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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

xvii

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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up

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!

95

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.

96

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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double-dome

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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double-gaited

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?

114

/

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

/

115

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.

116

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

100

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

118

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.

119

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.

130

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

131

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.

132

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

134

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

149

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

154

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

There's a

man

at the

window! 161

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