Slang and uncoventional english part 15 pps
Slang and uncoventional english part 15 pps
... BOSSY-BOOTS, ‘lazy-boots’, SLY-BOOTS and ‘smooth-boots’ UK, 159 9 boots and all adverb enthusiastically, in a totally committed way AUSTRALIA, 1953 boots and socks noun syphilis; hence any sexually ... to study US, 1968. 2 to realise; to see and understand UK, 1970. 3 to assume something UK, 1999. 4 to depart, usually hurriedly US, 1974. < book a party of two to arrange for oral s...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 3 ppsx
... i n formal and dignified writing and in professional speaking, a vivid and extensive slang is perhaps preferable to a jejune and meagre vocabulary of standard English; on the other hand, it will ... cliché’s and long-windedness. 7 To enrich the language. 8 To give solidity and concreteness to the abstract and the idealistic, and nearness to the Observations on slang and...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 13 pps
... between one person and multiple partners, consensual or not, heterosexual or homosexual NEW ZEALAND, 1998 block-rockin’ adjective expressive of greatness with regard to hip-hop and club culture. ... arespiratorUS, 1994. 4 in a jazz band, a soloist US, 1960. 5 a handkerchief US, 1960. 6 a marijuana smoker US, 1949. 7 a party US, 2001. 8 a pistol US, 1976. 9 in hot rodding and drag racing...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 21 ppsx
... who carefully hone their craft US, 1945 cat and class noun cataloguing and classification. Librarians’ use UK, 1984 cat and mouse noun a house. Rhyming slang UK, 1857 catapult noun in the language ... TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1956. < catch no ball to fail to understand SINGAPORE, 2002. < catch on the flipper; catch on the (old) flip-flop to make contact on your return. Citizens’ b...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 37 pps
... of a band TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1990. 3 the mid-boat rowers in an eight-person racing shell US, 1949 England noun < go to England to have a baby in secret TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO , 1960 English ... known as ‘ex’s’, ‘exs’ and ‘x’s’ UK, 1864. 2 six; in betting, odds of 6–1. Backslang. Also variant ‘exis’ UK, 1951 exes and a half noun in betting, odds of 13–2. In bookmaker slang EXES i...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 41 ppsx
... (a horse) US, 1882 fork and knife noun 1 life. Rhyming slang, generally used in the phrases ‘not on your fork and knife’ and ‘never in your fork and knife’ UK, 1934. 2 a wife. Rhyming slang UK, 1937 forked ... on NEW ZEALAND, 1905. 2 to slaughter a horse for fox food CANADA, 1980 fox and badger noun the penis. Rhyming slang for TAD GER UK, 2003 fo x and hound noun a round of...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 48 pps
... NEW ZEALAND, 1998. 2 expert AUSTRALIA, 1916 gun and bomb noun a condom. Rhyming slang; the plural is ‘guns and bombs’ UK, 2003 gun and rifle club noun an inner-city hospital’s casualty department US, ... noun 8see: HALF-JACK hale and hearty adjective a party. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 Hale and Pace; hale noun the face. Rhyming slang, from comedy double act Gareth Hale and Norman...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 62 pps
... heroin and cocaine UK, 2002 love and kisses noun a wife. Rhyming slang for MISSUS UK, 1992 love and marriage noun a carriage. Rhyming slang, possibly acquired from the 1955 song ‘Love and Marriage’, ... lyrics by Sammy Cahn: ‘Love and marriage, love and marriage / Go together like a horse and carriage’ UK, 1992 love an romancin noun dancing. Glasgow rhyming slang UK: SCOTLA...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 65 pps
... person. Rhyming slang for SNIDE, informed by rhyming slang JEKYLL AND HYDE (two- faced) and the character of Mr Hyde in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde UK, ... be great and white (and you can have ‘a whale of a time’?) UK, 2001. < on the Moby Dick; on the moby on sick leave. Rhyming slang UK, 1992 Moby Dick; moby adjective sick. Rhyming sl...
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Slang and uncoventional english part 72 pps
... party animal noun a person dedicated to making merry and having a good time. A creature born of the 1990s US, 1997 party central noun an apartment or house where parties are frequently ... have a ‘party hat on’ US, 1976. 2 acondomUS, 1989 party hearty verb to party in a diligent fashion US, 1979 party lights noun the coloured, flashing lights on top of a police car US, 1992 party ... Origin...
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