ENGLISH SLANG

A.
A few bricks short of a full row
If someone is a few bricks short of a full row, they are lacking in intelligence or
common sense, or they are stupid or crazy.
A few bricks short of a load
To describe a person as a few bricks short of a load is to suggest that he or she is
mentally deficient.
A few bricks shy of a load
Someone who is slow to understand is a few bricks shy of a load.
A long time dead
A humorous expression, used to put something such as a serious mistake or a bad
experience into perspective. Implies that being alive, however difficult it can be, is
better than being dead.
Aadvarking
(USA) Aadvarking is having sex, especially in public places.
Aardvark
(UK) Aardvark is hard work.
Aarping
If someone complains all the time, they are aarping.
Absolute Joe
When you have no energy at all, absolute Joe has taken over.
AC DC
AC/DC = bisexual
Ace
Ace = very good
Ace
(USA) An ace is a one dollar bill.
Acid
Acid is the drug LSD or a type of dance music from the 1980s using a lot of sounds
from a Roland 303.
Ackers
(UK) 'Ackers ' means 'money'.
Action
The action if the exciting things that are happening in an area, especially nightlife.
Addy
This is an abbreviated form of 'address'.
Aerated
If someone is aerated, they are angry and overexcited.
Affluenza
Affluenza is anxiety, debt, etc, caused by excessive consumerism. It is a portmanteau
word formed from affluence + influenza.
Aggers
(UK) Aggers are a person's buttocks or bottom.
Aggro
(UK) Aggro is violence or trouble, a shortened form of 'aggravation'.
Airhead

(USA) An airhead is a stupid person.

Airy-fairy
If something is airy-fairy, it is impractical and not based on reality.
Alabama lie detector
An Alabama lie detector is a police officer's baton.
Album wrap
If a record is converted to a single MP3 or other digital format file, it is an album
wrap.
Alcoholique
An alcoholique is a drunk who consumes expensive drinks.
Alcopocalypse
(UK) Alcopocalypse is a particularly severe hangover.
Alcopop
(AU) A sweet drink that is like a fizzy soft drink but containing alcohol, designed to
encourage people to start drinking young.
All day
(USA) A prisoner who's doing all day has got a life sentence.
All over me like a cheap suit
If someone is all over you like a cheap suit, they are aggressively trying to get your
attention or cling to you when you're not interested. ('On me like a cheap suit' is also
used.)
All that and a bag of chips
(UK) Someone or something special is all that and a bag of chips.
Amateur night
(USA) This expression is used when someone displays great incompetence.
Amber nectar
(AU) The amber nectar is lager.
Amped up
(USA) If someone is amped up, they are nervous, excited or agitated.
Analog
People who smoke electronic cigarettes use the word 'analogs' for ordinary cigarettes.
Angel dust
(USA) Angel dust is the drug PCP, a powerful tranquilizer.
Angler
(UK) An angler is a thief who uses a stick or pole to steal things from windows on the
ground floor. In normal usage, and angler is someone who fishes with a rod.
Angora
(AU) An angora is an idiot or fool.
Ankle biter
(AU) An ankle biter is a small child.
Annihilated
If someone's annihilated, they are very drunk.
Anno Domini
The Anno Domini are older people.
Anorak
(UK) An anorak is a person with an boring obsession about something, especially
computers and obscure unlistenable music.
Anti-vaxxer
Someone who is opposed to vaccinations, usually on conspiracy theory grounds, is
an anti-vaxxer.

Antifreeze
(USA) Antifreeze is alcohol.
Antsy
If someone is antsy, they're nervous or worried.
Any hole is a goal
When a man has sexual intercourse with a girl, it is always good even if the girl isn't
beautiful.
Apeth
(UK) An apeth, or daft apeth, is a foolish person. (It is derived from ha'penny worth =
worth half a penny)
Apple-polisher
(USA) Someone who tries to be popular or ingratiate themselves with people in
authority is an apple-polisher.
Aquihire
(USA) If a big IT company buys a smaller one in order to employ the staff, it is
aquihire.
Armpit
A disgusting, unpleasant place, like a filthy pub, is an armpit.
Arse over tit
To slip or fall over in a clumsy way or to try to do something completely the wrong
way
Arsehole
(UK) A person who's annoying and a complete idiot is an arsehole.
Art pamphlet
An art pamphlet is a pornographic magazine.
Arvo
(AU) Arvo means afternoon.
As confused as Jesus on Father's day
If someone's as confused as Jesus on Father's day, they can't make sense of a situation.
As drunk as brewer's fart
If an individual is as drunk as brewer's fart it means he has had way to much of
alcohol.
As pissed as a fiddler's bitch
(Irish) Extremely drunk. The saying comes from the (alleged) Irish habit of giving the
fiddler's pet dog the lees in the bottom of the beer glass. Over the course of the
evening the dog would become intoxicated.
As straight as a rainbow
If you use this expression, it implies that you believe that the person you're referring to
is homosexual.
As useful as teats on a boar hog
(USA) Something or someone that is as useful as teats on a boar hog is useless.
Askole
Someone who asks too many stupid questions is an askole.(It is a portmanteau word
from ask + asshole/arsehole)
Ass backwards
Iff you do something ass backwards, you do it the wrong way or order, or differently
from normal.
Asshat
(USA) An asshat is an idiot.
At the chalkface

Describes the work of a classroom teacher rather than, say, a headteacher.

Attaboy
This is used to encourage someone or to express approval.
Attack dog
An attack dog is a person who tries to attack political or business opponents on behalf
of a leader, political party or company.
Awesome
Something that is awesome is great or outstanding.

B.
Baby bear
If something is baby bear, it is just right. (It comes from the story 'Goldilocks and the
Three Bears')
Babylon
Babylon are the police.
Backhander
(UK) A backhander is an illegal payment.
Bacn
Bacn are emails that people have subscribed to but don't really want to read. (It's
pronounced like bacon)
Bad mind
(Jam) In the spirit of a "dog in the manger" attitude; a Jamaican expression describing
a destructive action or statement which has no benefit for the person who does it, but
done entirely for malice.
Bad news bears
Bad news bears is a phrase usedto describe a negative situation or feeling.
Baffies
(Scot) Baffies are slippers.
Bail
(USA) If you bail, you leave a place.
Ball and chain
This term is used for a spouse, generally a wife. It comes from the heavy iron ball
attached to a prisoner's leg by a chain .
Bally
(UK) A bally is a balaclava worn to cover the face by crimnals, rioters, etc.
Baloney
Baloney is nonsense, rubbish.
Baltic
(UK) Baltic means very cold indeed.
Bampot
(Scot) A bampot is a stupid or irritating person.
Bananas
If someone goes bananas, they go crazy.
Bang on
If something or someone is bang on, they are exactly right.
Bang out of order

(UK) If something is bang out of order, it is completely unacceptable.

Banger
(UK) A banger is a sausage.
Banger
(UK) A banger is an old car, especially if it is in poor condition.
Banjaxed
(UK) If someone is banjaxed, they are intoxicated.
Banjoed
(UK) If someone is banjoed, they are very drunk or high on drugs. "Banjo'd" is an
alternative spelling.
Bankster
This is a portmanteau word from 'banker' and 'gangster' used to refer to the predatory
elements of the banking industry.
Bare
Bare means a lot, very or many.
Bare-live
If somewhere or something is bare-live, it's really good.
Bareback
To bareback = to have casual sex without using a condom
Barf
(USA) To barf = to vomit
Barney
(UK) If you have a barney with someone, you have a big argument or row with them.
Based
When children are based, they are not allowed to go out, usually because they have
behaved badly.
Bath salts
Drugs like mephedrone, methylone and MDPV (methylenedioxypyrovalerone) are
often sold in packetes labelled bath salts, so the term is used for them.
Batshit crazy
A person who is batshit crazy is insane and not just a little bit unusual. ('Batshit mad'
is also used.)
Bazillion
A bazillion is an unspecific but very large number of something.
Be about to find pups
If a woman is about to find pups, she is pregnant.
Beak
(UK) Beak is cocaine.
Beak
(UK) If you come before the beak, you appear before a magistrate.
Bean flicker
(UK) A bean flicker is a lesbian.
Beano
(AU) A beano is a celebration.
Beat
(USA) If you are beat, you are exhausted.
Beat
If you are beat, you are very tired.
Beeb

(UK) The Beeb is a colloquial term for the BBC.

Beef
(UK) A beef with someone is a an argument or a grudge.
Beemer
A Beemer is a BMW car.
Beer belly
A beer belly is protuberant fat around someone's stomach, associated with men who
drink too much beer.
Belly rubber
Refered to when a slow song is being played; when couples dance so closely together
that they rub their bellies up against each other. Ex. When you hear a slow song being
played that is suitable for slow dancing between couples, you would say, "Man, this is
a good belly rubber." It is also used for a pregnant woman who is constantly stroking
her bulge.
Bender
(UK) A bender is a heavy drinking session.
Bender
(UK) A bender is a gay person.
Benjamin
(USA) Benjamin is money, derived from the 100 dollar bill, which has Benjamin
Franklin on it.
Bent
(UK) A person who is bent is a criminal. Something that is bent is either illegal or
dodgy. It can also be used to describe a gay person.
Bent out of shape
(USA) If someone gets bent out of shape, they become angry or are intoxicated.
Biffta
A biffta is a large cannabis cigarette or joint.
Bilge
If something's bilge, it's nonsense or rubbish.
Bilk
To bilk is to avoid paying what is owed or to cheat someone out of money.
Bill
(UK) If you bill, you walk somewhere on your own.
Bimbo
(UK) A bimbo is a sexually attractive but unintelligent young woman.
Biological footprint
The more children a person has, the larger their biological footprint is.
Bird
(UK) A bird is a woman, especially a girlfriend or partner.
Birdbrain
We can call someone is not very bright or intelligent 'birdbrain'.
Bish
'Bish' is an alternative form of 'bitch'.
Bit on the side
If someone has a bit on the side, they have a sexual relationship outside their marriage
or permanent relationship.
Bite me

Bite me is an expression of scorn to indicate that you are not buying into an opinion or
situation or you don't agree with someone and never will.
Black catter
A black catter is someone who will always claim to be better than or able to outdo
you. As in 'if I had a black cat, he'd have a blacker one'.
Black Friday
(USA) Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the USA and is supposed to the
busiest shopping day of the year.
Black gold
Black gold is oil.
Black hat
A person who uses their computer skills for criminal or unethical purposes is a black
hat.
Bladdered
(UK) If someone is bladdered, they are very drunk.
Blag
(UK) This either means a robbery, or persuading someone to do something wrong. It
can be a verb or a noun.
Bling
Expensive showy jewellery is bling.
Blockhead
A blockhead is a stupid person, often stubborn too.
Blood
A blood is a friend or associate.
Bloody
(UK) 'Bloody' can be used as an adjective or adverb to intensify or criticise something
or someone: That bloody man! He's bloody stupid. It was bloody awful. 'Bloody hell'
is an exclamation of surprise, pain, frustration or anger. It is not a very rude or strong
swear word.
Bloviator
A bloviator is someone who pontificates on public issues, especially if they don't know
what they are talking about.
Blow
(USA) Blow is cocaine.
Blow
(UK) Blow is marijuana.
Blow
To blow is to perform oral sex on a man.
Blow chunks
If someone blows chunks, they vomit.
Blow job
A blow job is fellatio.
Blower
The blower is the telephone.
Bludger
(AU) A bludger is a lazy person.
Blunt
(USA) A blunt is a cannabis cigarette.
Bob

(UK) Something that is unfair or disliked is bob.

Bobfoc
A woman with a sexy body but an ugly face is a bobfoc.(It is an acronym of 'Body Off
Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch'.)
Bog standard
If something is bog standard, there is nothing exceptional about it- it is ordinary or
average.
Bogan
(AU) A bogan is someone perceived as lower class, lacking in taste and social graces.
Boil your piss
(UK) If something boils your piss, it irritates you or makes you angry.
Boiler
A boiler is an unattractive woman.
Boll weevil
(USA) A boll weevil is a conservative democratic politician from the southern United
States.
Bonehead
A bonehead is a stupid person- they only have bone in their head.
Bong
A bong is a water pipe for smoking cannabis.
Bong appetit
An alternative form of bon appetit used when people who have been smoking and
have the munchies are about to eat.
Bonk
(UK) Bonk means have sex and can be used as a noun or verb.
Bonkers
Bonkers is mad or crazy.
Boob
Boob means breast.
Boob
(UK) Boob is prison or jail.
Booboo
A booboo is a mistake.
Boomers
Boomers are magic mushrooms, psilocybin mushrooms.
Boot-ho
A boot-ho is an unpleasant but sexually attractive woman.
Booze
(UK) 'Booze' means drinks containing alcohol. It can also be used as a verb, usually
meaning to drink a lot. A 'boozer' can either be a pub or a person who drinks a lot.
Bopper
(USA) A bopper is a person who likes to hang around with people who are rich and
famous.
Bottler
A bottler is a person who lacks the courage to go through with something.
Bottom feeder
A person or organisation that is a bottom feeder is of poor quality.
Bounce
(UK) This means 'go away'.
Boy racer

A boy racer is a young man who drives aggressively at great speed.

Boyf
(UK) A boyf is a boyfriend.
Brain draino
Brain draino is a term for cocaine.
Brain fart
When you lose track of what you are saying and say something that makes no sense,
this is a brain fart.
Brainiac
A brainiac is an excessively clever person, though it is also used for a very stupid
person.
Brap
(UK) If something is brap, it's very good.
Brass
(UK) Brass is money.
Brassic
(UK) Brassic is money.
Break
A break is an opportunity of piece of good fortune.
Break the seal
When someone breaks the seal, they urinate for the first time during a drinking
session.
Break the seal
(UK) Often used during social drinking events/gatherings when an individual is no
longer able to deter the need to use the toilet.
Break wind
If you break wind, you expel gas through your anus.
Breeded-up
If a woman is breeded-up, she is pregnant.
Breeder
Breeder is a negative term for people who have children.
Brew
Depending on context, a brew can be a tea or coffee, or a beer.
Brewski
(USA) A brewski is a beer.
Brick
If a mobile phone or electronic device is bricked, it will not function at all because of
software failure or error.
Brick
(UK) If someone is a brick, they are very reliable or supportive.
Bright as a burned out lightbulb
If someone is bright, they are intelligent, so someone who is as bright as a burned out
lightbulb is very stupid.
Bright as a pound of wet leather
(USA) If someone is as bright as a pound of wet leather, they're not very intelligent at
all. (American Cartoon character Foghor Leghorn said "That boy is about as bright as
a pound of wet leather!" when observing another cartoon character who was
unknowingly about to get hit on the head.)
Broad

A broad is a woman.
Broke
If you are broke, you have no money.
Bromance
A very close, but not sexual, friendship between two males is a bromance. (Brother +
romance)
BS
(USA) BS is used as a politer way of saying that something is bullshit.
Bubble
Bubble is a term for Mephedrone or any type of stimulant drug taken like it.
Bubbles
(UK) Bubbles is a name for the designer drug Methylone.
Buck
(USA) A buck is a dollar.
Bucket
(USA) A bucket is a car.
Bucket list
Things on your bucket list are things you want to do before you die (kick the bucket).
Bucky
(UK) A bucky is a gun.
Buff bod
(USA) A buff bod is a body that is in excellent physical shape.
Bug
If something or someone bugs you, they annoy you.
Bug chaser
A bug chaser is a person who deliberately tries to become infected with HIV.
Built like a brick shithouse
If someone is built like a brick shithouse, they are strong and powerfully built.
Bullarky
(USA) Bullarky is a euphemistic form of the word bullshit
Bulletin whore
A bulletin whore is a person that leaves comments all over social networking sites to
attract people to their page.
Bumfluff
(UK) If a teenage boy is trying unsuccessfully to grow a beard or moustache, the
results are called bumfluff.
Bummer
A bummer is a bad or unfortunate experience.
Bun
Someone who's bun is attractive.
Bunched
If you're bunched, you're upset about something.
Bunny boiler
A bunny boiler is an excessively possessive woman.
Bupkis
Bupkis means absolutely nothing, or nothing of any value.
Bureauprat
(UK) A bureauprat is a petty-minded government worker or civil servant. (From
bureaucrat + prat = idiot)
Burn

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(UK) Burn is tobacco.

Burn your own butt
If you burn your own butt, you do something that will affect you negatively.
Burner
(UK) A burner is a pistol or handgun.
Bushed
If you're bushed, you're exhausted.
Bust a gut
Ig you bust a gut, you make a great effort.
Buttered bun
A woman who has just had sex is a buttered bun.
Butterface
A woman who has a great body but an unattractive face is a butterface (= ... but her
face).
Butters
(UK) Someone who's butters is ugly.
Buy it
If someone buys it, they die, especially in an accident.

C.
Cack
(UK) If something is cack, it is rubbish.
Cack-handed
(UK) If something or someone is cack-handed, they are clumsy and lack skills.
Cacky
(UK) Something's that is cacky is dirty, poor quality or unpleasant.
Caff
(UK) A caff is a cafe.
Caffiend
A caffiend is someone who is addicted to coffee. (caffiend = caffeine + fiend)
Cake
(USA) Cake is money.
Cake-boy
(USA) A cake-boy is a gay man.
Cakewalk
If something is a cakewalk, it's very easy.
Call
A good or bad call is a good or bad decision or choice.
Calm your tits
If you tell somoene to calm their tits, you want them to calm down or stop being
stressed.
Calm your tits
(USA) Calm your tits is an expression often used to tell some one to calm down.
(Various spellings like Calm ya tits are also used.)
Can't be arsed
(UK) If you can't be arsed to do something, you can't be bothered.
Can't half

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If you can't half do something, you do it very well indeed.

Cancer stick
(UK) A 'cancer stick' is a cigarette.
Cane
If you consume or use something excessively or greedily, you cane it.
Caned
(UK) If someone is caned, they are either drunk or have taken a lot of drugs.
Cankles
If someone's legs do not taper at the ankles, they have cankles. ('Kankles' is also used.)
Cannibal
Cannibal is a drug, a form of bath salts, that allegedly makes people bite others,
though many believe it doesn't exist.
Canny
(UK) Canny is English slang from the North East for something good or nice.
Cap
(USA) If you cap someone, you kill them.
Car park
(UK) As a verb, to car park someone is to attack them violently, as many fights take
places in car parks outside pubs.
Card-carrying loony
This is an insulting term used to describe someone who is so unconventional as to
appear to be quite mad. It isn't used to describe anyone with a genuine mental illness.
Carder
A carder is a criminal who specialises in stolen credit card data.
Carousel fraud
(UK) When people import goods and move them from country to country to avoid
paying tax, this is carousel fraud.
Carpet
(UK) Carpet is three months in prison.
Carpet muncher
(UK) A carpet muncher is a lesbian.
Cashpoint cripple
Someone who parks illegally directly in front of a cashpoint or shop because they are
too lazy to walk a bit is a cashpoint cripple.
Cassava
(USA) Cassava is a term used for the female genitals.
Catalogue man
A catalogue man is someone who is very unfashionable.
Celebutard
A celebutard is a particularly stupid celebrity. It comes from celebrity + debutante +
retard.
Cement overcoat
Someone who's been put in a cement overcoat has been killed by the Mafia. (Cement
shoes and cement boots are also used.)
Chain smoker
A person who is a very heavy smoker is a chain smoker.
Charlie
'Charlie' is a slang term for the drug cocaine.
Chat bubbles

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(UK) People who are chatting bubbles are talking rubbish.

Chatlish
Chatlish is the style of writing used in chatrooms and messenger programs, with a lot
of abbreviations, like LOL, ROTFL, and contractions of words, often with the vowels
missing, little punctuation and few capital letters.
Chav
(UK) Chavs, or chav scum, are antisocial people much given to swearing, fighting,
behaving badly when drunk, stealing, wearing tacky jewellery and avoiding work. The
feminine form 'chavette' is used sometimes.
Chav factory
(UK) A chav factory is a council estate in the UK which produces a lot of people on
benefits who don't want to work.
Chaw
(UK) To chaw is to steal. (used in the north east of England)
Cheatz
Cheatz are programs or files to help you cheat in a computer game.
Chebs
(Scot) A woman's breasts are her chebs.
Cheesy
If something is cheesy, it is bad quality or tasteless.
Chelsea tractor
(UK) A Chelsea tractor is an SUV (sport-utility vehicle) when used in a town.
Chenzed
(UK) If someone is drunk or tired, they are chenzed.
Chi town
(USA) Chi town is Chicago.
Chib
(UK) A chib is a knife or homemade weapon used in similar way.
Chick flick
A chick flick is a film that appeals predominantly to women.
Chicken
Chicken - coward or cowardly (noun & adjective)
Chickenhawk
A chickenhawk is a person who supports or encourages war but is too old to have to
fight in it or take risks themselves.
Chickenshit
Someone who is chickenshit is a coward or is afraid at a particular time.
Chickenshit
If something is chickenshit, it is worthless, unimportant or contemptible.
Chillax
Chilllax is a portmanteau word from chill and relax, meaning calm down and take it
easy.
Chimney wok
(UK) A chimney wok is a TV satellite dish.
Chinless wonder
(UK) A chinless wonder is a person from the British upper class who thinks they're
clever and entertaining but are in fact dull and who normally only get their jobs and
positions because of their contacts.
Chip

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(UK) If you chip, you leave a place.

Chipper
If someone is chipper, they are in a very good mood and pleased about something.
Chirpsing
Chirpsing is flirting.
Choad
(USA) A man's choad is his penis.
Chocka
(UK) If something is chocka, it is completely full. (An abbreviation of chock-a-block)
Chocker
(UK) If something is chocker, or chockerblock, it's full.
Choke your chicken
A phrase meaning male masturbation.
Choked
(UK) If you're very disappointed, you're choked.
Chopper
A chopper is a helicopter.
Chops
The area around your mouth is the chops.
Chron
(USA) Something that is extremely good or bad is chron. It also means strong
marijuana.
Chuffed
(UK) If you're chuffed, you're very happy or pleased about something.
Chugger
A chuggger is someone who tries to get donations for a charity from people in the
street. (It's a portmanteau of charity & mugger)
Chump change
Chump change is a very small and insignificant amount of money.
Chunder
To chunder is to vomit.
Churnalism
Lazy journalism, articles that are based on press releases or copied from places like
Wikipedia, is churnalism.
Cis
Cis, or cisgender, means the gender someone was born with.
Clanger
(UK) If you drop a clanger, you make a silly, embarrassing mistake.
Claptrap
If something, especially an opinion or idea, is claptrap, it is nonsense or rubbish.
Claret
(UK) Claret means blood, especially when someone is bleeding after a fight.
Clean skin
A clean skin is someone who is not known to the police or authorities and, therefore, is
unlikely to be detected when committing a criminal or terrorist act.
Clicktease
A link that suggests that a site offers something attractive or free while it offers
something else is a clicktease.
Clip

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(USA) If someone is clipped, they are murdered.

Clock
(UK) If you clock someone, you hit them.
Clout
(USA) A clout is a shoplifter.
Clucky
If a woman is clucky, she is broody and wants to get pregnant.
Cluebat
(USA) A cluebat is a metaphorical bat used to beat sense into someone stupid.
Clunker
A clunker is a decrepid old car.
Cluster fuck
Where everything that can go wrong goes wrong, especially through incomeptent or
excessive management, it's a cluster fuck. ('Clusterfuck' is also used.)
Coalboxed
(UK) If something is coalboxed, it is ruined.
Cobblers
(UK) If something is cobblers, it is no good or rubbish.
Cod
(UK) If something is cod, it could either be excellent or rubbish.
Coffin dodger
(UK) A coffin dodger is an elderly person.
Coffin nail
A cigarette is a coffin nail.
Coin
(UK) If you're short of coin, you're short of money.
Colder than a well digger's ass
(USA) It's real cold outside when it's colder than a well digger's ass.
Commando
If someone goes commando, they are not wearing underwear.
Compliance monkey
A middle manager who strictly enforces unpopular and petty rules and procedures is a
compliance monkey.
Con
A con is a criminal. As a verb and noun, it can also mean fraud.
Confussed
(USA) If someone is confussed, they are confused and fussed.
Confuzzled
(UK) If you're confuzzled, you're confused.
Conswervative
A conswervative is a conservative figure who has been found doing something he or
she has disapproved of in their public life. (it comes from conservative + swerve)
Coolth
People and things that are fashionable are coolth.
Cop
'Cop' is a slang term for the police (It can be used in the singular or plural): 'Slow
down- there's a cop behind us.' The cops arrested them.
Cop
To cop is to buy drugs.
Cop shop

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(UK) A cop shop is a police station.

Copper
(UK) 'Copper' is a slang term for the police (It can be used in the singular or plural):
The coppers took them away.
Cotton ceiling
The cotton ceiling is a limit seen by trans women, where cis lesbians will support their
cause but will not sleep with them.
Cougar
(USA) A cougar is an older woman who goes out to find younger men to have sex
with. ('Urban cougar' is also used.)
Cough
(UK) To cough is to confess to a crime.
Cough and call
If you cough and call, you phone your work ad pretend to be ill to get the day off.
Cowboy choker
A cowboy choker is a cigarette.
Cowboy up
(USA) If someone gets tough when things are difficult a deals with them, they cowboy
up.('Cowgirl up' can be used for women.)
Crack
Crack of a smokable form of cocaine, which got it's name from the noise it makes
when it burns.
Crackberry
A crackberry is a person addicted to their Blackberry device. (from crack +
Blackberry)
Cracker
(USA) A cracker is a white person.
Crackz
A crack is a program or a code used to get full access to software illegally. The plural
is normally witten with -z rather than -s.
Cranioproctologist
A cranioproctologist is an imaginary medical job dedicated to removing self-obsessed
people's heads from their backsides.
Crank
Crank is speed (amphetamine)
Crapola
Crapola is rubbish, nonsense or bad.
Crash
To crash is to go to bed or to sleep.
Crash
If someone goes to a party or event they haven't been invited to, they crash it.
Creps
(UK) Creps are trainers (training shoes).
Crim
'Crim' is an abbreviation of 'criminal'.
Crimble
(UK) Crimble is Christmas.
Crimbo
(UK) Crimbo is Christmas.
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Crinkly
(UK) A crinkly is an older person.
Croak
To croak is to die or to kill.
Croak
This is a way of saying someone has died, though not a very respectful way to put it.
Cron
(USA) A cron is a gun.
Cruisin' for a bruisin'
When someone is cruisin' for a bruisin', they are either doing something or planning to
do something which will get them into trouble.
Cruising for a bruising
If someone is cruising for a bruising they are behaving in a way that is disrespectful to
others and warrants a beating.
Crunk
If someone is crunk, they are very drunk. (It is a portmanteau word from crazy +
drunk)
Crustie
(UK) A crustie is a traveller who has adopted an unwashed and scruffy appearance.
Cunt Nazi
A cunt Nazi is a woman who tries to prevent a man going out with another woman.
Cuppa
(UK) A cuppa is a cup of tea.
Curry and rice
(UK) Curry and rice is a cocktail of the drugs heroin and cocaine, or crack cocaine.
Cush
(UK) Cush is savings, money set aside, and is an abbreviation of 'cushion'.
Cushy
(UK) If something, like a job, is cushy, it is easy.
Cut the cheese
To cut the cheese is to fart.
Cyberloafing
Cyberloafing is spending time at work on the internet doing things that are not workrelated, like checking personal emails and surfing the web.

D.
Dab
(UK) A dab is a fingerprint.
Dab hand
A 'dab hand' is an expert.
Daggy
(AU) If something is daggy, it is unfashionable or lacking in style.
Danglefan
A danglefan is someone who believes in capital punishment.
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Datastreaming
Datastreaming is obtaining credit card details in order to create a counterfeit card.
Debbie Downer
(USA) Used to describe an incessantly pessimistic person, typically someone who
points out the bad things in otherwise good situations.
Deck
(UK) If you deck someone, you hit them so hard that they fall to the ground.
Dee dah
(UK) A dee dah is someone who comes from Sheffield, in the north of England.
Defo
Defo means definitely, certainly, for sure, etc.
Dekecking
(UK) Dekecking is forcibly removing someone's trousers as drunken entertainment.
Delhi belly
(UK) Delhi belly = stomach upset, diarrhoea/diarrhea caught when travelling.
Demic
(UK) Something that's demic doesn't work properly or is broken. A person who is a
hypochondriac is demic.
Demob happy
(UK) Someone who is demob happy knows that they are going to retire or leave a
position and are behaving with greater freedom and careless abandon.
Desk monkey
A desk monkey is a clerk or someone in administration, with the idea that they are
responsible for unnecessary and irritating paperwork.
Det
(UK) If something's det, it's good.
Dib
(USA) A dib is a share of the proceeds of a crime.
Dibs
(UK) Dibs are the police.
Dick flick
A dick flick is a film that appeals predominantly to men.
Dick pillows
A woman's lips are her dick pillows.
Diddly squat
If someone knows diddly squat about something, they know nothing.
Diet Coke
If you are the diet coke of something, you don't have what it takes, or you're
inadequate. Eg. If you're not evil enough, you're the diet coke of evil!
Dime
(USA) A dime is a 10 cent coin.
Dine and dash
(USA) If you dine and dash, you leave a restaurant without paying
Ding wing
(USA) A prison's ding wing is its psychiatric unit.
Dingo
If you dingo a partner, you leave them or fail to turn up for an arranged meeting.
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Dinks (Dual Income, No Kids) are professional couples without children, who have a
lot of disposable income.
Dip
A dip is a pickpocket.
Dipstick
A dipstick is a stupid person, an idiot.
Dirt cheap
If something's dirt cheap, it's very inexpensive.
Disemvowel
Disemvowelling is removing all the vowels in a text, often used in text messages to
save space.
Disgustable
(USA) If something is disgustable, it is very disgusting indeed.
Diss
If you diss someone, you show them that you don't respect them. (it comes from
'disrespect')
Distro
A version of the Linux operating system for distribution is called a distro.
Ditzy
'Ditzy' is an adjective and means 'eccentric or scatterbrained, silly or stupid'. ('Ditsy' is
also used.)
Div
(UK) A div is an idiot. ('Divvy' is an alternative form, also used as an adjective.)
Dive
(UK) An unpleasant, dirty place is a dive.
Do a bamber
(UK) If you do a bamber, you make a mistake.
Do bird
(UK) If someone is doing bird, they are in prison.
Do someone a solid
(USA) If you do someone a solid, you are doing them a favor.
Do the Dutch
(USA) Doing the Dutch is prison slang for committing suicide. ('The Dutch act' has
the same meaning.)
Do your dhobi
If you do your dhobi, you do your laundry.
Do your lolly
If you do your lolly it means you get very angry and clearly show this to others by
your actions (eg shouting, going red in the face, showing aggression verbally and
physically).
Dobber
(UK) A dobber is a condom.
Doddle
(UK) If something is a doddle, it is very easy.
Dodgy
(UK) If something is dodgy, it is stolen, suspect or suspicious. t can also be used for
people who are suspect or untrustworthy.
Dog
A dog is a very ugly woman.
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Dogging
Dogging is having sex in public places in front of other people.
Don
(UK) Something that's don is very good.
Don't get mad, get even
Instead of just getting angry, it's more useful to take revenge.
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
Don't let the door hit you in the butt as you are leaving- it means leave, get out.
Doobie
(USA) 'Doobie' is a term for a cannabis cigarette.
Dooced
If someone loses their job because of something the wrote online, especially in a blog,
they get dooced.
Doozy
(USA) A doozy is something extraordinary or unusual.
Dope
'Dope' is a term for the drug marijuana.
Dope
(USA) If something's dope, it's very good.
Dosh
(UK) 'Dosh' means 'money'.
Doss
(UK) If someone dosses, they don't do any work, or as little as possible. As a noun, if
something is a doss, it doesn't require much or any effort.
Double top
(UK) Double top means 40- it comes from darts, where double top gets forty points.
Douchebag
A douchebag is a pompous, obnoxious man with a very high opinion of himself.
Dough
Dough is money.
Doughboy
(USA) A doughboy is an old term for an American infantryman.
Doxing
Searching on the internet for information about a person's life, especially information
they would rather keep secret, is doxing.
Drink the koolaid
(USA) One who "drinks the koolaid" unquestioningly follows instructions that are
harmful to the individual, typically to maintain membership in a polically correct
group. This is based on the 1979 Jim Jones cult suicide by poisoned koolaid.
Drive a subway
(USA) To drive a subway means to behave dishonestly. Eg. I don't want to work with
Jenny because she's been driving a subway. Meaning: I don't want to work with Jenny
because she's been behaving dishonestly.
Drive-by download
A drive-by download is a program that starts an automatic download of a program
when someone visits a webpage.
Drone
Drone is the drug mephedrone.
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Drop
If someone gets dropped, they get knocked down in a fight.
Drop dead gorgeous
Someone who's drop dead gorgeous is very beautiful.
Drop the kids off at the swimming pool
If you have to drop the kids off at the swimming pool, you need to defecate.
Drop the skinny
(USA) If you drop the skinny on something, you give out the inside or secret
information about it.
Drum
(UK) A person's flat or house is their drum.
Duce
(USA) Duce is a slang term used by many law enforcement officers to refer to an
individual who is operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Duds
Duds are clothes.
Due South
If something is heading due South, it is failing.
Duke it out
(USA) If people duke it out, they fight or compete for something or to see who's best.
Dumb as--a box of rocks, a bag of hammers, a load of bricks
These variations on a theme mean someone is very, very stupid.
Dumber than a box of rocks
Someone who's dumber than a box of rocks is extremely stupid.
Dumbshit
A dumbshit is a very stupid person
Dunny
(AU) A dunny is an outside toilet.
Duppy
(Jam) Jamaican word for spirit of dead person, or ghost.
Duss
(UK) If you duss, you leave a place.
Dust bunny
(USA) A dust bunny is a ball of clump of dirt or hair found under furniture, etc.
Dutch oven
When you fart in bed, under the covers (and hold the smell under the covers until your
bedmate joins you).
Dutch wife
A Dutch wife is an inflatable sex doll or, sometimes, a prostitute.

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'E' is a term for the drug ecstasy.
Eagle freak
(USA) An eagle freak is a keen environmentalist.
Earache
If someone gives you earache, they talk too much, especially if they complain or nag.
Earjack
(USA) If you listen to a private conversation that isn't your business, you are
earjacking. It can also be used for when someone plays music that you particularly
hate. (It comes from ear + hijack)
Early doors
(UK) If it's early doors, it's premature- too early to decide or know something.
Earner
(UK) If something is an earner, it's an easy or illegal way to make money.
Earworm
A song that sticks in your mind even though you hate it is an earworm.
Easy meat
Someone who is easy meat is easily taken advantage of.
Effing and blinding
(UK) If someone is effing and blinding, they are swearing and using foul language,
especially in a situation where it is inappropriate.
Egghead
(UK) An egghead is an intellectual or someone who studies a lot.
Elbow bender
An elbow bender is a heavy drinker.
Electric soup
(Scot) Very strong, cheap lager is electric soup. The term used to be used for a
powdered milk solution that had had natural gas bubbled through it, which created an
intoxicating drink.
Elevator doesn't go to the top floor
(USA) Someone who is really stupid. Jims elevator doesnt go to the top floor.
Elvis has left the building
This means that a spectacle or event is over and it's time to go home.
Embrocation
(UK) Embrocation is any alcoholic drink.
Ends
(USA) Ends is money.
English
English is spin caused by hitting a pool, billiards or snooker ball on the side or with a
twist.
Erp
(USA) To erp is to vomit. ('Earp' is another spelling)
Even dogs travel in pairs
An area is that particularly dangerous is one in which even dogs travel in pairs.
Extra baggage
When someone has extra baggage, they are a little overweight.
Eyes like two piss-holes in the snow
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F.
F-word
The F-word is a euphemism for 'fuck'.
Face card
(USA) A face card is a hundred dollar bill.
Face like a bulldog chewing a wasp
(UK) Someone who has a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp is very ugly.
Face like a smacked arse
(UK) Someone who has a face like a smacked arse has a miserable expression.
Face-ache
(UK) A 'face-ache' is an ugly person.
Fadge
Fadge is the vagina.
Faff
(UK) Faff is fuss or bother as a noun or verb.
Fag
(USA) A 'fag' or 'faggot' is a gay person, a homosexual.
Fag
(UK) A 'fag' is a cigarette.
Fag stag
A fag stag is a heterosexual male who enjoys the company of gay men.
Fag-ash Lil
(UK) Fag-ash Lil is used as a name for a woman who smokes heavily.
Fag-hag
A woman who prefers the company of gay men to that of straight men is a fag-hag.
Faggot
(USA) A faggot is a gay man.
Fair dinkum
(AU) If something is fair dinkum, it is just or deserves approval.
Fanboy
A fanboy is a great fan or enthusiast of something.
Fanny
In American English the fanny is the bottom, but in British English, it is the vagina.
Fap
To fap is to masturbate.
Fart
If you fart, you expel gas through your anus.
Faster than a frog in a high speed blender
Something is accomplished or done very very fast. ex.: "Leave a message and I will
get back to you faster than a frog in a high speed blender..."
Fauxpology
A fauxpology is false or insincere apology, where the person tries to avoid
responsibility.
Featherbrained
If you are featherbrained, you are silly and idiotic.
Fell from the ugly tree
Someone who fell from the ugly tree is ugly. Alternately, someone who is extremely
ugly 'fell from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down'.
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amount or number'.
Fetch
(UK) If something's fetch, it's good or cool.
Filth
(UK) 'Filth' is a slang term for the police, used as a collective noun, but without a
plural marker, with a plural verb: The filth are always patrolling this area.
Fin
(USA) A fin = Five dollars
Firm
(UK) A firm is a criminal gang.
Firtle
(UK) If someone is firtling, they appear busy but aren't doing any proper work, or are
wasting time
Fishtanking
When a person stands and looks lost staring blankly, sometimes turning to stare
blankly in another direction this is known as fishtanking- as if they were a fish in a
tank.
Fit
(UK) A fit person is an attractive person.
Fit as a lop
(UK) If someone is as fit as a lop, they are very healthy.
Five-finger discount
If someone gets something with a five-finger discount, they steal it.
Flame
If you insult someone on the internet or in electronic communications, you flame
them. When a number of people fight on a forum or bulletin board, it's a flame war.
Flamebait
A comment or message posted on the internet intended to start a fight or argument is
flamebait.
Flat as arse'oles
(UK) To describe something that is conceptually, not necessarily literally, very flat, in
particular a car battery having no remaining electrical charge.
Flid
A flid is a stupid or abnormal person. (It is derived from the drug Thalidomide, which
caused many deformities to children whose mothers took the drug when pregnant.)
Flim
(UK) A flim is a five-pound note.
Flip your lid
If someone flips their lid, they become very angry or go crazy.
Flog
(UK) If you flog something, you sell it, especially if the sale is unofficial.
Flossing
(USA) Flossing is showing off.
Flub
Flub = Fat, Lazy, Useless Bastard.
Flub
If someone flubs, they mistake a mistake or do something wrong or badly.
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money.
Fly
(USA) If something is fly, it is cool, good, attractive, etc.
Flyover country
(USA) The central parts of the United States are known as flyover country because
many people only see them out of the windows of airplanes.
Folding
(UK) Folding is cash.
For yonks
(UK) If you haven't done something for yonks, you haven't done it for a very long
time.
Foxy
If someone is foxy, they are extremely attractive, used mostly for women.
Fraff
(UK) If someone is talking fraff, what they are saying is nonsense.
Frag
(USA) To frag is to kill or try to kill a military superior, especially with a grenade or
explosion, as a way of tying not to obey their orders.
Frazzed
If someone is frazzed, they're feeling tense and uncomfortable, especially if this is
because they are coming down from taking drugs.
Freddy
(USA) A freddy is a pint of beer, particularly Heineken.
Freebie
If you get something for free, it is a freebie.
Frit
(UK) If you are frit, you are fightened.
Froggy
(USA) Someone who is froggy is aggressive.
Front
A front is a person with no criminal record who pretends to be in charge of a business
that is actually owned by criminals.
Fronting
(USA) If someone pretends to be more important, richer, etc, than they really are, they
are fronting.
Frost-top
(USA) A frost-top is an elderly person.
Fruit-loop
A fruit-loop is an eccentric, crazy or unpredictable person.
Fry
(USA) To fry someone is to execute them, especially by the electric chair.
Fuck you
This is a way of expressing contempt for someone. 'Fuck you all' can be used for a
group of people.
Fuck you tax
An unfair charge added like a booking fee that you have no choice but to pay, but is
simply there to exploit you is a fuck you tax.
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fucking + ugly)
Full-on
(UK) If something is full-on, it is complete or the maximum possible.
Funny farm
(UK) A funny farm is a hospital for people with mental health problems.
Funny money
(UK) Funny money is fake money.
Furphy
(AU) A furphy is a lie or a damaging rumour.
Furry crocodile
(UK) A furry crocodile is a police dog.
Furry exocet
(UK) A furry exocet is a police dog. (An excocet is a type of missile.)
Furtle
(UK) To furtle with something is to pick at it of fiddle about with it.
Fuzz
'Fuzz' is a collective noun for the police.

G.
Gack
Gack is a burning sensation in the mouth or throat caused by smoking or snorting
drugs.
Gaff
(UK) Your gaff is your home.
Gaff
(UK) A gaff is a mistake or error.
Gaffer
(UK) The gaffer is the boss.
Gaffle
(USA) If someone gaffles you, they cheat you.
Gaft
(USA) To gaft is to steal.
Gak
Gak is cocaine.
Gallie
(UK) A gallie is a casual girlfriend. ('Gally' is an alternative spelling.)
Gallis
(UK) A gallis is a man who is sexually promiscuous.
Gammy
(UK) If a part of the body is gammy, it is injured or infected.
Gander
(UK) If you have a gander at something, you look at it.
Gannet
(UK) A gannet is a greedy person.
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Gash
Gash is a term for both the vagina and women.
Gash
(UK) If something is gash, it is rubbish.
Gaybob
(USA) A gaybob is an idiot.
Gaydar
If someone has gaydar, they can sense whether someone is gay (gay + radar).
Gearhead
(USA) A gearhead is a person who is crazy about cars.
Geezing
Geezing is injecting heroin.
Genetic incontinence
Having children is genetic incontinence.
Get a life
This is used to suggest that someone or a statement is boring or unoriginal, though it
has become a cliche itself.
Get a little on the side
It means to cheat on someone in matters of love. 'They were married, but she thought
he was getting a little on the side.'
Get canned
If you get canned, you are sacked from your job.
Get dibbled
(UK) If you get dibbled, you get arrested or hassled by the police. (The name comes
from Officer dibble, the police officer in the 'Top Cat' cartoon)
Get done for
(UK) To get done for something is to be convicted or punished for a crime or doing
something wrong.
Get hosed
(USA) If you get hosed, you are rejected or refused something.
Get into Dutch
If you get into Dutch, you get into trouble with the law or authorities.
Get off your backside
This is used to tell someone who is lazy that they should make an effort and do
something.
Get the chair
If someone gets the chair, they are sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Get your panties in a wad
(USA) To become unduly upset or flustered over something trivial-often used in the
egative Don't get your panties in a wad.
Ghit
A ghit is a Google hit. (Written English mostly)
Ginnal
(Jam) Jamaican slang for confidence trickster
Give a fourpenny one
(UK) If you give someone a fourpenny one you punch them hard.
Give it socks
(UK) To apply great physical effort to something is to give it socks.
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Give it the jandal
If you give the jandal, you give something everything you've got- make your best
effort.
Give props to
If you give props to someone, you show them the proper respect they deserve. (Often
shortened to 'props to + name')
Give somebody a kick up the backside
To get someone motivated, to get them active rather than them being lazy and doing
nothing.
Give someone air
(UK) If you give someone air, you ignore them.
Give the dog a bone
If you give the dog a bone, you have sex with a woman.
Give you lip
If someone gives you lip, they are rude and show disrespect.
Glasshole
A Glasshole is someone wearing Google Glass who looks very smug or silly.
Glitch
If something has a glitch, it has a fault, especially computers and software.
Glitzy
If something is glitzy, it is stylish, fashionable and ostentatious.
Glomp
(USA) A glomp is a very enthusiastic hug.
Gluey
(UK) Someone who sniffs glue or solvents is a gluey.
Gnashers
Gnashers are teeth.
Go ballistic
(UK) If someone goes ballistic, they get extremely angry.
Go bitchcakes
If someone goes bitchcakes, they lose their temper.
Go on the bash
(Scot) When people go on the bash, they go drinking.
Go postal
(USA) If someone goes postal, they turn violent at work, especially when they shoot
other workers. It is a reference to the American postal service where there have been a
number of cases of people killing other workers in fits of rage.
Go to the mattresses
(USA) If people go to the mattresses, they will use any tactis to get what they want.
Gob
(UK) A person's gob is their mouth. If they have a big gob, they talk too much or talk
indiscreetly.
Gob
(UK) If someone falls over, they gob.
Gob
To gob is to spit.
Gobshite
(UK) A gobshite is a person who talks rubbish. [gob (mouth) + shite (shit)]
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God squad
(UK) Evangelical Christians are the God squad.
Gofer
A gofer is a person whose job involves fetching things and running errands. (It comes
from 'go for' because they have to go for things.)
Gone
If someone is gone, they are so intoxicated they can't understand what's happening
around them.
Good idea fairy
When someone makes a "small" suggestion for how to improve something that is
almost finished, and it invariably makes things far more complicated and the end
product worse.
Good on ya, mate
This means 'well done' or 'good job'; often used sarcastically.
Good shutness!
You can say this when you're glad to be rid of something or someone.
Goof
(USA) A goof is a fool.
Goof
If you goof, you make a mistake or do something wrong.
Goolies
Goolies are a man's testicles.
Gooner
(UK) A Gooner is a supporter of the football team Arsenal.
Gopher
(USA) When you have someone "go for" something on a regular basis as their job or
way of giving voluntary help, they are called a gopher. For example: At the track meet,
we needed two gophers to pick up the scores at each event and give them to the score
keeper.
Gopping
(UK) Something's that disgusting or shocking is gopping.
Gordon Bennett
(UK) An expression of surprise or shock, like 'Cor blimey!'
Gorehound
A gorehound is a person that likes violent horror films.
Graft
Making money illegally, through bribery or corruption, is graft.
Granny farm
A granny farm is a hotel for old people
Grass
(UK) A grass is a police informer. It can also be used as a verb.
Greasy spoon
(UK) A greasy spoon is a cafe or cheap restaurant that serves predominantly fried food
like British breakfasts.
Greenwash
Activities that are meant to make people believe that a company or organisation cares
about environmental issues are greenwash.
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Grief
If someone gives you grief, they make trouble for you or bother you.
Griefer
A griefer deliberately annoys or harms other players in a multiplayer online game for
fun.
Grievous
(UK) If something's grievous, it's really bad.
Grime
(UK) Grime is a UK form of hip-hop.
Grinning like a jackass eating briars
(USA) If someone is grinning like a jackass eating briars, they are smiling and looking
very pleased.
Grody
(USA) If something's grody, it's unpleasant or disgusting.
Grok
To grok is to understand and empathise with someone or something completely,
Grotty
(UK) Something that is grotty is physically unpleasant or revolting.
Grotty
(UK) Something that is grotty is physically unpleasant or revolting.
Grow a pair
This is used to tell someone to show some courage or be decisive. 'Pair' refers to
testicles.
Grub
(UK) Grub is food.
Grundies
(UK) Grundies are men's underwear.
Grunt
(USA) A grunt is a foot soldier.
Gut buster
Used to describe a joke that makes someone laugh so hard that their stomach hurts.
Gutted
If you're gutted, you are very disappointed or hurt.

H.
Hack
A hack is a poor or unethical journalist. It can also be used as an adjective to imply
that something is of a poor standard.
Hacked off
If someone's hacked off, they're annoyed.
Hacker
A hacker is the most talentless type of tattoo artist
Hacker
A hacker is the most talentless type of tattoo artist
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A hacktivist is an activist taking direct action with computers to advance their cause (a
portmanteau word combining Hacker and Activist)
Hairy
If something is hairy, it is frightening or dangerous.
Hairy legs
(AU) Hairy legs are beautiful legs.
Hairy-arsed
(UK) Someone who is hairy-arsed is uncultured or uncivilised.
Half past the monkey's ass and quarter to its balls
If someone says this when you ask the the time, the mean that you should get your
own watch and check the time.
Half-cut
(UK) If someone's half-cut, they are drunk, especially when they are trying to hide it.
Hammered
(UK) If someone is hammered, they are very drunk.
Hamstered
(UK) A person who is hamstered is drunk or high on drugs.
Happy camper
A happy camper is a pleased or satisfied person, though it is often used in the negative.
Hard-on
A hard-on is an erect penis.
Hatstand
(UK) If someone's completely hatstand, they are crazy and disconnected from reality.
Have a cow
(USA) To freak out, to get extremely excited or angry. Often used in the form of 'Don't
have a cow' or 'She's going to have a cow when she hears about this.'
Have a head like a blind carpenter's thumb
If you have a 'head like a blind carpenter's thumb', you are suffering from a hangover
due to excessive drinking.
Head honcho
The head honcho, or honcho, is the boss.
Headcase
(UK) A headcase is someone who is mad or impossible to control.
Heads I win, tails you lose
This idiom indicates that the speaker will win whatever happens.
Heads-up
If you give someone a heads-up, you warn them or draw their attention to something
for them to deal with.
Heap big smoke, but no fire
This is used when somebody promises a lot but doesn't carry through.
Heart attack
If something happens very quickly it can be described as being 'like a heart attack'.
Heave
To heave is to vomit.
Heave-ho
If someone is given the heave-ho, their partner leaves them or they get sacked.
Hectic
If something is hectic, it's excellent.
Heebie-jeebies
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A father or mother who is excessively involved in the life of their child or children is a
helicopter parent.
Hella
(USA) As in 'that car is hella cool.' 'Hella' is used to emphasize adjectives, it acts as
the word 'really'. It can be used instead of the word 'really' when proceeding
adjectives. Only common in certain communities where it is used extremely often
(Northern California for example).
Herb
Herb is a name for marijuana.
Hip shooter
(USA) A hip shooter is someone who talks wthout thinking.
Hip-happening
(USA) A person or place that is hip-happening is very cool.
Hit
To hit is to have sex with someone.
Hit the head
(USA) To hit the head is to go to the toilet.
Hit with the ugly stick
Someone who's been hit with the ugly stick is very ugly.
Hitler piss
(UK) When a man is so drunk that he has to prop himself up with a hand against the
wall, which looks a bit like a Nazi salute, to urinate, this is a Hitler piss.
Hollage
(UK) Hollage is something very entertaining.
Holy Makinaw!
(Canada) Holy Makinaw can be used to express surprise, amazement, joy or the
opposite as frustration or even anger.
Hoo-ha
Hoo-ha is trouble, especially when a lot of people are talking or arguing about
something. ('Hoo-hah' is an alternative spelling.)
Hooch
Hooch is alcohol, especially alcohol sold or made illegally.
Hood
(USA) A hood is a criminal or gangster.
Hood
(USA) Hood is a neighbourhood.
Hoodie
A hoodie is a top or sweatshirt with a hood. It can also refer to the person wearing
one.
Hooking and booking
(USA) Hooking (taking someone into custody/arresting) and booking (checking
someone in to secured detention with prints/photos), the term hooking and booking
refers to a busy day for a law enforcement officer where he has made multiple arrests,
and written multiple crime reports. i.e., Question, "Hey Steve how's it going in your
area today?!", Answer, "Dang, Jim, I'm getting hammered...been hooking and booking
all darn day!"
Hooks
Your hooks are your hands, used in phrases like 'get your hooks into' something.

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(USA) If someone's hooted, they're drunk.
Hooter
(UK) Your hooter is your nose.
Hooters
(UK) Hooters are a woman's breasts.
Hoovered
(UK) Someone who's hoovered is drunk.
Horlicks
(UK) If you make a horlicks of something, you make a mess or do it badly.
Hosed
Getting hosed is getting drunk.
Hot
Hot can mean a number of things: sexy stolen successful popular
How's your father
(UK) 'How's your father' is a euphemism for sex.
Huffy
Huffy is angry. 'In a huff' can also be used.
Hundred yard hero
(UK) A hundred yard hero is a person who shouts insults and makes threats to
someone from a safe distance.

I.
I get paid and we all get laid
(USA) It's an expression of thankfulness because it's the weekend...most people get
paid on Friday. "It's finally Friday. I'm really looking forward to the weekend. I get
paid and we all get laid!"
I Pit'ted 'em
(USA) Refers to an officer's use of a PIT maneuver (Precision Immobilization
Technique, Pursuit Intervention Technique) in order to end a vehicle pursuit.
Ice
If someone is iced, they are killed, though this is more used on TV shows than by
criminals.
Ice
Ice is a name for crystal form of the drug methamphetamine.
Icy
(UK) Something that's icy is extremely good or cool.
Idiot box
Television is the idiot box.
If I tell you a chicken dips snuff you better look under the wing
(USA) This is an expression meaning trust me, I know what I'm talking about.
Iffy
If something is iffy, it is uncertain or untrustworthy.
Ignoranus
(USA) An ignoranus is both ignorant and an asshole.
In the altogether
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A homosexual who hasn't told anyone they're gay yet is in the closet.
In the house
(USA) If someone is in the house, they are present, at that place.
Indijaggers
(UK) If you have indijaggers, you have a stomach upset or bad indigestion.
Ink
Ink is a tattoo.
Inky
If someone's inky, they're drunk.
Innit
(UK) 'Innit' can be used an an all-purpose question tag, or as a way of agreeing with
what someone has said.
Inside dope
Inside dope is information known only to people closely involved in something.
Irving
(USA) An Irving is a boring person.
It's not the years, it's the mileage
The age of something doesn't matter; the wear and tear shows more.

J.
Jab
(UK) A jab is an injection, both medical and non-medical.
Jabber
If someone jabbers, they talk a lot but don't make any sense, usually because they are
excited, scared, etc.
Jack
To jack is to steal. (from Hijack)
Jack
(USA) Jack is money.
Jack all
(UK) Jack all means nothing.
Jack shit
Jack shit means nothing.
Jackass
(USA) A jackass is a fool or idiot.
Jacked
If something is jacked, it is stolen. (It comes from 'hijacked'.)
Jacko
A jacko is a slang term for a paedophile (pedophile)- someone who molests children
sexually.
Jackson
(USA) A Jackson is a twenty dollar bill.
Jagged
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A sexually attractive person below the age of consent is jailbait.
Jailbreak
If you jailbreak a mobile phone or electronic device, you hack it to remove the maker's
restrictions.
Jaked
(UK) If someone is jaked, they're drunk.
Jaked
(UK) If someone is jaked, they're drunk or high on drugs.
Jammy
(UK) Someone who is jammy is very lucky, especially when their luck is undeserved.
Jawache
(UK) To jawache is to kiss someone.
Jazz cigarette
A jazz cigarette is a marijuana joint.
Jellies
Jellies and jelly are names for the drug temazepam.
Jerk
A person who behaves stupidly, embarrassingly or annoyingly is a jerk.
Jessie
(UK) A person who is easily frightened or weak is a jessie.
Jezzy
A jezzy is a sexually promiscuous woman. ('Jessie' is also used. It is derived from
Jezebel.)
Jiggy
If someone is jiggy, they are happy or contented.
Joanie
(USA) If something is Joanie, it's old-fashioned.
Job
(UK) A job is a crime.
Jobber
A multi-skilled technician expected to carry out the more menial tasks of a project is a
jobber.
Jobsworth
(UK) A jobsworth is an annoying official who sticks to rules no matter how petty or
trivial they are. (It comes from 'more than my job's worth', which means they think
any deviation would place their job at risk.)
Jock
(USA) A jock is an athlete, especially in colleges or universities.
Joe
(USA) A Joe is an ordinary person.
John
(USA) The john is the bathroom or toilet.
Johnson
(USA) This is a term for the penis.
Joined at the dick
Two straight men who are very close friends and are often spoken about as a pair are
joined at the dick.
Joint
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Jones
(USA) If someone is jonesing for something, they crave it.
Jook
If you jook someone, you stab them with a knife.
Jordan
(USA) A jordan is an attractive male.
Joshing
If you josh somebody you trick or fool them.
Jug
(UK) A jug is a bank.
Jugs
Jugs are a woman's breasts, especially if they are large.
Juicing
Athletes who consume performance enhancing drugs are juicing.
Juk
(UK) To juk someone is to stab them.
Jump someone's bones
To jump someone's bones is to have sex with them.
Jump the stable door
(USA) If someone has jumped the stable door, they have strayed away from home. It
is usually used as a description for an unfaithful wife. "she's jumped the stable door a
time or two" or "she's jumped the stable door again"
Jumper
(UK) A jumper is a thief who steals from offices.
Junker
(USA) A junker is a decrepid old car.
Junkie
A junkie is a heroin addict, though the term is often used for drug addiction.

K.
K-hole
K-hole is the drug ketamine.
K2
(UK) K2 is a name for synthetic cannabis or herbal mixtures that are supposed to
imitate the effects.
Kak
(UK) If something is kak, it is rubbish. Alternative spellings- cak & cack
Kale
(USA) Kale is money.
Kangaroo juice
(AU) If a car is running on kangaroo juice, then it is moving in a jerky or bouncy
manner - usually because of a faulty car and/or driver.
Kaput
(UK) If something's kaput, it has broken down and can't be fixed.
Kaylied
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(UK) 'Kecks' are 'trousers'.
Kegger
(USA) A kegger is a beer party.
Kerfuffle
(UK) A kerfuffle is a mess or a disturbance.
Keyboard warrior
A keyboard warrior is someone who is extremely aggressive on the internet but would
not express the same opinions in real life.
Khazi
(UK) The khazi is the toilet.
Kibitz
(USA) If someone makes unwanted and unwelcome suggestions, they are kibitzing.
Kibosh
If you kibosh something, you stop it or put an end to it.
Kick rocks
(USA) This means go away or leave me alone.
Kick your ass
If someone will kick your ass, he will beat you, pound you, kick you, punch you, or do
anything to hurt you.
Kickback
If someone asks for money in return for doing something, especially for giving
someone a job or contract, they are asking for a kickback.
Kidney buster
(USA) A very rough ride or bumpy ride is a kidney buster.
Kidult
A kidult is an adult who does things or behaves in ways normally associated with
children and younger people.
Kip
(UK) Kip is sleep, both as a verb and a noun.
Kipe
(USA) If someone kipes something, they steal it.
Kite
(USA) Kite is money.
Kizzo
Kizzo is a name for the recreational drug ketamine.
Kludge
A kludge (or kluge) is an improvised or clumsy temporary solution to a problem, like a
workaround in computing.
Klutz
(USA) A klutz is a clumsy idiot.
Klutz
A person who is clumsy or is acting like an idiot is a klutz.
Knackered
If a person is knackered, they're tired or exhausted. If an object like a machine is
knackered, it is broken or worn-out.
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USA)
Knock yourself out
(USA) This can be used as: 1) A response to a complaint indicating that the
complainer should quit talking about a problem and go solve it. 2) An acceptance of a
proposed solution to a problem without volunteering to join in the actual solving
Know-all
(UK) A know-all is a person who thinks they know more and are cleverer than other
people.
Know-it-all
(USA) A know-it-all is a person who thinks they know more and are cleverer than
other people.
Knuckle sandwich
(UK) If someone is given a knuckle sandwich, they are punched in the face.
Knucklehead
A knucklehead is someone who does not think much or who is stupid.
Kook
(USA) A kook is a strange person.
Krokodil
Krokodil is a street name for the opioid drug desomorphine, which can cause a lot of
problems to the skin and flesh if it is not purified after making it.
Kudos
If you get kudos for doing something, you gain respect.
Kype
If someone kypes something, they steal it.

L.
Laddette
(UK) A young woman who likes drinking, football, behaving badly, etc, is a laddette,
which is a female form of 'lad', a word for a young male, especially one who behaves
in the same way.
Lager lout
(UK) A lager lout is a young person who drinks too much and behaves anti-socially
when drunk.
Lairy
(UK) A person who's lairy is loud and ill-mannered.
Lame
If something is lame, it is no good, inadequate or unconvincing.
Lamp
(UK) If you lamp someone, you hit them.
Langered
(UK) If someone is langered, they are very drunk or high on drugs.
Lardarse
(UK) A lardarse is someone who is very overweight.
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drugs are involved.
Lashed
(UK) A person who's lashed is drunk.
Lawfare
Lawfare is bullying people into submission or compliance through the use or legal
writs, a portmanteau word made from law + warfare.
Lead balloon
If something goes down like a lead balloon, it fails completely and everyone thinks it's
awful.
Lead foot
If someone has a lead foot, it means they drive too fast.
Lebanese loop
A Lebanese loop is a device used to obtain bank cards or bank card details when
people use ATMs (automated teller machines).
Leftard
A leftard is someone whose political beliefs are so left-wing that people question their
sanity.
Legless
(UK) Someone who is legless is very drunk indeed.
Lemon
If someone buys a lemon, they buy something that is defective or are defrauded. If a
person is a lemon, they are a bit stupid.
Lemon
(UK) A lemon is a lesbian.
Lemon
(UK) A lemon is a favour.
Lemons
A woman's lemons are her breasts.
Let's blow this pop stand
(USA) This can be used when it's time to leave a boring place.
Light in the loafers
A man who is light in the loafers is effeminate.
Lights are on but nobody's home
If the lights are on but nobody's home, the person referred to is not very aware or
stupid.
Like a blue-arsed fly
(UK) If you are running around like a blue-arsed fly, you are extremely busy.
Like a fart in a trance
(UK) Someone who's like a fart in a trance doesn't have much idea of what is
happening around them.
Limey
(USA) A limey is a British person.
Lingo
Lingo is a language or jargon.
Lip service
Lip service is fellatio.
Lippy
(UK) Someone who is lippy is cheeky and rude.
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Liquid lunch
A drinking session at lunchtime, instead of eating, is a liquid lunch.
Lit up like a Dutch brothel
When a house, or object is lit up very brightly, so much so as to draw attentionm, it is
lit up like a Dutch brothel. E.g. "The Christmas tree was lit up like a Dutch brothel."
"With all the lights on, the house was lit up like a Dutch brothel from the street." "The
fireworks lit up the park like a Dutch brothel." "The strip in Las Vegas is lit up like a
Dutch brothel."
Little Hitler
Someone who loves giving orders and exerting their authority is a little Hitler.
Loaded
If someone's loaded, they're very rich.
Loaded
If someone's drunk or high on drugs, they're loaded.
Loaded for bear
(USA) If you're loaded for bear, you're prepared and ready for something that will be
difficult, possibly over-equipped.
Loadie
(USA) A loadie is someone who is often dunk or takes a lot of drugs.
Lob
(UK) To lob is to throw or throw away
Locavore
A locavore only eats food that is produced locally to reduce damage to the
environment. ('Localvore' is also used.)
Lock
(USA) If something is a lock, it's a certainty, a sure thing.
Lookah
(UK) Lookah is money.
Looks like a goat exploded
If something like a room looks like a goat exploded, it is a complete mess. (Goats are
believed to eat just about anything from paper to barbed wire).
Looks like the south end of a northbound mule
(USA) Someone who looks like the south end of a northbound mule is very ugly.
Looky-loo
A person who goes in stores and just looks but never actually buys anything is a
looky-loo. Some people call them window shoppers but window shoppers don't go
inside stores. ('lookee-loo' is also used)
Lorg
(USA) A lorg is a boring person who does not fit in with other people.
Love handles
Love handles are rolls of fat around the waist.
Lower than whale shit
Whale shit is supposed to be the lowest thing on earth, so if someone is lower than
whale shit, they are very low indeed.
Lucky sperm club
People who have the good fortune to be born into a rich, well-connected family are
members of the lucky sperm club.
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used.)
Lunchbox
(UK) A man's genitals are his lunchbox.
Lung oyster
Lung oysters are the phlegm a smoker coughs up.
Lurker
A lurker is someone who spends time on internet forums but doesn't participate
actively.
Luvvie
(UK) A luvvie is an actor, especially an affected or pretentious one.

M.
Mac-lash
Criticism of or coming to dislike Apple products is a Mac-lash.
Main drag
The main drag is the most important street in a town or city.
Make a bundle
If you make a bundle, you make a lot of money.
Make a pass
Suggest sexual activity or flirt
Make a stink
If someone makes a stink, they make a fuss and cause trouble.
Make a train take a dirt road
(USA) Something or someone very ugly could make a train take a dirt road. (Southern
USA)
Make mincemeat
If you make mincemeat of somebody, you defeat or destroy them completely.
Mampy
(UK) Someone who's mampy is ugly.
Man rat
(UK) Man rats are liars.
Mandem
(Jam) Mandem means friends. ('Man dem' is also used)
Mandies
Mandies is slang for the drug methaqualone.
Mandrake
Mandrake is slang for the drug methaqualone.
Manny
(UK) A manny is a male nanny.
Manor
(UK) A person's manor is their neighbourhood or their area of influence.
Marbles
Marbles are testicles.
Mardy
(UK) Someone who complains a lot or gets upset easily is mardy.
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Mazoola
(USA) Mazoola is money
Mazuma
(USA) Mazuma is money
Mcat
Mcat is the drug Mephedrone.
McChildhood
A McChildhood is when parents give their children things that will satisfy them in the
short-term but leave them ill-equipped for dealing with more serious issues later in
life.
McJob
A McJob is a boring, low-paid job in the retail or service sectors with few prospects.
(The prefix 'Mc' comes from the fast food chain McDonald's)
Meaner
A meaner is a person who is being unfair.
Meathead
A meathead is a stupid person.
Meg
(UK) Someone who's meg is very embarrassing (Most Embarrassing Guy/Girl).
Mega
If something's mega, it's great. It can also mean a large number or quantity.
Meh
This is used to show that you don't care about something.
Meow meow
(UK) Meow meow is a term used by the media for the drug mephedrone. (Miaow
miaow is also used.)
Meph
Meph is the drug mephedrone.
Merf
(USA) This can be used, normally at the start of an utterance, to express sympathy,
shame or indifference.
Meth
Meth is an abbreviation used for the drug methamphetamine.
Metrosexual
A man who takes a lot of care over his appearance is a metrosexual.
Mexxy
Mexxy is the drug methoxetamine.
Michael Jackson
(UK) A Michael Jackson is an amount or number under ten.
Mickey Mouse
If something is Mickey Mouse, it is of poor quality or not to be taken seriously.
Minder
A minder is a bodyguard.
Mindfuck
A mindfuck is something that is so surprising, shocking or complex that it is difficult
to comprehend.
Minger
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Mint
(UK) If something's mint, it's really good.
Mither
(UK) A person who mithers complains a lot.
Mitts
(UK) Mitts are hands.
MoFo
(USA) MoFo is an abbreviated form of 'motherfucker'.
Moggie
(UK) A moggie is a cat.
Mojo
Mojo is a person's charm or confidence.
Mole
A mole is an ugly person.
Molly
Molly is a pure form of MDMA (ecstasy).
Monkey
(UK) A monkey is 500.
Montezuma's revenge
Montezuma's revenge is a stomach upset or food poisoning caught on holiday.
Moobies
If an overweight man has moobies, he looks as if he has breasts.
Mood mail
Emails, texts and other electronic messages that are sent when the writer is angry or
emotional are mood mail.
Moody
(UK) If something's moody, it is illegal or fake.
Moolah
(UK) Moolah (or moolar) is money.
Moose
If a person is a moose, they are socially inept.
More power to you
An expression of praise or admiration for someone's success or bravery.
Mos def
Mos def means most definitely.
Moss-back
(USA) An elderly relative is a moss-back.
Motherfucker
(USA) A motherfucker is a despicable person.
Mozzarella
(UK) Mozzarella is money.
Mud
Mud is the drug MDMA (ecstasy), especially when in powdered form rather than pills.
Muffin top
A muffin top is a roll of fat exposed when wearing low-cut jeans.
Mullered
(UK) Someone who is mullered is very drunk.
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and is regarded as tasteless and amusing.
Munter
(UK) A munter is an ugly person.
Muppet
(UK) A muppet is an idiot.
Murk
(USA) If you murk someone, you beat them to death or kill them.
Muscle Mary
A muscle Mary is a gay bodybuilder.
Mushroom
(USA) An innocent person shot in a street fight is a mushroom.
Mutt
A mutt is an ugly woman.
My bad

N.
Nab
(UK) To nab can be to steal or to arrest.
Nadgers
(UK) Nadgers means testicles.
Naff
(UK) Something that is 'naff' is of poor quality or tasteless.
Nail
If you nail someone, you catch them or arrest them.
Nails
(UK) If someone's nails, they are very strong and good in a fight. (It comes from 'hard
as nails)
Nang
(UK) Something that's nang is very good.
Nank
(UK) A nank is a knife.
Narg
(UK) A narg is a boring person who does not fit in with other people.
Natty
(UK) If something or someone is natty, they are smart and stylish.
Navel-gazing
Navel-gazing is focusing too much on a single topic or excessive self-absorbtion.
Nebbish
A nebbish is an ineffectual, indecisive person, usually male.
Nectar
If something's nectar, it is very good.
Ned
(Scot) A ned is Scottish term for an unpleasant young person with no manners, usually
drunk and often criminal.
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Training).
Neither Arthur nor Martha
A person who is neither Arthur nor Martha is bisexual.
Nerd
A nerd is a person with limited social skillls, especially one who is very interested in
compputers.
Nerdgasm
When someone has a nerdgasm, they get very excited about something technological
or geeky.
Nervous Nellie
A nervous Nellie is someone who is always worrying unnecessarily about things.
Nesh
(UK) Someone who's excessively sensitive or easily upset, sacred, etc, is nesh.
Nick
(UK) The nick is prison or police station. As a verb, it means to arrest or catch
someone.
Nickel
(USA) A nickel is a five-cent coin.
Nickel
(USA) A nickel is a five-year prison sentence.
Nickel bag
(USA) A nickel bag of a drug is five dollars' worth.
Nimby
A nimby is someone who objects to policies or decisions that might affect them but
don't mind if they affect others. (It is an acronym of Not In My Back Yard)
Nipper
(UK) A nipper is a small child.
Nix
(USA) To nix something is to forbid or ban it.
No cheese down that hole
If there's no cheese down that hole, there is no truth behind what someone believes is
true.
No platform
If someone is given no platform, or no-platformed, they are denied the opportunity to
talk publicly about their views and opinions.
No shit, Sherlock
This is used sarcastically when someone has said something very obvious.
Noddy dog
(UK) If someone's like a noddy dog, they are always agreeing with people in authority.
Nonce
(UK) A nonce is a sex offender.
Noob
A noob is someone who is new to something, especially in computing and on the
internet. (It is an alternative spelling and abbreviation of 'newbie')
Not just a hat rack
Someone who is not just a hat rack is smarter than they seem.
Not on speakers
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A person who is particularly incompetent couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.
Not quite the full shilling
(UK) Someone who's a bit crazy is not quite the full shilling. (The shilling was used as
money in the UK; we used to have pounds, shillings and pence instead of just pounds
and pence.).
Not safe in taxis
(UK) If a man is not safe in taxis, he is the sort who would grope or molest women
given the opportunity.
Not the sharpest pencil in the box
Someone who is not the sharpest pencil in the box is not the smartest person in a group
or not very clever.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
This refers to someone that is not very intelligent.
Nowt
(UK) Nowt mean nothing.
Nug
(USA) A nug is a girlfriend.
Nuke
A nuke is a nuclear weapon.
Nuke
A nuke is a nuclear weapon.
Numpty
(UK) A numpty is a clueless person who will never have any idea what they are or
should be doing. ('Numptie' and 'numshie' are alternative spellings.)
Nuts
If someone is nuts, they behave strangely or are crazy.
Nutter
(UK) A nutter is someone who is mad or obsessed with something.

O.
Oaf
An oaf is an idiot or a clumsy person.
Ocker
(AU) An ocker is an Australian who speaks in an uncultured manner with a strong
accent.
Oddball
A person who is different, unpredictable or unusual is an oddball.
Off like a prom dress
I once heard a co-worker use this expression in reference to the excitement and
urgency she felt about going to the closings on her first home purchase. She was really
excited about getting her first home and did not want to be late for the closing. As she
was leaving her desk she said "I'm off like a prom dress."
Off the heezy
(USA) If something's off the heezy, it's excellent.
Off your face
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(UK) If someone is off their tits, they are very drunk or intoxicated with drugs.
Ohno second
The ohno second is the moment when you suddenly realise that you have made a
serious mistake or error.
Okey dokey
(UK) This is an alternative form of 'OK'.
Old Bill
(UK) 'Old Bill' is a slang term for the police, used as a collective noun with a plural
verb: The Old Bill are searching for the mugger.
Old boiler
(UK) An old boiler is an ugly old woman.
Old boiler
An old boiler is a term used for the old chickens that are sold in the supermarkets as
"boiling hens" because they are not good for anything else other than boiling. It is a
follow on from the expression "the old chook". It is what someone might call their
mother.
Old fart
(UK) An old fart, or a boring old fart, is an old-fashioned person.
Old lag
(UK) An old lag is a criminal who is regularly caught and sent to prison.
Old Sparky
(USA) Old Sparky is the electric chair used in Florida, but is often used for the electric
chair in general.
Olympic village
A town with a very high proportion of obese people is an Olympic village.
On the blob
(UK) If a woman is on the blob, she is menstruating.
On the down low
(USA) When something is said to be on the "down low" or "the DL", then it is to be
kept a secret.
On the job
(UK) If people are having sex, they are on the job.
On the nod
Someone who has taken a lot of drugs and is barely conscious is on the nod.
On the QT
If something is on the QT, it is confidential. (= On the Quiet)
On the razzle
(UK) A person who is on the razzle is out drinking alcoholic beverages in quantity.
On the snoff
(UK) If someone is on the sniff, they are looking for a sexual partner.
On your bike
This is used as a way of telling someone to get lost.
One fry short of a Happy Meal
A person who isn't too bright or intelligent is one fry short of a Happy Meal.
Oodles
(UK) Oodles of something is a lot.
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illegally.
Own
If you are owned then you are made to look stupid or beaten at something. (pwned,
0wn3d, pwn3d, and own3d are some alternative spellings used.)

P.
Packet
A man's genitals are his packet, especially when the size is being considered.
Pad the bill
If someone pads the bill, they try to add extra things onto their expenses to get more
money out of a company.
Paladic
(UK) If someone is paladic, they're very drunk.
Palatic
(UK) Someone who's palatic is extremely drunk. (It may be a corruption of
paralytic.)
Palooka
(USA) A palooka is a large, clumsy man.
Panda eyes
Someone who looks very tired and has black rings around their eyes has panda eyes.
Panned
(USA) If someone is panned, they're drunk.
Papyrus
Papyrus = paper, used by people who prefer electronic communication and dislike
papers. Email it to me- I don't do papyrus.
Parachute
Wrapping drugs in cigarette paper, tissue or toilet paper and swallowing them is
parachuting.
Paralytic
(UK) Someone who's paralytic is incredibly drunk.
Park your arse
(UK) If someone tells you to park your arse, they are telling you to sit down.
Partner in crime
A partner in crime is a criminal accomplice but can also be used to mean a friend or
colleague, epsecially if you bahave badly when with them.
Pash
Pash is to kiss someone passionately.
Patsy
A patsy is person who can easily be cheated or fooled.
Pavarotti
(UK) A Pavarotti is a 'tenner' (ten pounds) because the singer is a tenor.
Payola
A secret payment or bribe to get people to use or promote a product is payola. It can
also mean the act of making the payment or giving the bribe.
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about someone they associate with.
Pecker
(USA) Pecker means penis.
Peckham Rolex
(UK) A Peckham Rolex is an electronic tag fitted to criminals.
Pedo
A pedo is a slang term for a paedophile (pedophile)- someone who molests children
sexually. It is also used as a term of abuse.
Pee or get off the pot!
This means to hurry up and finish what you are doing or get out of the way. You will
hear this on the golf course or when people are driving.
Peels
(USA) The orange clothes worn in some prisons are known as peels.
Peeping Tom
A peeping Tom is someone who likes spy on people when they are naked or having
sex: a voyeur.
Peeps
(USA) Peeps means person/people.
Peg
A peg is a leg.
Pegging
When underage people hang around outside shops asking people to buy them
cigarettes or alcohol, they are pegging.
Pen pusher
A pen pusher is a bureaucrat or office worker.
Pencil geek
(USA) A pencil geek is someone who studies excessively and is boring.
Peng
(UK) Someone that is peng is attractive.
Perp
(USA) A perp is a perpetrator, or someone who is believed to have committed a crime.
Petrolhead
(UK) A petrolhead is a person who is crazy about cars.
Phishing
Phishing is tricking people into giving their personal details, especially things like
bank or credit card details, often using emails to send people to fake websites.
Phizog
Your phizog (or phiz) is your face.
Pickled
If someone is pickled, they are drunk.
Piece
A piece is a gun.
Pig
'Pig' is a slang term for the police (It can be used in the singular or plural): The pigs
came and broke the party up. Careful! There's a pig coming.
Pigpen
If a place is very untidy and dirty, it is a pigpen. ('Pigsty' is also used.)
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(UK) When a man is so drunk that they have to cover one eye with a hand in order to
urinate with any sort of accuracy, they are taking a pirate piss.
Piss and moan
Complain repeatedly.
Piss it up against the wall
If people piss something up against the wall, especially money, they waste it.
Pissed as a fart
(UK) If someone is as pissed as a fart, they are extremely drunk.
Pissing in the wind
If someone is pissing in the wind, they are wasting their time by doing something that
will never work.
Pistol
(USA) A pistol is an attractive or powerful person.
Play the world's smallest violin
(UK) If you play the world's smallest violin, you show very little or no sympathy.
Playa
A playa is somebody who has many partners or who sleeps with a lot of people. (A
phonetic spelling of 'player' because they 'play the field')
Pleb
A pleb is someone common, without much taste. (It is an abbreviation of 'plebian'.)
Plinking
(USA) Plinking is firing a gun for fun and not to kill someone or for criminal
purposes.
Plonk
(UK) Plonk is cheap wine.
Plonker
(UK) A plonker is an idiot or useless person.
Polari
(UK) Polari was gay slang used by some in the UK until the 1960s.
Police your brass
(USA) When you police your brass, you pick up the spent shell casings ejected from
your gun.
Pom
(AU) Poms are the British.
Pommophobic
Someone who is pommophobic hates Apple computers. ('Pomme' is 'apple' in
French.)
Ponce
(UK) A ponce is a pimp, someone who exploits people or who dresses excessively. As
a verb, it is to asdk to borrow something without intending to return it or pay it back.
Pony
(UK) A pony is 25.
Ponzi scheme
A ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment opportunity that offers huge rewards and
pays returns out of new money coming in rather than real earnings, named after
Charles K. Ponzi, who scammed people for millions of dollars in the USA.
Pop
When a woman pops, she gives birth.
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When someone pops it, they die.
Poppers
The drug amyl nitrite is known as poppers.
Porker
A porker is a person who is very overweight.
Porn
(UK) If something's porn, it's really good.
Posse
A posse is a criminal gang.
Postmodem depression
Postmodem depression is the kind of depression that some people go into when they
realise they are unable to access the internet
Pottymouth
Someone who is or has a pottymouth swears a lot.
POV Warrior
A person bent on pushing their agenda to the exclusion of all others. (POV = Point Of
View)
Precariat
People who are economically and socially unstable are the precariat. (It's a
portmanteau word from precarious and proletariat.)
Preloading
If someone consumes alcohol or drugs before going out, often to save money in
expensive clubs, they are preloading.
Prescott kiss
(UK) A punch on the nose. (Named after the British politician, John Prescott, who
once punched a protester)
Press the tit
Press a button, usually a small button like those on a tv remote control
Pretexting
Pretexting is obtaining personal information, like phone records, by pretending to be
somebody.
Pretty darn
(USA) 'Pretty darn' means 'very' or 'a lot': My computer is pretty darn fast.
Prolly
Prolly means probably.
Psycho
A psycho is someone who is crazy or irrational. (It can be used as a noun or adjective.)
Psychonaut
A psychonaut explores their consciousness and inner mind by using psychoactive
drugs or mind exploring techniques.
Puggled
(UK) Puggled means drunk.
Pugly
(UK) Someone who is pugly is very ugly indeed. (pig ugly)
Puke
Puke is vomit, and can be used as a noun or verb.
Pukka
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Pull a Houdini
Whena person disappears, usually by playing hookey from work or shirking a
responsibility, they pull a Houdini.
Pull a Jolie
If a celebrity pulls a Jolie, they do some very public charitable act. (It comes from the
actress Angelina Jolie who likes adopting children from developing countries.)
Pull an all-nighter
If you pull an all-nighter, you stay up all night to work or to drink, party, etc.
Pulled
If you get pulled, or are pulled, you are stopped by the police or arrested.
Puma
A young woman looking for an older man is a puma.
Punter
(UK) A punter is a gambler, customer or client- someone paying for a service.
Purple drank
(USA) Purple drank is a drink made with a cough mixture containing promethazine
and codeine used as a reacreational drug.
Put on your raincoat
If you put on your raincoat, protect yourself from STD's and pregnancy by using a
condom.
Put the kibosh on something
If you put the kibosh on something, you stop it or prevent it from happening again.
Put you big girl panties on and get over it
When you are told to "put your big girl panties on," you are told to be more mature
and just move on with your life, rather than feeling angry or resentful.
Put your purse down
This is used as a way of telling a man to stop being a wimp.

Q.
Quaaludes
Quaaludes is slang for the drug methaqualone.
Quack
A quack is a doctor, especially a bad one.
Quads
Quads is slang for the drug methaqualone.
Quake your gizzard
(USA) If someone quakes their gizzard, they vomit.
Quandong
(AU) A quandong is a woman.
Quant
A quant is a maths geek who does quantitative analysis for banks, etc.
Quarter
(USA) A quarter is a 25 cent coin.
Queer
A queer is a gay man.
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(UK) A quid is a pound, the British currency.
Quidnunc
A quidnunc is a person who is very interested in finding out the latest gossip and news.
Quim
(UK) A woman's genitals are her quim.

R.
Rack
A woman's breasts are her rack, especially if they are large.
Radfem
A radfem is a radical feminist.
Radge
(UK) If someone's radge, they are mad or uncontrollable.
Radgee
(UK) A radgee is a badly-behaved child.
RAF
(UK) RAF stands for 'rough as fuck' and is used for a particularly ugly or uncouth
person, usually a woman.
Ragbag
(UK) A ragbag is a selection of things that haven't been chosen systematically.
Raining fit to drown a duck
If it is raining fit to drown a duck, it is raining heavily.
Ralph
(UK) To ralph is to vomit.
Rammed
(UK) If a place, especially a pub or bar, is rammed, it is very crowded.
Rank
(UK) Something or someone that is rank is disgusting or ugly.
Rare as rocking horse shit
Something that is as rare as rocking horse shit is a very rare commodity indeed.
Rat's ass
If something isn't worth a rat's ass, it's worthless. If you couldn't give a rat's ass about
something, you couldn't care less.
Rat-arsed
(UK) If someone is rat-arsed, they are very drunk.
Rat-faced
(UK) If someone is rat-faced, they are very drunk.
Rat-run
A rat-run is a residential road that is used by many drivers as it is a convenient route
and avoids traffic.
Ratboy
A ratboy is an unpleasant, shifty young male criminal with pale skin resulting from too
much fast food,
Ratfink
A womanising and untrustworthy gentleman is a ratfink.
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Rattle
If something rattles you, it annoys you or makes you angry.
Rattle your dags
A request or command to someone to hurry up. From the noise made by sheep
excrement which has dried out and formed individual structures on the long wool at
their hind quarters called dags. These collide when a sheep breaks into a run and make
a very distinctive rattling sound.
Rattling
(UK) If a drug addict's rattling, they are experiencing the painful effects of
withdrawal.
Ratty
(UK) If someone is in a bad mood, they are ratty.
Razz
If someone goes out on the razz, they go out and drink a lot of alcohol.
Re-entry
Re-entry is a term for returning to sobriety after taking LSD or other hallucinogenic
drug.
Rear gunner
A rear gunner is a gay.
Red-headed stepchild
An odd or unpopular person sis a redheaded stepchild. If someone is badly beaten, we
can also say that they were beaten like a red-headed stepchild. ('Ginger-haired' can
also be used.)
Redneck
A redneck is a poor white person from the southern United States, especially rural
areas.
Reefer
'Reefer' is a term for a cannabis cigarette.
Rekcuf
Rekcuf is fucker written backwards, sometimes used to bypass censorship on websites.
Repo man
A repo man's job is to repossess goods where the purchaser hasn't kept up with the
payments.
Resource Hog
A computer program that consumes a lot of memory and slows things down is a
resource hog.
Retrosexual
A man who takes little or no care of his appearance is a retrosexual.
Reverse ferret
(UK) When a government or organisation changes its position completely on an issue,
it's a reverse ferret, especially if they try to ignore or conceal the fact that they have
changed.
Riff
A riff is a regular sequence of notes or chords, usually when played on a guitar.
Rightard
A rightard is someone whose political beliefs are so right-wing that people question
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If something's righteous, it's top quality.
Rim
Rimming someone is performing analingus.
Rim fest
When people are excessively sycophantic towards someone or something, it is a rim
fest.
Ripped
If someone is ripped, they're very drunk ir high on drugs.
Robert's your father's brother
(UK) Same meaning as Bob's your Uncle - so well known in the UK that this is often
now used in place of the original idiom. This idiom means that something will be
successful: Just tell him that I gave you his name and Bob's your uncle/Robert's your
father's brother- he'll help you.
Rock star
(UK) A rock star is a crack addict, as crack comes in 'rocks'.
Rollicking
If you give someone a rollicking, you reprimand them severely.
Rollie
A rollie is a hand-rollled cigarette.
Rollin' code
(USA) A slang term used by an officer when he is utilizing a code 3 (lights and siren)
response in a police vehicle.
Rookie
A rookie is someone who is new to something or has just joined an organisation.
Rort
(AU) If someone rorts you, they defraud you or rip you off.
Rort
(USA) If someone gets rorted, they consume a lot of drugs or alcohol.
Rouf
(UK) Rouf is four. (It is also written roof- it's backslang, where a word is reversed)
Roust
(USA) If the police harass or beat up people, they roust them.
Rozzer
(UK) 'Rozzer' is a slang term for the police (It can be used in the singular or plural):
They got busted by the rozzers.
Rubber-necking
When drivers slow down to look at an accident or something unusual, they are rubbernecking.
Rubbernecker
Someone who stares inquisitively, especially when there is a problem or commotion,
is a rubbernecker.
Rubblehead
(USA) A rubblehead is an idiot.
Rug
(UK) A rug is a wig.
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(UK) A saddo is a pathetic person.
Safe
If something is safe, it is good, fine, acceptable, etc.
Salad dodger
A salad dodger is an overweight person.
Sally
(USA) A sally is a wimp or a coward.
Sally Ann
(UK) The Sally Ann is the Salvation Army.
Salmon handcuffs
(UK) A man whose wife or partner doesn't allow him to see his mates much, especially
in the pub, is said to be wearing salmon handcuffs.
Samp
A samp is an idiot.
Sandbagging
Sandbagging is pretending that something is more difficult or that you're not very
skillful, especially at a sport, in order to make your opponent bet more money or to
have a better chance of winning in the future.
Sarnie
(UK) A sarnie is a sandwich.
Satiscraptory
(UK) Something that is satiscraptory is adequate, but far from good.
Saturday night fever
Someone who has Saturday night fever is so drunk or drugged-up that they are out of
control.
Saturday night special
A Saturday night special is a cheap handgun.
Savvy
Someone who is savvy knows and understands something and is not easily fooled or
deceived.
Say it, don't spray it
(UK) This is used when someone accidentally spits when they are talking.
Scag
Scag is the drug heroin.
Scalper
(USA) A scalper buys tickets for popular events, like concerts and sports games, then
sells them on at a profit.
Scam
A scam is a dishonest, unfair or illegal scheme to get money from people.
Scaredy cat
A person who is a scaredy cat is a coward.
Schadenfreudegasm
Schadenfreude is a feeling of enjoyment caused by other people's misfortunes, so
schadenfreudegasm is a very intese version of this. (It is a portmanteau
of schadenfreude & orgasm)
Schmeat
Schmeat is artificial meat.
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Schnook
(USA) A schnook is a pathetic or unfortunate person.
Schnozz
A schnozz is a nose, especially a large one.
Schnozzle
A schnozzle is a nose, especially a large one.
Scouser
(UK) A Scouser is a Liverpudlian, a person from Liverpool. The adjective is 'scouse'.
Scran
(UK) Scran is food.
Scratch
(USA) Scratch is money.
Scratcher
A scratcher is someone who does cheap, poor quality tattoos.
Scream at the floor
(USA) Someone who screams at the floor is vomiting violently, usually as a result of
excessive drinking.
Screw
(UK) A screw is a prison guard.
Screw you and a bag of nuts
(USA) A dismissal of someone; a more colorful extension of the simple dismissal
'Screw you.'
Screwed the pooch
(USA) Made a huge mistake, did something stupid (They really screwed the pooch
this time)
Scrilla
(USA) Scrilla is money.
Script kiddie
A script kiddie is someone who wants to be a computer hacker but doesn't know much
about it.
Scrote
An unpleasant young male petty criminal is a scrote. (It is an abbreviation of
'scrotum'.)
Scum
People who are deeply unpleasant and revolting are scum.
Scumster
A scumster is an antisocial troublemaker.
Scunner
(UK) A scunner is a young troublemaker or petty criminal.
Scunnered
(UK) If you're scunnered, you're fed up or sick of something.
Scuzzy
Someone or something that is scuzzy is disgusting or unpleasant. ('Scuzz' is the noun.)
Scuzzy
Something that's scuzzy is dirty or unpleasant.
Selfie
If you take a photograph of yourself to put online, it's a selfie.
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Sexting
Sending sexually explicit messages or photos by mobile phone is sexting.
Shack
(UK) To shack someone is to stab them.
Shackout
(UK) To shackout is to escape or flee.
Shag
(UK) 'Shag' can be used as a verb or noun meaning 'have sex'.
Shan
(Scot) If something's shan, it's rubbish.
Shank
A shank is a knife, especially a homemade one.
Shawty
(USA) A sexy young woman is a shawty.
Shazzel
(USA) Shazzel = stuff, belongings
Shedloads
(UK) Shedloads means a lot, especially of money.
Sheeple
Sheeple are people who follows leaders unquestioningly. (from sheep + people
'Sheople' is an alternative spelling.)
Shenanigans
Shenanigans are bad, dishonest or illegal activities.
Shill
A shill promotes a company or product by pretending that they are an enthusiastic
customer, consumer or client, when they actually work for them or are hired by them
to do it.
Shindig
A shindig is a noisy party
Shipper
A shipper is a writer who uses characters from other people's books and creates
relationships between them. (From 'relationship')
Shit a brick
'Shit a brick' can be said when people are extremely surprised and displeased about
something. If someone shits bricks, they are very scared about something.
Shit hit the fan
When the shit hits the fan, something goes badly wrong and people react angrily.
Shit or get off the pot
This means that you should take action or move on, instead of waiting for something
to happen. Similar to "fish or cut bait".
Shits and giggles
If you didn't do something for shits and giggles, you do it without getting paid: I didn't
work on the public holiday for shits and giggles; I thought I'd get extra pay.
Shiv
To shiv someone is to stab them.
Shivoo
(AU) A shivoo is a party.
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Shoot your mouth off
If someone shoots their mouth off, they talk without thinking or without knowing what
they are talking about.
Shop
(UK) If you shop someone, you report them to the police or authorities.
Shoulder surfing
(USA) If someone chats a person up while looking around to see if there are more
attractive people around, they are shoulder surfing.
Shoulder surfing
Shoulder surfing is standing close enough to someone when they are using a cash
machine in order to learn their PIN.
Shovel shit
If you have to shovel shit, you have to carry out an unpleasant task.
Showboat
Someone who likes to brag or show off like to showboat.
Shrapnel
Shrapnel is a term for annoying numbers of coins.
Shrink
A shrink is a psychiatrist or analyst.
Shrooms
Shrooms are magic mushrooms, psilocybin mushrooms.
Shtenkie
Something disgusting is shtenkie.
Shubs
(UK) A shubs is a party.
Shut your cakehole
(UK) Shut your cakehole is a way of telling someone to shut up.
Shut your pie-hole
(USA) An American way of telling someone to stop talking.
Shwag
Shwag is a name for promotional gifts given away at exhibitions, etc. ('Swag' is the
money or goods that someone steals.)
Shyster
A shyster is an unscrupulous person, especially a lawyer.
Sick
(UK) If something's sick, it's very good.
Sicko
A sicko is somebody who is mentally unbalanced, especially if they are fascinated by
unpleasantness.
Simples
Simples is used to show that something is very easy to understand.
Sitting on the turtle's head
Someone sitting on the turtle's head is desperately in need of the toilet to take a dump.
Six pack
Someone who has a very muscular stomach area where the individual muscles can be
seen has a six pack.
Six packs
(AU) In the northern Australian outback where it is very hot and travel is over rough
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estimate of how many six packs of beer he would drink during the journey.
Sizzurp
(USA) Sizzurp is a drink made with a cough mixture containing promethazine and
codeine, used as a reacreational drug.
Skag
(UK) 'Skag' is a term for the drug heroin.
Skanger
(Irish) A skanger is a woman seen as low class. ('Scanger' is also used.)
Skank
If you skank someone, you get money off them that you shouldn't.
Skank
A woman without much class or style is a skank.
Skeeze
(USA) To skeeze is to have sex.
Skid lid
(UK) A skid lid is a crash helmet.
Skidaddle
To leave, get out
Skin
(UK) A skin is a cigarette paper.
Skipper
The captain of a team or boat, etc, is the skipper. (Sometimes shortened to 'skip'.)
Skirt
'Skirt' is a term used for women, especially when thinking about sex.
Skive
(UK) If you avoid work, you skive, especially by pretending to be ill.
Skivvy
(UK) A skivvy is someone who is expected to do unpleasant, menial jobs and tasks
that no one else wants to do.
Skunk
Skunk is a powerful form of cannabis grown using hydroponics.
Sky pilot
A sky pilot is a priest or vicar.
Slag
(UK) A slag is a petty criminal or an unpleasant person.
Slag
A slag is a sexually promiscuous woman.
Slag tag
A slag tag is a tattoo that attracts male attention on a woman's lower back, around her
bosom.
Slam dunk
A slam dunk is an easy or effortless success.
Slammer
(UK) If someone is in the slammer, they're in prison.
Slap
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(UK) A slaphead is a bald person.
Slapper
A slapper is a promiscuous woman.
Slash
Slash fiction takes characters from well-known books, films, etc, and creates stories
with sexual, especially gay, relationships between them.
Slash
(UK) If someone takes a slash, they urinate.
Slash
A slash movie is a particularly violent one.
Sleb
A sleb is a celebrity; the term is used pejoratively, possibly because it sounds like
'pleb' (someone common, without much taste).
Sledging
In sport, abusing a player to make them angry or to get them to lose their
concentration is sledging.
Sleep with the fishes
Someone who is sleeping with the fishes has died or been killed.
Sleeping policeman
(UK) A sleeping policeman is a speed bump in a road to slow traffic down.
Sleeve
(USA) A sleeve is a hundred dollar bill.
Slicker than snot on a doorknob
If it's slicker than snot on a doorknob, it's slippery (could refer to roads or a person)
Slim Jim
A slim Jim is a tool used to break into cars.
Slush fund
A slush fund is money raised for bribery and corruption.
Slushbox
(USA) Slushbox is automatic transmission in a car.
Slut
A sexually promiscuous woman is a slut.
Smack
'Smack' is a term for the drug heroin.
Smackers
Smackers are dollars or pounds.
Small cigar
A small cigar means a small victory, celebration, credit, etc.
Smart cookie
A smart cookie is a very clever person.
Smarts
(USA) Someone's intelligence or brains are their smarts.
Smashed
If someone's smashed, they are drunk or intoxicated with drugs.
Smirt
People who flirt in smoking areas or when smoking outside their office are smirting. It
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Smishing
Smishing is tricking people into giving their personal details, especially things like
bank or credit card details, by sending them text messages to get them to go to fake
websites.
Snafu
Not used very much these days' but it means 'situation normal all fouled (f****d) up'.
Used to be used a lot in WW2 by the armed forces to describe the usual chaotic state
of the conflict.
Snagger
A snagger tidies up or rectifies shoddy workmanship, especially in construction.
Snark
A sarcastic or snide remark is snark.
Sneak
A sneak is someone who reports on people to the authorities. It can also be used as a
verb 'to sneak'.
Sniff test
If something doesn't pass the sniff test, it smells bad, so a proposition that doesn't pass
the sniff test should be avoided.
Snitch
A snitch is someone who reports on people to the authorities. It can also be used as a
verb 'to snitch'.
Snog
Snogging is kissing passonately.
Snollygoster
A person, especially a politician, who has no principles and just wants to benefit
personally is a snollygoster.
Snork
(UK) To snork is to kiss.
Snort
If people snort a drug, they inhale it into their nostrils.
Snout
(UK) Snout is tobacco.
Snoutcast
(UK) A snoutcast is someone who has to smoke in the street outside their place of
work. It comes from snout (tobacco) + outcast.
Snow job
(USA) If someone does a snow job, they try to deceive people by giving vague and
inaccurate answers. (Tony Snow was White House Press Secretary)
Soccer mom
(USA) A soccer mom is a woman who makes a great effort and spends a lot of time to
help her children play sport. (there are variations like 'hockey mom')
Sook
(AU) A sook is someone who is cowardly or easily frightened.
Sourpuss
A sourpuss is a person who is normally unhappy or gloomy.
Soused
(UK) If someone is soused, they're drunk, especially if they are often drunk.
Spangled
(UK) If you're drunk or high on drugs, you're spangled.
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(UK) If you're drunk or high on drugs, you're spangled.

Spank the monkey
Spank the monkey = masturbate
Spannered
(UK) Someone who's spannered is very drunk or high on drugs.
Spaz
(USA) A spaz is an inept or incompetent person.
Special K
Special K is the recreational drug ketamine.
Speed
Speed is a slang term for amphetamine.
Speedball
A speedball is a mixture of the drugs heroin and cocaine.
Speedfreak
A speedfreak is someone who takes a lot of amphetamines.
Speedfreak
A speedfreak is someone who is crazy about driving and travelling fast.
Sperm father
A sperm father is a a biological father who plays no role in the upbringing of his child.
Spice
Spice is a name for synthetic cannabis.
Spice
(UK) Spice is a name for synthetic cannabis or herbal mixtures that are supposed to
imitate the effects.
Spiv
(UK) A spiv is a person who makes money through dubious or immoral schemes and
is showy in their appearance.
Splay
(USA) To splay is to have sex.
Splay
(USA) Splay is cannabis.
Spliff
(UK) 'Spliff' is a term for a cannabis cigarette.
Split
(UK) If someone splits on you, they report you to an authority for doing something
wrong.
Split
If you split, you leave a place.
Splog
A splog is a spam blog.
Spot
(USA) 'To spot' means 'to lend'.
Spraff
(UK) If someone talks a lot in a meaningless or boring way, they are spraffing.
Spraffer
(UK) A spraffer is a person who talks a lot in a meaningless or tedious way.
Sprog
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A spud is a potato.
Spud
(UK) A spud is an idiot.
Squaddy
(UK) A squaddy is a foot soldier.
Squeeze
Someone's squeeze is their girlfriend or boyfriend.
Stash
Someone's collection of drugs, pornography or something else they want to keep
hidden or secret is their stash.
Stay frosty
(USA) To stay frosty is to stay alert.
Staycation
If you take a 'staycation' you stay at home during your holiday period instead of taking
a trip abroad. The term 'staycation' can mean either staying at your actual home during
your holidays or taking short trips to locations close to home.
Steg
(UK) A steg is an ugly woman.
Stem
(UK) A stem is a homemade prison knife.
Stick a straw in your juice box and suck it!
It means to 'get lost' or 'get a life'.
Sticker
(UK) A sticker is an unsolved crime.
Sticker shock
The feeling of surprise experienced by consumers upon finding unexpectedly high
prices on the price tags (stickers) of products they are considering purchasing.
Stiff
A stiff is a dead person. 'To stiff' can be used meaning 'to kill'.
Stiv
(UK) A stiv is a homemade prison knife.
Stoge
A stoge is a cigarette. It can be used as a verb meaning 'to smoke'.
Stoner
Someone who smokes cannabis is a stoner.
Stooze
If someone gets a credit card and uses the interest free period offered as a way of
borrowing money to invest and get interest on, they are stoozing.
Straight
A straight is a heterosexual. A straight can also be someone who is against fun, parties,
etc.
Street cred
Someone who has street cred is respected by young urban people and has not sold out
or compromised themselves commercially for success. (It comes from 'credibility')
Streetwise
Someone who's streetwise knows all the issues and tricks in life and can't be tricked or
fooled.
Stretch
A period of time spent in prison is a stretch.
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Stunner
A stunner is a beautiful woman. 'Stunna' is an alternative spelling.
Stupid tax
Lotteries are the stupid tax.
Suck it and see
This idiom means that you should try something to find out what happens.
Suck it up
This means that the speaker thinks the listener should simply accept or endure
something bad, upsetting, etc.
Suck off
To suck someone off is to perform fellatio on them.
Sucking diesel
(Irish) If something is going very well, it is sucking diesel.
Sugar daddy
A sugar daddy is a wealthy older man who supports a young woman financially in
exchange for sex.
Suicide blonde
A woman with hair that is badly or strikingly dyed blonde is a suicide blonde.
Swamp donkey
A swamp donkey is an exceptionally ugly woman.
Sweat cobs
(UK) If someone is sweating cobs, they are sweating profusely.
Sweat like a rapist
(UK) If someone is very agitated and perspiring heavily, they are sweating like a
rapist.
Sweet F A
(UK) Sweet F.A. stands for 'Sweet fuck-all' and means either a very small and
unsatisfactory amount or nothing at all. 'Sweet Fanny Adams' is a less vulgar
alternative.
Swing both ways
Someone who swings both ways is bisexual.
Swing your arms
(USA) If you swing your arms, you complain.
Swordsman
A man who is successful at having sex with many women is a swordsman.
Syrup
(USA) Syrup is a drink made with a cough mixture containing promethazine and
codeine and used as a non-medical drug.

T.
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(UK) This means 'Thanks you'.

Ta
(UK) Ta means thanks
Ta muchly
(UK) This means 'Thank you very much'.
Ta-ta
(UK) Ta-ta means goodbye
Tab
(UK) A tab is a cigarette.
Tackle
The male genitals are tackle.
Tailgate
If someone is driving to close behind a car, they are tailgating.
Take a powder
(USA) If someone tells you to take a powder, they are telling you to go away or
disappear.
Take it down a notch
If someone is too noisy, you can tell them to take it down a notch.
Take it to the bank
(USA) A sure thing; synonymous with 'consider it done'
Take it to the house
(USA) If you take it to the house, you score in a game or match.
Take the Browns to the Superbowl
(USA) The idiom means to go to the toilet, in this case, to poop.
Take the grenade
When you go to party and there's an ugly girl among beautiful ones, you take the
grenade if you sacrifice yourself by picking up the ugly girl and leaving your friends
with the more attractive ones.
Take the piss
(UK) If you tease someone or laugh at them, you are taking the piss.
Talk out of your arse
(UK) If someone is talking out of their arse, they are talking rubbish.
Talk out of your ass
(USA) If someone is talking out of their ass, they are talking rubbish.
Talk out of your backside
If you talk out of your backside you are talking rubbish and don't know what you are
talking about.
Talk to the hand
This is a way of saying that you're not listening to someone or not interested in what
they are saying.
Tandoori two step
If you have the tandoori two step, you have diarrhoea.
Tank
If a sports team deliberately loses a game, it tanks.
Tanked up
(UK) If someone is tanked up, they are very drunk.
Tappable
If someone's sexually attractive, they are tappable.
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Tard
A tard is a stupid, unpleasant person. (It is an abbreviation of 'retard'.)
Tart art
Tart art is a tattoo that attracts male attention on a woman's lower back, around her
bosom.
Tax
(UK) When people tax, they steal.
Teef
(UK) If someone teefs something, they steal it.
Texter's thumb
Texter's thumb is the injury that results to the thumb due to constant texting on the cell
phone.
Textual satisfaction
Textual satisfaction is the feeling of satisfaction you get when you realise that you
have a missed call or a new message.
Textually challenged
Someone who is textually challenged finds it difficult to send messages on their cell
phone. For instance, My grandpa is textually challenged
Thang
'Thang' is an alternative for or 'thing'.
That's your tale and I sit on mine
When someone tells you something as the truth and you know otherwise or totally
disbelieve it .
The man
There are two possible meanings here. One would be the positive sense in which
people refer to a friend who has proved helpful: "Thanks for the tip, John. You're the
man!" The second meaning refers negatively to the government, big companies, or
other authority figures: "I can't make rent this month. The man is keeping me down!"
The rabbit died
This is a way of saying that someone is pregnant.
The rounds of the kitchen
(USA) If you get or give the rounds of the kitchen, you give a verbal blast to someone.
The runs
If someone has the runs, they have diarrhoea (diarrhea).
Them's the breaks
(USA) That is the way things are or will turn out.
Thick as a brick
Someone who is as thick as a brick is very stupid indeed.
Thick as pig shit
A derogatory term most often used as a harsh insult to someone's intelligence.
Thick as two short planks
Someone who is thick as two short planks is extremely stupid. 'Thick as a plank' is
also used.
Thick in the head
When someone is thick in the head, he or she is considered very stupid or annoying.
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(USA) This ain't my first rodeo implies that whatever the speaker is doing, they have
done before. Used in general to confirm that the speaker knows what they are doing,
sometimes also used if the speaker feels as though they are being spoken down to.
Throw a seven
(USA) If someone throws a seven they die young.
Tic
(UK) Someone who's tic is attractive.
Tickle
(UK) A tickle is a hint or a display of interest in something.
Tight
(UK) If something's tight, it's unfair.
Tightwad
A tightwad is a mean person, who doesn't like spending money.
Tinfoil hat
Suggestion that someone wears a tinfoil hat is a way of saying that they are paranoid
or believe in conspiracy theories
Tip rat
(AU) A tip rat is a person who reminds you of rats living on garbage dumps.
Tip the teacup
Something that tips the teacup is annoying or irritating.
Tits up
If something has gone tits up, it has gone wrong.
Toerag
(UK) A toerag is a worthless, unpleasant person.
Toff
(UK) A toff is an upper class person, especially a snobbish one.
Toffee
(UK) If something's toffee, it is rubbish or nonsense.
Toffee-nosed
(UK) Someone who is toffee-nosed is a snob and thinks they are superior to others.
Toke
Inhaling marijuana smoke is toking.
Tombstoning
The dangerous act of jumping off cliffs, piers, harbour walls or other high points into
the sea for fun is known as tombstoning.
Tongue sandwich
A tongue sandwich is passionate kissing.
Tonker
(AU) A tonker is a fool or idiot.
Too many ears in the cornfield
If you can't talk about something at the moment because too many people will hear,
there are too many ears in the cornfield.
Tool
A tool is a stupid or irritating person.
Toot
To toot is to snort drugs like cocaine, though it can also be used for smoking cannabis.
Toot your own horn
To "toot your own horn" means to brag or to boast about oneself.
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Top
To top someone is to kill them.
Top banana
The top banana is the star comedian in a Vaudeville show;the boss
Top flat
(UK) Your top flat is your head.
Top whack
(UK) If you have to pay top whack for something, you pay the highest possible price.
Torch
To torch is to set fire to something illegally (arson). It can also be used as a noun for
the person, the arsonist.
Torqued
If you're very drunk or high, you're torqued.
Tosh
If something is tosh, it is rubbish, untrue or unbelievable.
Toss your cookies
(USA) Someone who is feeling ill and on the verge of vomitting warns others that, "I
feel like I'm going to toss my cookies."
Tosser
(UK) A tosser is a useless idiot.
Total
If you total something you destroy or wreck it, especially true of car crashes.
Totes
Totes means totally.
Tout
A ticket tout buys tickets for a popular event and sells them illegally at a much higher
price.
Toyboy
A toyboy is a young man who goes out with an older woman, especially if she is
wealthy.
Toys in the attic
A little bit crazy
Trainspotter
A trainspotter is someone with great knowledge of obscure information, especially
about music.
Tramp stamp
A tramp stamp is a tattoo that attracts male attention on a woman's lower back, around
her bottom.
Trank
A trank is a tranquillizer, especially when taken as a recreational drug.
Trick
A trick is a prostitute's customer.
Trim
(USA) If someone is trimmed, they are killed.
Trim hunt
(USA) If someone goes on a trim hunt, they go out looking for someone to have sex
with.
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newsgroups, etc.
Trolleyed
(UK) If someone is very drunk, they are trolleyed.
Trolleyed
(UK) If someone is very drunk, they are trolleyed.
Trout pout
A person who has had collagen injected into their lips to make them bigger has a trout
pout.
Trouting
(UK) When people are out trouting, they are looking for a sexual partner.
Tuckered out
(USA) If you're tuckered out, you're exhausted.
Turf
An area of a city controlled by a criminal gang is their turf.
Turn on the waterworks
Someone turns on the waterworks if they start crying as a ploy to get something they
want. When someone sees this start to happen they might say "Here come the
waterworks".
Tusty
If something is tusty, it's very good.
Twagging
(UK) Twagging is playing truant (missing school without a good reason).
Twatted
(UK) Someone who's twatted is very drunk or high on drugs.
Tweaker
A tweaker is a meth (methamphetamine) addict.
Twelve-letter word
(USA) People refer to the twelve-letter word to avoid using the word 'motherfucker'.
Twerp
(UK) A twerp is an idiot.
Twig
To twig is to realise or work something out.
Twin
(USA) A twin is a twenty-dollar bag of marijuana.
Twoc
(UK) To twoc is to Take Without Owner's Consent, especially when referring to car
theft. A twocer steals cars.

U.
Uggers
Someone who is uggers is very ugly indeed.
Ugly as sin
Someone who is as ugly as sin is very ugly indeed.
Umpteen
Umpteen means a lot, very many.
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Underwater basketweaving
(USA) Underwater basketweaving is used as a substitute to describe a very obscure or
unknown activity. For example, if someone is going to college and majoring in
underwater basketweaving, chances are the speaker doesn't know what the person is
majoring in, or they are poking fun at the student or his choice of major.
Undorkulate
(USA) If you undorkulate something, you fix it.
Unforch
Unforch = unfortunately
Unhinged
A person who's unhinged is mad or unbalanced.
Up at sparrow's fart
(AU) To wake very early, when only the sparrows are up.
Up for it
(UK) If someone wants to do something, they are up for it.
Up shit creek
If you're up shit creek, you're in serious trouble or about to be. ('Up shit creek without
a paddle' is a forceful alternative.)
Up the stump
(UK) If a woman is up the stump, she is pregnant.
Uphill gardener
(UK) A gay male is an uphill gardener.
Use your noodle
Use your head / brain; think
Useful as tits on a bull
Someone or something that is totally redundant, of no practical value, is as useful as
tits on a bull.
Useless as tits on a boar hog
Absolutely useless

V.
Vache
(USA) If you vache, you relax or chill out, not doing very much.
Vadge
(UK) A woman's vadge is her vagina.
Vagitarian
(UK) A vagitarian is a lesbian.
Vamoose
This means 'let's go' or 'go'. ('Vamose' and 'Vamos' are also used.)
Vamp
A vamp is a seductive woman who uses sexual attraction to get what she wants.
Vamping
Vamping is showing off.
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off.
Vanilla
If something, especiallly sex, is vanilla, it's dull and ordinary.
Vaping
You vape an e-cigarette rather than smoke it.
Vaporware
Vaporware, or vapourware, is computer hardware or software that is announced
publicly, but doesn't get released.
Veggie
Veggie means vegetarian or vegetable.
Venerable
If something's venerable, it's cool and worthy of respect.
Visiting fireman
A visiting fireman is an important visitor or guest.
Vitamin K
Vitamin K is a name for the recreational drug ketamine.

W.
Wack
(USA) Wack means 'rubbish' or 'weird'. As a verb, it can mean 'kill' or 'masturbate'.
Wacko
Someone who is wacko is mad or very eccentric.
Wacky backy
Wacky backy is marijuana. (wacky = mad backy = tobacco)
Wadded
(UK) If someone is wadded, they have a lot of money on them. ('Wadded up' is also
used.)
Wadge
A bundle of money
WAG
(UK) A WAG is an excessively dressed trophy female with ludicrously expensive
tastes. (It comes from W'ives And Girlfriends' used to describe British footballers'
trophy partners.)
Wally
A wally is an idiot.
Walmart
(USA) If something is walmart, it is cheap but of poor quality.
Wannabe
A wannabe is someone who aspires to a position, etc, who 'wants to be' that.
Wappy
Someone who's wappy is unpredictable and a bit crazy.
Warez
Pirated or illegally copied software and other digital files like films, ect, are known as
warez, which is a corrupted spelling of 'wares'.
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Waste
If someone gets wasted, they are killed.
Wasted
If someone is wasted, they are very high on drugs or very drunk.
Wax
(USA) To wax is to kill.
Wazz
(UK) If someone goes for a wazz, they go to the toilet to urinate.
Wedge
(UK) A wedge is a large quantity of cash.
Wee
To wee is to urinate, often used with children, so not impolite.
Weed
Weed is cannabis when smoked in leaf form.
Went to shit and the hogs ate them
(USA) If someone is missing and you don't know where they've gone, they went out to
shit and the hogs ate them.
Wet
(UK) A wet is a Conservative who is more liberal than his or her hard-line colleagues.
Wet the baby's head
If you celebrate the birth of a child by drinking alcohol, you are wetting the baby's
head.
Wetback
(USA) A wetback is an illegal immigrant
Which team does someone bat for?
(UK) This is a way of asking about someone's sexual orientation.
White hat
A person who uses their computer skills ethically is a white hat.
Whole enchilada
(USA) If someone does the whole enchilada, they do everything required- it's every
part of something together.
Wick
(UK) If something's wick, it's very good. (from 'wicked')
Wicked
(UK) If something is wicked, it is excellent.
Wide
If something's wide, it is unfair.
Wide-on
If a woman has a wide-on, she is sexually attracted to someone.
Wideboy
(UK) A wideboy, or wide-boy, is an overdressed petty criminal.
Wiener
(USA) A wiener is a penis.
Wifebeater
(UK) Wifebeater is strong lager, especially Stella Artois, that supposedly makes
people drunk and aggressive.
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This means that you have understood what was said and will do what is necessary. (It
comes from 'will comply')
Willy-nilly
If things are done willy-nilly, they are done without any plan or organisation.
Windbag
A windbag is someone who talks too much.
Windowlicker
A windowlicker is someone with serious learning or behavioural problems.
Wingnut
A wingnut has opinions regarded as extreme, very conservative or ridiculous.
Wired
(UK) If someone is wired, they are high on drugs, intoxicated or stressed.
Wirer
(UK) A wirer is a pickpocket.
Wonga
(UK) Wonga is money.
Wonk
A wonk is someone who studies excessively.
Wood
If a man has wood or a woody, his penis is erect.
Worrywart
If you are a worrywart, you worry a lot. ('Worry wart' is also used.)
Wrap
A wrap is a small quantity of a drug wrapped in paper. As a verb, it is used to mean
making a joint.
Wrap rage
The anger that you sometimes feel trying to unwrap or open packaging is called wrap
rage.

X.
XTC
(UK) XTC is a term for the drug ecstasy, named after a band from the 1970s.
XYZ
eXamine Your Zipper - a way to tell someone their zipper is open.

Y.
Yinz
(USA) Yinz is a plural form of 'you'.
Yo-man
(UK) Someone who wants a very cheap tattoo is a yo-man. ("Yo, man, what can you
do for twenty pounds?")
Yob
(UK) A yob is a hooligan, an anti-social young person.
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Colloquial- you can be sure of that,certainly: 'Would you consider taking legal
action?''You bet (I would)!'
You bet your boots
A way of saying yes that sounds enthusiastic or confident
You can't polish a turd
You can't make something better than its maximum potential
You can't shine shit
You can't improve what's inherently bad.
You got hands like feet
If someone has hands like feet, it means they can't catch things.
You snooze, you lose
If you don't act, you will miss an opportunity
You're history
If you're history, you are in a lot of trouble or finished in a job, organisation, etc.
Your ass is grass
This means that you're in big trouble.

Z.
Zackly
Zackly means exactly.
Zeds
(UK) If you need to get some zeds, you need to sleep. (derived from the ZZZZZ used
in cartoons to show someone is asleep)
Zib
Zib means penis. (derived from Arabic)
Zilch
'Zilch' means nothing or zero.
Zit
A zit is a spot or other skin blemish.
Zombie
A zombie is a computer that has been hijacked for use by criminals.
Zombie bank
A zombie bank is a bank that is economically worthless and is either supported by
government handouts or isn't lending money.
Zonked
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A 419 fraud is one of those emails claiming to be a relative of a dead leader of a
developing country with millions in gold or dollars, who want to share this with you as
long as you give them all your bank account details so that they can rob you.
420
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