.
't
getting high grades.
Grade-grubbing
college kids are driving
me
crazy.
Two grade-grubbing seniors came in and begged
[
graed3uet]
in.
to
move from
grape(s)
n.
champagne; wine. (Compare
These grapes are great! of the grapes for me. It tickles
to berries.)
me to change their grades.
graduate [ graed3U3t] 1. n. a person experienced in life, especially sexually experienced. Tracy is a graduate. Nothing is new to her. You need someone who is a graduate for this kind of a job. 2.
mod. alcohol intoxicated; drunk on wine. After the reception, Hank found himself a little grape shot. Man, is that guy ever grape shot! How can he hold enough to get that way?
grape shot
casual
No more my nose.
Fred had grapes of wrath n. wine. taken a little too much of the grapes of wrath. How about another dose of the grapes of wrath?
drug use to addiction. (Drugs.) Gert graduated to smack after only a year Pete graduated and of skin-popping. went into treatment all in the same month.
grapevine n. a mouth-to-mouth com/ heard on the munications network.
G n. one thousand dollars. That car probably cost about twenty
grass 1. n. marijuana. (Drugs and now widely known.) These kids manage
grand and grand.
Four Gs for that thing?
grapevine that
Sam
is
The grapevine was
moving to the east. right.
He
's
already
left.
to find this grass
somewhere.
Almost
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grass party
everybody knows that grass means marin. lettuce; salad greens. (See also rabbit food.) / could use a little
juana. 2.
more some
my
grass in
Do you
diet.
want
dressing on your grass?
grass party n. a marijuana-smoking party. (Drugs.) The goon squad raided Pete's grass party without any warning.
have a grass
Sally tried to
party, but
didn 't have any grass.
gravy train n. a job that brings in a steady supply of easy money or gravy. This kind ofjob is a real gravy train. The gravy train is just not for me.
Graybar Hotel and Graystone College n. a jail; a prison. The two cops had spend two years in Graybar Hotel with the inmates they had caught over the past few years. Max has graduated from Graystone College three times to
some of
in the last ten years.
grasser See the following entry.
grayhound grasshead and grasser; grasshopper n. a marijuana smoker. (Drugs.) The grassheads are taking over this neighborhood. Imagine, a seven-year-old
[for a black] to date
in.
Cau-
Somebody said you were
grayhounding. grayhounding.
Is that
so?
/
am
not
Graystone College See Graybar Hotel.
grasser!
GR&D
grasshopper See the previous entry. grassroots
1.
common people, We really
the
n.
especially rural people.
haven't heard anything
from
the grass-
The grassroots isn't organized on most issues. 2. mod. having to do with or originating with the comroots yet.
mon
casians.
people.
A grassroots movement
pushed Senator Del Monte toward nomination.
the
Politicians love to create
interj. "Grinning, running, and ducking." (Describes what one might be doing after having written a mischie-
vous message on an electronic bulletin
Used in electronic mail and computer bulletin board messages. Sometimes enclosed, . Not pronounced aloud.) I'm GR&D, but I guess that you got I'm glad I said it. just the kind of answer that you deserve. board.
grassroots movements.
protection money; bribery n. money. (See also grease someone's palm.) Rocko was in charge of making sure that enough grease was spread See that the comaround city hall. missioner of the park district gets a little
grease
grave-dancer n. someone who profits over someone else's misfortune. (From dance on someone's grave.) / don't want to seem like a grave-dancer, but his defeat places me in line for a promotion. The guy's a grave-dancer. Anything to get ahead.
gravel-pounder
Army and
the
The
life
n.
an infantry soldier. really want to join
Do you
(Military.)
be a gravel-pounder?
of a gravel-pounder is not forme.
graveyard shift
n.
the night shift of work
in a factory, usually starting at
about
midnight. (Compare to swing shift.) I'd prefer not to work the graveyard shift.
The pay yard shift.
is
pretty
good on the grave-
money; easy profit. came in was pure gravy— no expenses and no materials costs at all. After I pay expenses,
gravy
n.
extra or easy
Virtually every cent that
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is
pure gravy.
grease to help us get the contract. / took grease monkey n. a mechanic. my car to my favorite grease monkey who says I need a new something or other. How much money does a grease monkey
make? grease someone's palm tr. to pay some/ had to grease the clerk 's one a bribe. Are palm in order to get the job done.
you
trying to grease
my palm?
grease the skids tr. to help prepare for the success or failure of someone or something. (Compare to put the skids Ray under someone or something.) set
out to grease the skids for the right
things to happen.
We need someone to
grease the skids for the Wilson contract.
greldg