AMERICAN SLANG COLLECTION
? ace
? He's an ace reporter.
? MEANING
? very good
? action
? Do you know where the action is in this town?
? MEANING
? excitement
? airhead
? My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
? MEANING
? stupid person
? all wet
? Your ideas about politics are all wet.
? MEANING
? completely wrong
? all-nighter
? I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter.
? MEANING
? after studying all night.
? ammo
? The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo.
? MEANING
? ammunition
? antifreeze
? I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
? MEANING
? liquor
? armpit
? This town is really an armpit.
? MEANING
? undesirable place
? awesome
? What an awesome sunset.
? MEANING
? great
? bad
? Wow, that was really a bad movie.
? MEANING
? intense
? barf
? He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
? MEANING
? vomitted
? bashed
? The boat was bashed beyond recognition.
? MEANING
? crushed
? beat
? After working all day I am really beat.
? MEANING
? exhausted
? beemer
? He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in.
? MEANING
? B.M.W. car
? bench
? He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
? MEANING
? taken out of the game
? bent
? It's OK. Don't get so bent.
? MEANING
? angry
? bent out of shape
? Don't get so bent out of shape.
? MEANING
? become upset
? big gun
? The president brought two big guns to the meeting.
? MEANING
? powerful people
? big mouth
? Shut up! You really have a big mouth.
? MEANING
? talk too much
? big stink
? The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
? MEANING
? big issue
? blade
? He carried a ten inch blade with him.
? MEANING
? knife
? blimp
? I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel.
? MEANING
? very fat person
? blow
? I'm going to blow out of here now.
? MEANING
? leave
? blow
? He blew all his money gambling.
? MEANING
? lost
? blow a fuse
? Hey, don't blow a fuse.
? MEANING
? lose your temper.
? blow one's cool
? Calm down. Don't blow your cool.
? MEANING
? become angry
? blown away
? I was blown away by his donation of a million dollars.
? MEANING
? greatly impressed
? bomb
? The movie was a bomb.
? MEANING
? bad
? bombed
? The driver of the car was bombed.
? MEANING
? intoxicated
? bonkers
? I think I am going bonkers.
? MEANING
? crazy
? boo-boo
? If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
? MEANING
? mistake
? booze
? I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
? MEANING
? alcohol
? bread
? I need some bread to pay for my car.
? MEANING
? money
? break
? A lucky break helped him get the job.
? MEANING
? opportunity
? break it up
? Break it up, or I will call the police.
? MEANING
? stop
? bring-down
? The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down.
? MEANING
? depressing
? buck
? Do you have a buck I can borrow?
? MEANING
? dollar
? bummed
? I was really bummed after I heard the news.
? MEANING
? depressed
? bummer
? My trip to New York was a bummer.
? MEANING
? bad experience
? bust
? The whole idea was a bust.
? MEANING
? failure
? buy it
? If you don't slow down, you're going to buy it in a car accident.
? MEANING
? die
? call
? The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come.
? MEANING
? prediction
? can
? Do you know where the can is?
? MEANING
? bathroom
? carb
? My motorcycle's carb is out of adjustment.
? MEANING
? carburetor
? catch some rays
? I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays.
? MEANING
? get some sunshine.
? catch some Z's
? I need to catch some Z's before I go on my trip.
? MEANING
? get some sleep
? cheesy
? That is really a cheesy looking outfit.
? MEANING
? cheap
? chicken
? Don't be a chicken.
? MEANING
? coward
? chintzy
? That really was a chintzy present you got him.
? MEANING
? cheap
? chow down
? I need to find a place to chow down.
? MEANING
? eat a lot
? clip
? Watch out or they will clip you at that bar.
? MEANING
? cheat
? clunker
? I can't go on a date in that clunker.
? MEANING
? old car
? cold fish
? My date for the dance was a cold fish.
? MEANING
? dull
? collar
? I knew they would collar the robber sooner or later.
? MEANING
? arrest
? come up for air
? He has to come up for air or he will die from exhaustion.
? MEANING
? take a break
? con
? Don't try to con me.
? MEANING
? deceive
? cool
? This is a really cool place to work.
? MEANING
? good
? cool down
? Things should cool down in a day or two.
? MEANING
? calm down
? cop
? How did you get the road sign? I copped it.
? MEANING
? robbed
? cop
? The cop showed me his badge.
? MEANING
? policeman
? couch potato
? He is a couch potato.
? MEANING
? lazy person
? crack open a bottle
? Let's crack open a bottle for his birthday.
? MEANING
? open
? cram
? I need more time to cram for the test.
? MEANING
? study hard
? cream
? Our team creamed them badly.
? MEANING
? beat
? croak
? I feel like I am going to croak.
? MEANING
? die
? cruise
? The skier was cruising down the hill
? MEANING
? going very fast
? cuffs
? He put the cuffs on the killer.
? MEANING
? handcuffs
? cushy
? He has a really cushy job.
? MEANING
? easy
? cut
? Could you cut my whiskey with a little water?
? MEANING
? dilute
? cut out
? It is late. I have to cut out.
? MEANING
? leave
? damage
? Lets get the bill and find out the damage.
? MEANING
? cost
? dead
? This disco is really dead tonight.
? MEANING
? quiet
? deck
? He was decked in the fight.
? MEANING
? knocked down
? deep pockets
? Her boyfriend has deep pockets.
? MEANING
? is a good source of money
? dicey
? Since the weather is a little dicey, I won't go today.
? MEANING
? chancy
? dirty
? I hear that it's a dirty movie.
? MEANING
? an obscene
? ditch
? I'll ditch my younger brother with my grandmother.
? MEANING
? leave
? do a snow job on
? Don't try to do a snow job on me.
? MEANING
? deceive
? dope
? He is such a dope.
? MEANING
? stupid person
? dope
? There are a lot of dope dealers around here.
? MEANING
? drug
? dork
? He is such a dork.
? MEANING
? strange person
? dough
? I need some dough before I can go Christmas shopping.
? MEANING
? money
? down
? Let's go to a bar and down a few beers.
? MEANING
? drink quickly
? drag
? Doing homework on the weekend is a drag.
? MEANING
? boring
? dynamite
? This drink is really dynamite.
? MEANING
? powerful; great
? earful
? My grandmother gave me an earful about the neighborhood.
? MEANING
? a lot of gossip
? easy mark
? The Japanese are an easy mark because they usually carry cash.
? MEANING
? likely victims
? eat
? The problem is really eating away at me.
? MEANING
? bothering
? excellent
? That's excellent man.
? MEANING
? fine
? face-off
? The two sides were headed for a nasty face-off.
? MEANING
? confrontation
? far-out
? This music is really far-out.
? MEANING
? great
? fix
? The addict needs another fix.
? MEANING
? dose of drugs
? flaky
? He is too flaky to do the work.
? MEANING
? unreliable
? flashback
? At the wedding he had a flashback of his old girlfriend.
? MEANING
? remembered
? flick
? I haven't seen a flick in a long time.
? MEANING
? movie
? flip out
? He flipped out when he heard that his mother had been killed.
? MEANING
? lost control
? flip side
? What kind of music do you have on the flip side of the tape?
? MEANING
? other side
? fox
? His older sister is a fox.
? MEANING
? very attractive
? foxy
? She is a foxy lady.
? MEANING
? sexy
? freebie
? The pillow was a freebie
? MEANING
? free
? get into something
? I got into gardening in high school.
? MEANING
? became seriously interested in
? get it
? I listened to the joke twice, but I still don't get it.
? MEANING
? understand
? get with it
? If you don't get with it, we will never finish this work.
? MEANING
? hurry up
? gig
? I have a gig on Saturday night from 7:00 to 10:00.
? MEANING
? job
? glitch
? This computer program has a glitch.
? MEANING
? defect
? glitzy
? This is a pretty glitzy hotel to be staying in.
? MEANING
? fashionable
? go
? Let me have a go at solving the problem.
? MEANING
? try
? go bananas
? I am going to go bananas if I don't have a vacation soon.
? MEANING
? go crazy
? go down
? What is going down?
? MEANING
? happening
? goof
? I am really a goof at times.
? MEANING
? fool
? goof up
? I really goofed up when I painted my room green.
? MEANING
? made a serious mistake
? goofy
? You are always acting goofy these days.
? MEANING
? silly
? gourd
? Use your gourd to figure out what is happening.
? MEANING
? head
? grand
? His salary is twenty grand.
? MEANING
? thousand dollars
? grass
? Lots of students smoke grass in the dormitory.
? MEANING
? marijuana
? gravy
? This job is pure gravy.
? MEANING
? easy money
? groovy
? This music is groovy.
? MEANING
? pleasant
? gross
? Picking your nose is really a gross habit.
? MEANING
? disgusting
? gross-out
? The party was a gross-out.
? MEANING
? digusting time
? grub
? Where is the best place to get some grub around here?
? MEANING
? food
? grubby
? Those clothes are too grubby to wear to the party.
? MEANING
? unclean and untidy
? grungy
? That is a really grungy jacket.
? MEANING
? dirty
? gut
? He got shot in the gut.
? MEANING
? stomach.
? gut
? The gut issue is about what we are going to do now.
? MEANING
? basic
? guts
? It takes a lot of guts to give the boss your true opinion.
? MEANING
? courage
? hairy
? That was a hairy plane trip. I am glad the storm is over.
? MEANING
? dangerous
? hammer
? Put the hammer to the floor or we will be late for the wedding.
? MEANING
? accelerator
? hang it up
? I have decided to hang up my teaching job.
? MEANING
? quit
? hang loose
? Just hang loose for another few days.
? MEANING
? relax
? hang tough
? We need to hang tough on our decision.
? MEANING
? stick with
? hardware
? The police were surprised by all the hardware the gang members had.
? MEANING
? weapons
? have a buzz on
? I had a buzz on after the third martini.
? MEANING
? was slightly intoxicated
? have good vibes
? I have good vibes about our new secretary.
? MEANING
? feel good about
? have it all together
? Recently I don't have it all together.
? MEANING
? feel mentally all there.
? heave
? I heaved up on the floor.
? MEANING
? vomited
? high
? The teenagers look high to me.
? MEANING
? intoxicated on drugs or alcohol
? hip-shooter
? He is such a hip-shooter.
? MEANING
? always talking without thinking
? history
? I don't have any idea where my old boyfriend is. He's history.
? MEANING
? something in the past
? hit
? Your proposal was a hit with the boss.
? MEANING
? successful
? hole up
? I had to hole up for three days because the police were looking for me.
? MEANING
? hide
? honcho
? The honcho says that we are going to have to give up two days of our vacation.
? MEANING
? boss
? hooker
? Her clothes make her look like a hooker.
? MEANING
? prostitute
? hot
? The police stopped them because they though the car was hot.
? MEANING
? stolen
? huffy
? I will do it soon so please don't get huffy.
? MEANING
? angry
? hungry
? If you are not hungry, you won't get ahead in the business.
? MEANING
? eager to make money
? hustle
? If you don't hustle, we will be late again.
? MEANING
? hurry up
? hyped
? The fans were all hyped up for the football game.
? MEANING
? excited
? hyper
? Don't get hyper about what she told you. You know it isn't true.
? MEANING
? over excited
? I.D.
? Can you show me some I.D. please?
? MEANING
? identification
? in
? The tie you are wearing is really in.
? MEANING
? fashionable
? in deep
? They are really in deep with each other.
? MEANING
? deeply involved
? in the bag
? Everything is in the bag. There is nothing to worry about.
? MEANING
? settled
? intense
? This is a very intense situation we are discussing.
? MEANING
? serious
? jam
? I am glad you got yourself out of that jam.
? MEANING
? trouble
? jerk someone around
? Recently it seems like everyone is jerking me around.
? MEANING
? wasting my time and causing me trouble
? jock
? My roommate is a jock for the basketball team.
? MEANING
? an athlete
? john
? The john really smells.
? MEANING
? bathroom
? joint
? Where is the closest joint to here.
? MEANING
? cheap bar
? joint
? He is good at rolling joints.
? MEANING
? marijuana cigarettes
? junkie
? Sam is a junkie.
? MEANING
? drug addict
? just off the boat
? He acts like he is just off the boat.
? MEANING
? naive
? keep one's cool
? He kept his cool when his house burned down.
? MEANING
? remained calm
? kegger
? I hear there is a kegger at John's house tonight.
? MEANING
? beer party
? kick
? I get a kick out of watching him paint.
? MEANING
? enjoy
? klutz
? He is a real klutz.
? MEANING
? stupid and clumsy person
? knock
? Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
? MEANING
? criticize
? knocked up
? My dog gets knocked up once a year.
? MEANING
? pregnant
? knockout
? Who was that knockout I saw you with last Friday?
? MEANING
? stunning person
? knuckle sandwich
? Shut up or I'll give you a knuckle sandwich.
? MEANING
? punch in the mouth
? kook
? Watch out for all the kooks in this neighborhood.
? MEANING
? strange people
? laid-back
? You need to be more laid-back.
? MEANING
? calm and relaxed
? lame
? That is really a lame excuse.
? MEANING
? an inadequate
? line
? I have heard that line a million times.
? MEANING
? story
? loser
? John is a loser.
? MEANING
? annoying and useless
? love handles
? I exercise every day, but I can't get rid of these love handles.
? MEANING
? rolls of fat around my stomach
? make waves
? Try not to make waves around the office.
? MEANING
? cause trouble
? maxed out
? I am maxed out at my work and need to rest.
? MEANING
? exhausted
? mean
? He plays a mean violin.
? MEANING
? performs well on
? mega
? I have mega amounts of tomatoes in my garden this summer.
? MEANING
? large
? megabucks
? He made megabucks when he sold his company.
? MEANING
? a lot of money
? knock
? Don't knock it if you can't do it any better.
? MEANING
? criticize
? mellow
? You need to mellow out and enjoy life.
? MEANING
? calm down and relax
? meltdown
? There has been a meltdown in the relationship between my parents and I.
? MEANING
? total collapse
? mickey mouse
? The homework the teacher gave us was mickey mouse.
? MEANING
? nonsense and a waste of time
? move on someone
? I am going to try to move on Sarah next Saturday.
? MEANING
? pick up and seduce
? mush
? That is total mush and you know it.
? MEANING
? nonesense
? nark
? Watch out for the narks in the airport.
? MEANING
? drug police
? neat
? That was a neat idea that you had.
? MEANING
? good
? negative
? There are too many negatives about the company merger.
? MEANING
? bad things
? nick
? The police nicked the shoplifter as he was leaving the store.
? MEANING
? arrested
? nip
? He took a nip out of the bottle.
? MEANING
? a quick drink
? no sweat
? It's no sweat to have the report in to you by Monday.
? MEANING
? no problem
? nuke
? I'll nuke our dinner in a few minutes.
? MEANING
? heat up in the microwave
? nuke
? Does that attack plane have any nukes?
? MEANING
? nuclear weapons
? nut
? I think that he is a nut.
? MEANING
? crazy person
? nuts
? You are completely nuts if you think I will go with you.
? MEANING
? crazy
? pad
? Have you found a pad yet?
? MEANING
? a place to live
? pain in the neck
? My wife's best friend is a pain in the neck.
? MEANING
? annoying
? paper-pusher
? My office is filled with paper-pushers.
? MEANING
? bureaucratic office workers
? party animal
? You're too old to be a party animal.
? MEANING
? love parties
? party-hearty
? We need to party-hearty because we just got a raise in salary.
? MEANING
? celebrate
? paw
? Get your paws off of my body.
? MEANING
? hands
? peanuts
? I am not going to work for peanuts.
? MEANING
? practically no money
? pickled
? He gets pickled after only one beer.
? MEANING
? intoxicated
? piece of cake
? Working on a computer for me is a piece of cake.
? MEANING
? easy to do
? pig
? He is a pig at parties.
? MEANING
? eats too much
? pig out
? Let's go to the restaurant and pig out.
? MEANING
? eat a lot or overeat
? pit stop
? Let's make a pit stop at the next rest area.
? MEANING
? stop and go to the bathroom
? plastered
? He drinks too much and is always plastered on the weekend.
? MEANING
? intoxicated
? pooped out
? He pooped out after we started to do the hard work.
? MEANING
? quit
? pop
? Shut up or I will pop you.
? MEANING
? hit
? pop for something
? It is my turn to pop for the doughnuts.
? MEANING
? buy
? pro
? He is really a pro at his work.
? MEANING
? professional
? prod
? Can you give me a gentle prod next week so I won't forget?
? MEANING
? reminder
? psyched up
? The players are really psyched up for the game on Friday.
? MEANING
? mentally ready
? psycho
? She is a psycho. She should be in a hospital.
? MEANING
? mentally ill
? puke
? I feel like I am going to puke.
? MEANING
? vomit
? push off
? I am going to push off now.
? MEANING
? leave
? put the moves on
? You should give up trying to put the moves on her. She is married.
? MEANING
? seduce
? put-on
? It was an elaborate put-on which I almost believed.
? MEANING
? deception
? quarterback
? Who is going to quarterback the meeting?
? MEANING
? lead
? quick buck
? I need to make a quick buck.
? MEANING
? some easy money
? rack
? I have to hit the rack by ten or I'll be tired in the morning.
? MEANING
? bed
? rack out
? I am going to rack out for two hours.
? MEANING
? sleep
? racket
? There sure was a lot of racket outside last night.
? MEANING
? noise
? rag
? I can't believe we still get this same old rag.
? MEANING
? newspaper
? rap
? We need to sit down and rap about a few things.
? MEANING
? talk about
? rathole
? When are you going to be able to move out of that rathole.
? MEANING
? run down place
? raw
? The raw office workers were not getting much done.
? MEANING
? new
? ream someone out
? The boss really reamed him out for his bad report.
? MEANING
? got angry with him
? red hot
? Your idea is really red hot.
? MEANING
? important
? repo
? Hey, don't repo my car. I will pay next week.
? MEANING
? repossess
? rinky-dink
? The circus was really rinky-dink.
? MEANING
? inferior
? riot
? The comedy program was a real riot.
? MEANING
? funny
? road hog
? That driver is a road hog.
? MEANING
? takes up too much of the road
? rocks
? Would you like your whiskey on the rocks?
? MEANING
? with ice
? rough time
? We have had a rough time this winter.
? MEANING
? hard time
? rug
? Is that a rug on his head?
? MEANING
? wig
? rug rat
? My sister has three rug rats.
? MEANING
? children
? rule
? My wife rules the house.
? MEANING
? dominates
? run off at the mouth
? He is always running off at the mouth.
? MEANING
? talking too much
? run out of gas
? The politician ran out of gas during the campaign.
? MEANING
? lost interest or momentum
? sack
? When did you hit the sack last night?
? MEANING
? go to bed
? scam
? Don't lose your money in some kind of scam.
? MEANING
? swindle
? scarf
? Since he hadn't eaten in a week, he scarfed down everything on his plate.
? MEANING
? ate quickly
? schmuck
? What a stupid schmuck.
? MEANING
? jerk
? screw around
? If you screw around all day at this work, you will have to come back again.
? MEANING
? waste time
? screw up
? If you screw up one more time, I will fire you.
? MEANING
? make a mistake
? sharp
? He is very sharp with numbers
? MEANING
? intelligent
? shot
? I'll give the puzzle another shot.
? MEANING
? try
? shot down
? Everyone shot down my idea at first, but later agreed that it was a good idea.
? MEANING
? disagreed with
? slammer
? The police threw them both in the slammer.
? MEANING
? jail
? smashed
? Try not to get smashed at the beer party.
? MEANING
? intoxicated
? smoke eater
? My father is a smoke eater.
? MEANING
? fireman
? split
? It is time to split and go see the movie.
? MEANING
? leave
? spook
? The cows were spooked by the howling of the wolves.
? MEANING
? frightened
? spud
? Do you want rice or spuds for dinner?
? MEANING
? potatoes
? square
? My father looks square in his jacket.
? MEANING
? old-fashioned
? steamed up
? Don't get so steamed up over the issue.
? MEANING
? angry
? stink
? This whole operation stinks.
? MEANING
? is repulsive
? straight
? I want you to give me a straight answer.
? MEANING
? honest
? stressed
? I am really stressed by all the recent world events.
? MEANING
? upset
? sucker
? Don't be a sucker.
? MEANING
? be deceived
? take a hike
? I am tired of all your complaining. Take a hike.
? MEANING
? leave
? taken
? He was taken for all his money at the casino.
? MEANING
? cheated out of
? taking care of business
? I have been taking care of business.
? MEANING
? doing what I have to do
? threads
? Those look like expensive threads he is wearing.
? MEANING
? clothes
? tool around
? I don't want to tool around all night. It is time to go home.
? MEANING
? drive around
? totaled
? My car was totaled in the accident with the garbage truck.
? MEANING
? completely wrecked
? up
? He has been up ever since he met his new girlfriend.
? MEANING
? happy and cheerful
? up for grabs
? This is a sale. Everything is up for grabs.
? MEANING
? available.
? veg out
? I want to veg out in front of the television this evening.
? MEANING
? relax and do nothing
? vibes
? He really gives off good vibes.
? MEANING
? feelings
? wad
? You don't want to carry a wad like that with you in the big city.
? MEANING
? bundle of money
? waste
? After you waste him, throw the body in the river.
? MEANING
? kill
? wheels
? If you let me borrow your wheels, I'll go out and buy a pizza.
? MEANING
? car
? whiz
? He is a whiz at the computer.
? MEANING
? talented person
? wired
? I am really wired after drinking five cups of coffee.
? MEANING
? alert
? wussy
? Don't be such a wussy all the time. Say what you are thinking.
? MEANING
? weak person
? yukky
? This food tastes yukky
? MEANING
? bad
? zapped
? I am too zapped to help you right now.
? MEANING
? exhausted
? zip
? He knew zip about running the company.
? MEANING
? Nothing
? airhead: stupid person.
? "Believe it or not, he is really an airhead!"
? amigo: friend (from Spanish).
? "I met many amigos tonight."
? ammunition: toilet paper.
? "Help! We're completely out of ammunition!"
? antifreeze: alcohol.
? "I'm going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"
? armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
? "This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"
? ass [offensive] (1): backside.
? "I fell on my ass on the ski slopes."
? ass (2): an unworthy and hated person.
? "I cannot be friends when you act like an ass."
? awesome: great and impressive.
? "It is truly awesome here!"
? baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second World War until the early 1960s.
? "Bill Clinton was born in 1961, so he's considered a baby boomer."
? ball (1): a fun time.
? "I really had a ball in the party last night."
? ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.
? "After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher."
? bang (1): a very powerful thing.
? "Disneyland is really a bang!"
? bang (2): a powerful effect.
? "Japanese sake really has a bang!"
? barf (1): vomit.
? "My dog barfed all over the carpet."
? barf (2): vomit.
? "Don't step on the barf!"
? barf-out: a displeasing person or affair.
? "That restaurant was a real barf-out."
? bazillion: an infinite number of something.
? "Has Dennis really taught a bazillion students?"
? B-ball: basketball.
? "Do you wanna play b-ball with me?"
? beans: money.
? "I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans."
? beat: tired.
? "I'm really beat because I was awake all night."
? beemer: a BMW.
? "He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."
? biggie: something important.
? "I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it's no biggie. "
? biker: a motorcycle rider.
? "Mike used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident."
? ***** [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman.
? "My boss can be such a ***** sometimes."
? ***** [offensive] (2): complain.
? "Stop *****ing and finish your homework!"
? *****y [offensive]: moody.
? "I like him, even though he can be really *****y."
? bod: body.
? "Stalone has a great bod!"
? bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
? "If you works too hard, you must go bonkers!"
? booboo: a mistake.
? "I made a booboo on the last question of the exam."
? boob tube: television.
? "Benjamin is always in front of the boob tube."
? booze: alcohol.
? "The party was fun, even though there wasn't any booze."
? boss: excellent; great.
? "He's always totally boss!"
? bread: money.
? "Can I borrow some bread?"
? brew (1): coffee.
? "Every morning I need a fresh cup of brew."
? brew (2): beer.
? "Do you want another brew, dude?"
? brewski: beer.
? "I love drinking brewskies!"
? B.S.: bullshit; lies.
? "I'm tired of listening to your B.S."
? bull: bullshit; lie.
? "That's a bunch of bull!"
? bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
? "I don't like people that bullshit me"
? buns [possibly offensive]: the rear end; buttocks.
? "Don't stare at my buns!"
? bushed: extremely tired.
? "I'm completely bushed."
? butt: the buttocks.
? "Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!"
? catch some rays: get some sunshine.
? "Let's go to the beach and catch some rays."
? cheesy: cheap; outmoded.
? "Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?"
? chicken: coward.
? "Don't be such a chicken!"
? cool: excellent; superb.
? "He is no cool!"
? cooler, the: jail.
? "If you drink and drive, you'll end up spending time in the cooler."
? couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
? "Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"
? crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
? "My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."
? crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
? "Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"
? crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
? "I've had enough of your crap."
? deck: to hit someone.
? "His wife almost decked him when he returned home with lipstick on his shirt."
? dicey: unpredictable; risky.
? "Gambling is a dicey occupation."
? dinero: money (from Spanish).
? "I wish I had more dinero!"
? dirt: extremely bad person.
? "My ex-boyfriend was dirt."
? dirty: offensive; pornographic.
? "Stop looking at the pictures in that dirty magazine!"
? dorky: strange; peculiar.
? "If you keep acting so dorky, you'll never get a girlfriend!"
? dude: a male.
? "That's really cool, dude!"
? dynamite: powerful; excellent.
? "The speaker gave a dynamite presentation."
? dinosaur: something old fashioned or out of date.
? "I'd love to surf the Net, but unfortunately my computer is a dinosaur."
? el cheapo: something cheap.
? "Since I don't make much money, I always purchase the el cheapo brand."
? evil: great; excellent.
? "Your car is really evil!"
? eyeball: to stare long and hard at someone or something.
? "Bartlett eyeballed his daughter's new boyfriend."
? eyepopper: something or someone visibly astounding.
? "Wow, that girl is truly an eyepopper!"
? fab: fabulous.
? "His claim is really fab!"
? face-off: confrontation.
? "I think it's time we had a face-off."
? fart [offensive]: to expel intestinal gas.
? "It's embarrassing to fart on the first date."
? fender-bender: small accident.
? "This morning I had a fender-bender on the Ventura Freeway."
? flaky: unpredictable.
? "I waited four hours for my flaky friend to show up."
? flashback: sudden memory.
? "In Little Tokyo I had a flashback to my days living in Japan."
? flick: movie.
? "Let's go out tonight and watch a flick."
? fox: attractive, alluring person.
? "Is it true that Marian is a fox?"
? freebie: something that does not cost money.
? "My trip to New York was a freebie."
? French kiss [possibly offensive]: kissing with the tongue.
? "Berea's dog is always trying to French kiss her!"
? geek: someone who works too hard, is more intelligent than usual, and is slightly unattractive.
? "Bill Gates is kind of a geek."
? get it: to understand something.
? "Sorry, but I just don't get it."
? get naked [possibly offensive]: to completely relax and have a good time.
? "Let's get naked tonight!"
? glitch: flaw.
? "There must be a glitch in this softwware."
? go bananas: go slightly mad.
? "This project is causing me to go bananas!"
? gomer: a dumb person.
? "Stop acting like a gomer!"
? goof (1): a silly and foolish person.
? "What a goof you are!"
? goof (2): make a mistake.
? I really goofed on the test today."
? goof off (1): waste time.
? "Stop goofing off and help me clean the house!"
? goof-off (2): someone who wastes time and isn't serious.
? "A goof-off never does well in school"
? goof up: make a mistake.
? "Oh no! I really goofed up!"
? goofy: silly.
? "Kids always make me feel goofy!"
? grabbers: hands.
? "Have you washed your grabbers, Benjamin?"
? grand: one thousand dollars.
? "He's making over a hundred grand a year!"
? grass: marijuana.
? "Have you ever smoked grass?"
? grub: food.
? "Where's the grub?!"
? grubby: not clean.
? "I always feel grubby in the morning."
? grungy: unclean and stinky.
? "He's always grungy!"
? gut: a person's stomach; belly.
? "Look at him, he must be getting a big gut!"
? guts (1): courage.
? "It took a lot of guts to ask his boss for a raise."
? guts (2): the nature of something.
? "Let's get to the guts of the program!"
? hairy: difficult; dangerous.
? "The steep and windy road was really hairy."
? hang a left: make a left turn.
? "Hang a left at the next corner."
? hang a right: make a right turn.
? "Hang a right at the next corner."
? head: toilet.
? "I really need to use the head!"
? hep: sensible; informed.
? "He is really the heppest man in this town."
? hickey: a love bite on the skin.
? "Wow! Is that a hickey on your neck?"
? hip: sensible; informed.
? "He really tries hard to be hip."
? hooker [possibly offensive]: prostitute.
? "You'll find a lot of hookers in the red light district."
? horny [possibly offensive]: sexually stimulated; in the mood for sex.
? "Red wine seems to make my boyfriend horny. "
? hot (1): popular.
? "Brad Pitt is really hot now."
? hot (2): sexy.
? "Wow! Cindy Crawford is really hot!"
? humungous: really big.
? "American supermarkets are humungous."
? hungries, to have: be hungry.
? "I don't know about you, but I've got the hungries."
? hyper: overly excited.
? "Children often get hyper when they are tired."
? icky: unpleasant.
? "The food is really icky in the school cafeteria."
? I.D.: identification.
? "If you want to order a beer, you'll need your I.D."
? I'm outta here: I'm leaving; I'm departing.
? "Sorry, but I'm outta here, dude."
? in: fashionable.
? "Ray-Ban sunglasses are really in now."
? ivories: teeth.
? "Tom Cruise has really beautiful ivories."
? jack around [possibly offensive]: waste time.
? "Will you please stop jacking around?"
? jam, in a (1): trouble.
? "If you're in a jam, I promise to help you."
? jam (2): improvise (musically).
? "I'd love to jam with Bon Jovi!"
? jamming, to be : going well.
? "The party is really jamming!"
? jerk: stupid or annoying person.
? "How could you go out with such a jerk?"
? jillion: an immense number.
? "Do you really have a jillion problems?"
? jock: someone good at sports.
? "I've never been much of a jock."
? john: toilet.
? "Where's the john?"
? K (k): a thousand.
? "I could retire with 100 K (k)!"
? kick back: relax and enjoy.
? "I wish I could kick back at the beach today."
? kick off: die.
? "My dog finally kicked off."
? killer: something exceptional or great.
? "Wow, your boyfriend is killer!"
? knock: condemn.
? "Don't knock it unless you've tried it."
? knockout: beautiful woman; handsome man.
? "Benjamin is already a knockout!"
? kook: peculiar person.
? "Stop acting like a kook!"
? laid back: relaxed; calm.
? "I always feel laid back at the beach."
? lame: incompetent.
? "He is totally lame in the bed."
? lip: cheeky talk.
? "My students are always giving me lip!"
? loser: a bungling and worthless person.
? "Why are you dating such a loser?"
? love handles: excess fat around the waist.
? "Is it possible for Marple to lose his love handles?"
? luck out: to be lucky or fortunate.
? "You really luck out by visiting Tom's home!"
? make waves: cause problems.
? "Teachers don't like students to make waves."
? max, to the : maximum.
? "I'm happy to the max."
? mega: big.
? "American restaurants serve mega portions of food."
? megabucks: a large amount of money.
? "It takes megabucks to live in Japan."
? mellow: relaxed.
? "I'm feeling very mellow this evening."
? mickey-mouse: unimportant; time-wasting.
? "I'm sick of this mickey-mouse job."
? monkey bite: a kiss that leaves a mark on the skin.
? "I don't want any monkey bites tonight, okay?"
? munch out: to eat voraciously.
? "Let's munch out on a large pizza!"
? nada: nothing (from Spanish).
? "I know nada about politics."
? neat: cool; great.
? "Isn't my new car neat?"
? noid: someone that's paranoid.
? "Why are you so noid?"
? nuke (1): nuclear weapon.
? "This world had too many nukes."
? nuke (2): destroy; delete.
? "Sorry, but I accidentally nuked your e-mail message."
? nuke (3): cook something in the microwave oven.
? "Can you nuke this frozen pizza for me?"
? nut (1): odd or crazy person.
? "Why are you always acting like a nut?"
? nut (2): someone passionate about something.
? "I'm a nut about computers."
? nuts [offensive]: testicles.
? "Kick he in the nuts!"
? okay: decent.
? "My boss is an okay person."
? OK: decent.
? "Tom is an okay person."
? pad: someone's home.
? "Can I sleep at your pad tonight?"
? party: celebrate.
? "Let's party tonight!"
? party animal: someone that loves parties.
? "Tom has been known to sometimes be a party animal."
? paws: hands.
? "Get your paws off me!"
? peanuts: very little money.
? "I love my job, but the pay is peanuts."
? pee: to urinate.
? "I always have to pee after drinking beer."
? pickled: drunk.
? "He got pickled on vodka."
? pig out: eat too much.
? "Tom is famous for pigging out on chocolate ice cream."
? piss: to urinate.
? "My dog pissed on me!"
? pissed (off): angry; upset.
? "I'm really pissed (off) at you."
? plastered: drunk.
? "Why does he always get plastered?"
? pad: someone's home.
? "Can I sleep at your pad tonight?"
? poop, the (1): knowledge; information.
? "What's the poop on Michael Jackson?"
? poop [offensive] (2): defecation; shit.
? "Be careful not to step on dog poop."
? poop out: get tired and quit.
? "I got pooped out after spending eight hours at Disneyland."
? pot (1): toilet.
? "Who's on the pot?"
? pot (2): marijuana.
? "It's easy to buy pot in the big city."
? pro: someone who's good at something; professional.
? "She's really a pro at golf."
? psycho: crazy person.
? "Stay away from that psycho!"
? puke: vomit.
? "Alcohol makes some people puke."
? pumped (up): excited.
? "I'm really pumped (up) about her!"
? puss: the face.
? "My girlfriend slapped me right on the puss."
? quarterback: leader.
? "Tom is the quarterback of Tom's Cafe."
? quick and dirty: done fast, but not well.
? "The mechanic did a quick and dirty repair on my car."
? racket (1): noise.
? "Small kids can make a lot of racket."
? racket (2): something that's dishonest or deceptive.
? "The Tobacco Industry is quite a racket."
? racket (3): an occupation.
? "I've been in the company racket for fourteen years."
? rank: give someone a difficult time.
? "She's always ranking her teacher."
? rat: a despicable person.
? "I thought I loved you, but now I know you're really a rat."
? razz: annoy someone.
? "Will you please stop razzing me?"
? rear (end): buttocks.
? "Tom fell on his rear (end)."
? riot, a : something or someone very funny.
? "Jim Carrey is a riot!"
? rip off (1): stealing.
? "Someone ripped off my car."
? rip off (2): fraud.
? "I paid $10,000 for my computer. What a rip off!"
? rocking: great; excellent.
? "Tom's party is really rocking!"
? rubbish: nonsense; not true.
? "That rumor is a bunch of rubbish."
? rug rat: a child.
? "Tom has a couple of rug rats at home."
? runs, the: diarrhea.
? "Oh no! I've got the runs!"
? scarf: to eat.
? "I can easily scarf an entire banana split."
? screw up: to make a mistake.
? "I screwed up on the driving test, so I didn't pass."
? screw-up: a person who makes a mistake.
? "Why are you such a screw-up?"
? scum: a despicable individual.
? "Don't hang around with that kind of scum."
? shades: sunglasses.
? "Those are really cool shades!"
? shoot some hoops: play basketball.
? "Let's shoot some hoops!"
? silks: clothing.
? "Those are really awesome silks!"
? smarts: intelligence.
? "It takes a lot of smarts to become a doctor."
? smurfbrain: a dumb or stupid person.
? "Stop acting like a smurfbrain!"
? snookered: cheated.
? "I got snookered into buying swamp land in Florida."
? sofa spud: a person who watches too much television.
? "I'm usually a sofa spud on Sunday."
? solid (1): really good; cool.
? "Tom's party is totally solid!"
? solid (2): consecutive.
? "It's been raining for seven solid days."
? specs: eyeglasses.
? "I didn't know that you wore specs."
? split: to leave.
? "Let's split from here now."
? spunk: spirit.
? "She might be small, but she's got a lot of spunk."
? stoned (out): drunk from drugs or alcohol.
? "I'm really stoned (out), dude!"
? street smart: knowledgeable about city life.
? "Since Tom is from Los Angeles, he's very street smart."
? suck: to be bad and unacceptable.
? "That song really sucks!"
? technicolor yawn, to do a : vomit.
? "My dog just did a technicolor yawn all over the carpet!"
? thou: thousand.
? "I need to borrow a hundred thou."
? threads: clothing.
? "My wife spent $900 on new threads."
? ticker (1): the heart.
? "My grandfather has a bad ticker."
? ticker (2): a watch.
? "Wow! That's a really cool ticker!"
? tints: sunglasses.
? "You have to wear tints in California."
? totally: really; completely.
? "That's totally awesome, dude!"
? to the max: maximum.
? "I studied to the max."
? turkey (1): failure; flop.
? "Thank goodness that his speech is not a turkey!"
? turkey (2): dumb person.
? "Turkeys are not allowed to work for this company."
? turn-off: something that repulses a person.
? "Bad breath is a real turn-off."
? umpteen: many; countless.
? "I've asked you umpteen times to show me the money!"
? unlax: relax.
? "Tom needs to definitely unlax with his family."
? upchuck: vomit.
? "She got sick and upchucked three times."
? uptight: nervous; anxious.
? "Why are you so uptight?"
? vanilla (1): plain.
? "She drives a vanilla car."
? vanilla (2): Caucasian.
? "The Midwest is too vanilla for me."
? wad: roll of money.
? "It's dangerous to carry a big wad in your pocket."
? wasted: killed.
? "A lot of people get wasted in the streets of New York."
? wheels: car; motorcycle.
? "If you want to live in Los Angeles, you've got to get some wheels"
? whitebread: plain; boring.
? "The movie is definitely not whitebread!"
? whiz (1): someone who shows a special talent for something.
? "Einstein was a whiz in Physics."
? whiz [offensive] (2): to urinate.
? "I really have to take a whiz."
? wimpy: weak.
? "Don't be so wimpy!"
? winks, get some: sleep.
? "I really need to get some winks"
? wrongo: wrong.
? "That is totally wrongo!"
? yank (1): bother; harass.
? "Stop yanking me, okay?"
? Yank (2): a Yankee; an American.
? "Tom is a Yank."
? zero: an unimportant person.
? "If you don't work hard, you'll end up a zero."
? zip (1): nothing.
? "I don't know zip about you."
? zip (2): energy; vigor.
? "I need something that will give me more zip. "
? zit: pimple; acne.
? "Teens often have a lot of zits."
"crying wolf"
To cry wolf is to call for help when you are not really in danger. Example: "Mom, Dad! Can you come to my room? I think there is something under my bed!"
Reply: "Son, you just go back to bed, and stop crying wolf."
There is a story about a boy who liked to cry "Wolf!" pretending that he was going to be eaten by a wolf. When people came running to help him, they found the boy laughing because he was not really in danger. This happened a number of times until people stopped believing him when he cried, "Wolf!" Finally, the boy was attacked by a real wolf and no one came to save him because they all thought he was just crying wolf.
Example: "I'll be in the other room, so call me if you need me. But no crying wolf."
To cry wolf is to call others for help when you do not really need help. Crying wolf results in other people not believing you when you really do need their help.
Example: "Hey that kid on the other team fell down. He looks hurt." Reply: "Oh, not that kid. He's always crying wolf."
"practice makes perfect"
Practice makes perfect means that the more you practice, the better you will become. If you want to become great, then you should practice as much as possible.
Example: "See how fast you are getting better at the piano? Practice makes perfect."
To practice is to do something regularly. Perfect is the best you can be. Practice makes perfect means that the way to become the best is to practice often.
Example: "Do you know how a player like Larry Bird gets to be so good? By taking thousands of jump shots every day. Practice, practice, practice! Practice makes perfect."
Practice makes perfect is said to encourage people to keep practicing so they will become better at what they are doing.
Example: "Come on guys, do it again! I want to see you getting this right. Practice makes perfect!"
"better late (than never)"
Better late than never means that it is better to do something late than to never do it at all.
Example: "The movie has already started. Do you still want to go in?" Reply: "Sure. Better late than never!"
Better late than never is often used as a polite way to respond when a person says "sorry" for being late.
Example: "Sorry I was late for the meeting today. I got stuck in traffic." Reply: "That's okay. Better late than never."
Better late than never means that even if you are going to be late, you should still go ahead and do the thing, because it is better to do it late than to never do it at all.
Example: "I'm sorry it has taken me so long to return this book." Reply: "Better late than never."
"looking a gift horse in the mouth"
You are looking a gift horse in the mouth when you receive a gift and then you question the value of that gift.
Example: "This shirt you gave me is not my favorite brand." Reply: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth! That was the best they had."
You are like a person who has been given a horse as a gift (a gift-horse) and you are looking into the horse's mouth to see if it is in good health. Example: "Here is your drink." Reply: "Oh, I hate this kind." Answer: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
You should be thankful when you receive a gift, and not wish for something better. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth means don't measure the value of something that you have received for free.
Example: "Great interception!" Reply: "Yes, but I almost scored a touchdown." Reply: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
"beating a dead horse"
You are beating a dead horse when you insist on talking about something that cannot be changed.
Example: "I'd like to talk with you again about what happened." Reply: "Oh, come on. Let's not beat a dead horse."
Beating a dead horse is an action that has no purpose, because no matter how hard or how long you beat a dead horse, it is not going to get up and run. Example: "Let's not talk about it any more. Okay?" Reply: "You're right. We're just beating a dead horse."
To repeatedly bring up a particular topic with no chance of affecting the outcome is beating a dead horse.
Example: "Dad, are you sure we can't get a new computer for the upstairs?" Reply: "Son, we talked about this and the decision was 'no'. You are beating a dead horse."
"a piece of cake"
Something that is very easy to do is "a piece of cake".
Example: "Can you finish your homework in ten minutes?" Reply: "It will be a piece of cake."
"A piece of cake" is so easy to do that it is like eating a piece of cake. Example: "How was your test today?" Reply: "It was a piece of cake."
You say "piece of cake" to show how very easy it is for you to do something. Example: "I've always had a hard time studying history, but math is a piece of cake."
You are very confident that you can do something which you think is a piece of cake. Example: "Do you expect to win your tennis match today?" Reply: "It will be a piece of cake."
"going against the grain"
You go against the grain when you make life more difficult by acting against the wishes of others.
Example: "Why can't you just do it the way everyone else does? Why do you always have to go against the grain?"
Wood grows in a way that makes it easy to cut in one direction (with the grain) and hard to cut in the other direction (against the grain).
Example: "I jog at this track every day and there is always that one guy who has to go against the grain and run in the opposite direction."
To go against the grain is to do things in a way that is different from what is normal and accepted.
Example: "You can't always follow other people in life. Sometimes you need to go against the grain to do the right thing."